Twin bills show Maine isn’t messing around with solar anymore
Significant legislative progress has been made on both LD 1494 and LD 1711, bills which look to increase the state’s RPS to 80% by 2030 and boost solar deployment, respectively. Just months into her first term, Governor Janet Mills is showing she’s serious about solar.
Powerful 100% renewable energy plan drafted in New Jersey
The New Jersey Board of Public Utilities has released its Draft 2019 Energy Master Plan, a rare mix of ambitious policy with an immediate guideline on how to hit those high marks.
New Hampshire’s RPS bill would supercharge solar
An amendment has passed the New Hampshire Senate, one which look to increase the amount of solar required in utilities’ electricity portfolios ninefold by 2025.
$37 for new solar in Vermont, BOfA to build 60 projects, module pricing stable – more!: pvMB 6/7/19
Put your car on cruise and lay back ’cause this is summertime, but Idaho Power is attacking net metering, while Fellowship Energy is winning a prize, Gillibrand is backing a carbon plan, and more!
Hannon Armstrong jumps into community solar, SRP gives emissions the boot: pvMB 6/6/19
Good morning and welcome to today’s edition of the pvMB. This morning, we’ll be looking at the Sunpower system at a “destination” Porsche dealership, PacificCorp installing a solar + storage sytem in lieu of wires for Rocky Mountain Power, Laura Olton’s appointment to head the Rhode Island Public Utilities Commission and more!
Green New Deal passes Maine House
The workforce development bill has been stripped of its 80% by 2040 renewable mandate, so is the policy really all it’s cracked up to be?
Solar coming to Baltimore County govt., North Carolina utility Commission’s new chair: pvMB 6/5/19
Hello and welcome to your Hump Day MB, where we’ll be looking at the potential solving of LID, LevelTEn Energy raising $20.5 million in funding, the verification of CAISO as a reliability coordinator and much more!
Scaled-back energy bill signed in MN, stable module pricing, more! : pvMB 6/3/19
Happy Monday and welcome to the pvMB! Today we bring you a solar medical bus, solar and copper, Google’s desire to watch ALL power plants from space, and Clarksville going 100% solar, as the first 100% city in Arkansas!
To be, or not to be – a solar facility or a utility?
Iowa solar contractor Eagle Point Solar is suing Wisconsin utility WE Energies for blocking its solar lease with the City of Milwaukee, stating that it would make the contractor an electric utility. The contractor contends that a private agreement does not denote public sale of electricity.
Duke to decommission a nuke, solar coming to the Centre County jail: pvMB 5/30/19
Hello and welcome to your Thursday pvMB, live from day two of Solar Power Southeast today, along with the aforementioned, we’ll be checking out the Q1 accomplishments of Peak Electric.
