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The California utility is working with seven developers to build the plants throughout its service area to fuel its pooled-resource solar program.

The integrated power company joins the Minnesota solar revolution by completing seven community solar power plants, serving more than 1,000 Minnesota residents, as well as more than a dozen large Minnesota businesses and municipalities

After languishing for years as a state that refused to take full advantage of its solar potential, the Cavalier State is rushing headlong into a future powered by the sun.

Minnesota installed 203 MW-DC of solar during the first quarter, adding to 207 MW deployed in 2016. The state is expecting to reach more than 800 MW of installed capacity by the end of this year.

Despite a challenging financial environment, NRG continues its solar expansion, including an increasing presence in community solar.

SEPA’s annual utility list shows utilities in North Carolina, Iowa and Utah among the top 3 in its lists for solar installed on an absolute and per-customer basis. The organization also published new lists of the top utilities for storage deployment.

A new report finds that the nation’s capital has the ability to host up to 2.5 GW of rooftop solar potential and looks at ways to reach that potential.

Demand Energy’s project at the Marcus Garvey Village in Brooklyn is the city’s first approval of lithium-ion batteries for a multifamily site.

Over the next two years, a backlog of community solar projects, driven by a desire to be grandfathered under more generous net-metering rates, will allow more than six times the megawattage already installed in the state to be completed.