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Study of 100,000 arrays finds proactive O&M preferable

The US National Renewable Energy Laboratory examined five-year data to observe the most common system failure points and how to prevent them. Researchers considered residential, commercial and utility scale plants and found interesting results. While failures cannot be avoided completely, a key takeaway was that close monitoring and timely repair can effectively mitigate the financial effects of failures.

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Morning Brief: Rare Utah earthquake knocks out power to 55,000

Rocky Mountain Power must respond to a natural disaster while social distancing. Plus, New York is good, but NIMBY about solar.

Morning Brief: Bloom Energy shares fall drastically, 212 MW coming to Knoxville

Also in the brief: Brookfield Renewable Partners and TerraForm Power are set to become one, Diversified Communications acquires Energy Storage North America, 4.3 MW have been proposed in Ellsworth, Maine and more.

The good news: The US added 13.3 GW of solar in 2019, beating wind and gas in new capacity

You know the bad news. Here are five takeaways from the pre-COVID-19 U.S. solar industry. As for how the coronavirus will impact 2020 foreacasts, supply chains, component costs and project timelines, stay safe and stay tuned.

Avalon and redT unite in $70 million merger of vanadium redox flow battery startups

Two vanadium redox startups join to take on the $0 billion flow-battery market.

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SunPower to sell 11 MW of capacity in New England’s grid

SunPower has joined Sunrun in committing to sell capacity to the New England grid by aggregating household solar installations.

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Morning Brief: TVA solicits 200 MW of renewables, Sungrow supplies the Wright project

Also in the brief: 14 MW approved in Maine, 20 MW approved in Indiana, a molten aluminum thermal energy storage system and more.

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Tesla claims its New York factory built 4 MW of solar roof tiles last week, ‘enough for 1,000 homes’

Although every box of shingles we examined came from Changzhou, China, not the factory in New York.

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Boralex bursts into the US market with 180 MW solar portfolio

The global renewable energy developer’s first foray into the American market will come via a four-project portfolio, developed in response to a NYSERDA renewable generation solicitation.

Morning Brief: Reporting from Shanghai on implications of the outbreak on the solar supply chain

Also in the brief: Enphase ships storage; homeless encampments using secondhand solar; big batteries.

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