sonnen steals top Tesla executive
The German energy-storage company hired the highest-ranking North American sales manager from Tesla to spearhead its U.S. expansion plans
Utah utility’s rate proposal sparks passionate public backlash
Rocky Mountain Power’s new rate structure, which goes before the public service commission today, would charge new solar customers fees to cover a mythical cost-shift — inviting public scrutiny of what it sees as the utility’s attack on solar energy
NRDC report says U.S. clean-energy transition unstoppable
Renewable-energy sources now cost less than fossil-fuel ones in many places, and consumers are voting with their wallets
New Jersey extends it Solar For All program
The approval allows the Public Service Electric and Gas Co. (PSE&G) to invest another $80 million over the next three years to transform the state’s landfills and brownfields into solar farms
Vermont deploys its first municipally owned solar farms
The Green Mountain State cities of Stowe and Hyde Park have installed the state’s first two community-solar projects owned by the towns themselves
Environment America issues Block The Sun report
Despite solar’s growing role in electricity production in the United States, it often finds itself under attack by utilities threatened by its growth. A new report outlines strategies to fend off these attacks and keep the solar industry expanding
SolarCity move shows Florida is open for business
In the wake of two pro-solar voter decisions this year, the country’s most well-known residential solar installer has swooped in to capitalize on the state’s suddenly pro-solar climate
Sale of Verengo assets clears another hurdle
Since the company received only one bid for its more than 20,000 installed systems, the sale of them to Crius Energy is set to move forward
Some relief in sight? Firms create fund to alleviate distributed C&I backlog
Empower Energies combines its expertise with project operator WGL Energy Systems for the next two years to provide much-needed funding for an underserved market
HECO sees significant uptick in self-supply applications
After protracted wrangling over solar adoption in Honolulu, the state’s citizens are taking matters into their own hands — joining a self-supply program that could show the way to NEM 2.0
