Tim Sylvia
Arizona’s largest solar project for a school district goes online
The project consists of over 73,000 photovoltaic panels across 82 Tucson Unified School
District school campuses and support facilities, and will provide the district with 47% of its electricity needs.
New York to invest (another) $40 million in energy storage deployment
The investment comes as part of Governor Cuomo’s ambitious state mandate of 1,500 MW of energy storage by 2025, in hopes of shifting generation to match demand.
The shift is on: CPS Energy breaks ground on its first storage + solar project in Texas
The unique project will match Texas’ largest previous battery storage project to address the difference between peak generation and peak demand.
Fort Collins, Colorado to go 100% renewable by 2030
The city becomes the 9th in Colorado to adopt a 100% renewable energy transition mandate.
University of Richmond to match energy usage with solar generation
The newly-announced facility in Spotsylvania County is the first step in a bigger 500 MW project, planned by sPower to be the largest on the East Coast.
Nautilus acquires 6.6 MW community solar project in Prince George’s County
The project on several sites on a landfill will become the second made available to community solar customers of PEPCO’s Maryland service area.
EnergySage finds $236 million tax on solar due to Section 201 tariffs
The online solar marketplace describes the tariffs as a tax on solar, and notes that both the finding of injury and the tariffs themselves drove up prices.
300 MW solar plant planned outside Columbus, Ohio
Hecate Energy’s project dwarfs the state’s entire installed capacity so far. If approved, this and a handful of large projects proposed would skyrocket Ohio up the U.S. rankings for installed capacity.
EDF Renewables acquires 50% stake in EnterSolar
The acquisition will serve as a marriage between EDF’s established solar+storage expertise and EnterSolar’s history of C&I project development.
Unprecedented landfill solar project completed in Maryland
An 18 MW project developed by Building Energy has turned otherwise unusable land into enough generation to power 12% of the city of Annapolis.
