Also on the rise: Clean Power Alliance approves PPAs for hundreds of megawatts of solar and storage, and Distributed Solar Development buys a solar array that serves an oilfield’s operations.

Assembly Bill 1139 was panned by solar and clean-energy advocates and fell short on two votes to advance. It could be reintroduced in January, however.

Also on the rise: Intel will work with EIC to develop long-term energy storage approaches for data centers, and while 2020 was a downer for most of us, renewables did very well.

The delayed auction produced a price of $50/MW-day for much of the PJM footprint and saw an increase in cleared capacity for solar and wind generation.

Also on the rise: An anti-solar bill fails a California Assembly vote, meet our new Associate Editor, a green hydrogen project gets more investment, and a blue hydrogen venture could come to a troubled synfuels plant.

The 250 MW/1,000 MWh project will draw and store existing surplus energy during off-peak periods and also provide grid balancing services and reduce the need for renewable curtailment.

Job moves in solar, storage, cleantech, utilities, and energy transition finance.

ECP earlier invested in Sunnova, and has worked across the fossil and clean energy sectors.

Also on the rise: Rosendin wins a contract to design and build a $700 million solar project, Stem will support a Colorado energy storage project, a brownfield solar array enters service, Sunnova expands to nine new states, and more EV charging stations are headed to New Mexico.

Also on the rise: a report highlights long-duration storage challenges, Canadian Solar to sell shares to fund its energy storage business, a Houston office block will sprout rooftop PV, and an Oregon bill expands EV access.