Vermont deploys its first municipally owned solar farms
The Green Mountain State cities of Stowe and Hyde Park have installed the state’s first two community-solar projects owned by the towns themselves
EnergySage wisely enters community solar
The solar market’s leading online marketplace moves beyond residential solar to benefit from a market expected to encompass have of distributed PV installations by 2020
Solar+storage cuts Vermont utility grid charge by $200,000
A recently completed solar+storage project at Green Mountain Power’s Stafford Hill Solar Farm project shaved enough August peak energy use that Green Mountain Power is saving $200,000 from its annual bill from the New England grid operator.
NRG puts 15 MW-AC of community solar online at Trappist Monastery
The 10 projects at the St. Joseph’s Abbey in Central Massachusetts bring together tradition and clean technology.
Sonoma’s SOMO village community expands to 3 MW/1MW solar + storage
SOMO Village, a $1 billion mixed-use community in Rohnert Park, CA., is adding another 2,500 solar panels plus storage to reach a new total of 3.1 MW of PV; this third PV expansion is being supplied by REC Solar, along with an initial 1 MW of storage supplied by Green Charge.
Baptists will spread the solar gospel
Through a partnership with Geostellar and Together, the Progressive National Baptist Convention will offer community solar programs to communities where their churches are
Nexamp grows community solar in Massachusetts
The developer and EPC has completed 5 MW-DC of community solar in the last week, and will have nearly 35 MW built by the end of 2016.
Community choice aggregator signs PPA with First Solar for 40 MW-AC
The contract with MCE is the first time that First Solar has sold power to a community choice aggregator.
New York regulators propose to slowly transition C&I, community solar off of net metering
Under the recommendations by New York PSC staff for valuation of DER, residential solar would remain on net metering while commercial and community solar would slowly transfer to a new methodology.
The eyes have it
Conspicuous solar: Getting the public to embrace solar energy has never been a straightforward task, but as the technology moves past its awkward teen phase, some genuinely impressive and innovative adaptations of solar PV are beginning to turn heads.
