Cost and prices

Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory’s most recent report, Advancing Equity in Utility Regulation, tackles the idea that that utilities, regulators, and stakeholders need to prioritize energy equity in the deployment of clean energy technologies and resources.

Supply chain disruptions, spiking commodities costs, land use permitting uncertainties, and overwhelmed interconnection queues are driving up PPA costs and making supply scarce, but new buyers could bring innovative solutions to alleviate this stress in 2022.

Heliene is developing the solar integrated greenhouse market via multiple angles – integrating standard panels into structures while also developing “quantum dot” panels that shift the photon wavelength away from crop damaging UV, and into the orange and red wavelengths that plants crave.

Mosaic surpasses $6 billion in loans for residential solar installations and sustainable home improvements

FTC Solar’s Chief Technology Officer outlines how large-format, high-wattage modules and autonomous systems can drive down the levelized cost of energy of utility-scale solar power.

In a change from previous years’ reports, however, balance of systems costs have increased or remained flat across sectors in 2021.

The decade-old charge is a thing of the past after regulators agreed that solar customers pay their fair share of grid costs.

The new rates will help to support the expansion of two of the utility’s prominent solar programs, 30-by-30 and the SolarTogether community solar initiative.

More than $200 million in equipment will be sold as Tesla plans to ramp up and expand operations at a Buffalo manufacturing facility.

PPA prices have been rising steadily since the end of last year and, according to solar developers, interconnection delays, permitting challenges, and supply chain constraints are likely to keep them high.