Xcel plays the waiting game
The utility’s long-term plan for Minnesota shows that it plans to delay building any large-scale solar for six years, and to kill the state’s distributed solar market in the interim.
NV Energy faces a fine, MiaSolé’s world record solar efficiency: pvMB 7/10/19
Welcome one and all to your Hump Day pvMB, where today we’ll be looking at a solar on a really cool low income housing project for veterans, California Senators calling for solar + storage inclusion in wildfire bills, a data center builder breaking into solar and more!
Jekyll and Hyde utility seeks solar retribution
Florida’s largest electricity utility sought to exclude those who were politically active for consumer-owned solar from an upcoming community solar program. It’s not a good look for the state’s largest utility, or parent company NextEra, the nation’s largest wind and solar developer.
ENGIE invests in Conti family
Development giant ENGIE has purchased EPC specialist Conti Corporation and its affiliates Indicon Corporation, Ion Electric, and McGilvray Mechanical.
Women in Power, solar cell pricing down, solar+bird+fire=bad: pvMB 6/28/19
The sun is up, summer is here and PG&E is still paying Topaz, LONGi is hiring in the Bay Area, and Common Energy is installing in today’s pvMB!
Omnidian finishes series A, Turtle tackles storage: pvMB 6/26/19
Hello one and all and welcome to your Wednesday pvMB. Today we’ll be taking a look at ENGIE’s 2 MW battery at the San Diego Airport, Standard solar’s acquisition of a project in Vermont, the solar education efforts of an Ohio paper and more!
#Solar100’s Brian Cassutt: The Kawhi Leonard of Solar
In this #Solar100 Interview, Richard Matsui, Founder & CEO of kWh Analytics, speaks with Brian Cassutt, CFO of AES Distributed Energy.
Vivint’s $100 million deal, Sunpower’s trade secrets suit: pvMB 6/24/19
Hello and welcome one and all to the start of the week and this Monday’s pvMB. Today we’ll be looking at the polling saying 42% of Dems prefer plans to decarbonize by 2030, the cost of energy storage in New Jersey, Duke’s North Rosamond power plant going on-line and more!
Mexico reaches 4 GW milestone
Of the nation’s installed operational PV capacity, 3,364 MW is in the form of solar parks while distributed generation contributes around 693 MW.
Customer acquisition challenges in community solar: An interview with Richard Keiser
In this interview, Common Energy CEO Richard Keiser talks about the challenges of customer acquisition for community solar developers, and how service providers like his company can fill the gaps.
