Tim Sylvia
Microsoft is on a solar shopping spree
The tech giant has signed a power contract for the output of First Solar’s 150 MWac Sun Streams 2 solar plant, bringing its total procurement of solar to nearly 500 MW – but none of these projects have been completed yet.
Batteries to sell into ISO-NE wholesale market, Chattanooga’s 100% solar-powered airport: pvMB 07/31/19
Hello and welcome to today’s pvMB. Sunrun is bringing its solar + storage solution to Dallas and Houston, Elon Musk hopes that Solar Roof production will hit 1K per week, 63% of poll respondents think the Green New Deal is a “good idea”, and more!
CNN to host town hall on the climate crisis, Solar microgrid saves wedding: pvMB 7/30/19
Hello all of you wonderful people and welcome to the pvMB. Today we’ve got our eyes on Georgia Power’s solar+storage Smart Neighborhood, a scathing op-ed regarding HB 6 and more!
Solar brings in the big bucks for local governments
A new report from North Carolina Sustainable Energy Association shows the dramatic increase in tax revenue that solar projects bring. And for the future of development, this money talks, loudly.
California gas plant to be re-powered with batteries + solar
For the second time in a month a fossil fuel-fired power plant in California is set to be replaced by a battery powered by a solar, including distributed solar. A small portion of the former plant will be retained.
The next two weeks will determine PG&E’s future
A federal judge has given California officials until August 7 to review third-party proposals for the revival, reconstruction and potential takeover of Pacific Gas And Electric. The maligned utility filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in January, facing roughly $30 billion in wildfire-related insurance claims.
Georgia keeps the utility solar train rolling
Ground has officially broken on NextEra Energy Resources’ Quitman Solar facility in Brooks County, Georgia, but as exciting as this is, the fact still stands that the only solar Georgia knows is utility.
The billion-dollar battery boom
Corporations are buying up batteries and investing in their companies like it’s going out of style.
The people vs. HB 6, Con Edison reaches 250 MW installed: pvMB 7/25/19
Two things are absolutley certain right now. It’s Thursday and you’re reading the pvMB. Today we’ll be looking at Independent developers dominating the NC solar auction, Sunnova announcing share prices, the very cool LightSail 2 spacecraft and more!
Target defends its crown as largest adopter of on-site corporate solar power
The top on-site home for corporate solar remains the same in SEIA’s 2018 Solar Means Business Report, but new challengers have entered, as the report includes off-site solar for the first time.
