EDF to bring 350 MW to NY, New Hampshire’s new RPS, maybe: pvMB 7/8/19
Hello everybody and welcome back from your long 4th of July weekend, if you had one. Today we’re back with the pvMB and we’ll be looking at $55 million for Long Island energy storage, storage replacing peakers in New York, Direct Solar getting in the Texas football booster game and more!
Sunnova to go public
The company will list stock on the NYSE under the symbol NOVA. Sunnova’s prospectus filing reveals information about the company’s finances and operation.
Duke Energy hits 1 GW owned solar, 74.5 MW coming to Escambia: pvMB 7/3/19
Hello and welcome to your July 3rd pvMB! Today we’ll be tackling Bloom Energy going hydrogen, a jet fuel burning plant shutdown in Oakland, RPCS’ safe harbor strategy for ITC stepdown and more. Enjoy your holiday!
Battery scientists make a cracking observation
Scientists at the Georgia Institute of Technology in the U.S. used x-ray imaging to observe cracks forming in a solid state lithium battery, a discovery they say changes the understanding of performance of solid state batteries and which could lead to more durable systems.
Bridging the gap: Mariah Lynne of Good Steward on farming and solar
In this interview Good Steward CEO Mariah Lynne talks about what solar projects can mean for farmers and rural communities as a whole, and how to get everyone on the same page when projects are being developed.
Solar power’s great land use responsibility
Solar developer Silicon Ranch has launched its Regenerative Energy program, which takes a broader view of climate and land use issues in utility scale solar construction.
Coal closures open door for solar in Texas, New Mexico
Hundreds of megawatts of coal-fired generation will soon be going off-line for good. And what’s even better is that these plants are set to be replaced with somewhere in the ballpark of 800 MW of solar.
SEIA’s solar permit software, corporate turnover typhoon: pvMB 7/2/19
Hello everybody and welcome to today’s edition of the pvMB. This morning we’ll be looking at the change of CEOs at El Paso Electric, Enel Green Power selling off 65 MW of the Roadrunner project, the Cape Anne solar campaign and more!
Florida’s stunted customer owned solar grows 76% in 2018
The State of Florida deployed 113 MWac of net metered, customer owned solar power across 13,705 installations last year – 68% more installations and 76% more watts than the prior year.
ENGIE invests in Conti family
Development giant ENGIE has purchased EPC specialist Conti Corporation and its affiliates Indicon Corporation, Ion Electric, and McGilvray Mechanical.
