Arizona’s largest solar project for a school district goes online
The project consists of over 73,000 photovoltaic panels across 82 Tucson Unified School
District school campuses and support facilities, and will provide the district with 47% of its electricity needs.
Community solar for a dime in Minnesota
Minnesota regulators have approved a 1.5¢/kWh incentive for residential customers of “solar gardens”, as they seek to boost the residential to commercial customer wattage ratio from the current 1:9.
Peninsula Clean Energy goes big time with 200 MW-AC solar project
Clēnera broke ground on the Wright Solar Park today, the largest solar project to date to contract entirely with a Community Choice Aggregator. This comes as CCAs face new regulatory challenges.
New York to invest (another) $40 million in energy storage deployment
The investment comes as part of Governor Cuomo’s ambitious state mandate of 1,500 MW of energy storage by 2025, in hopes of shifting generation to match demand.
Constellation dives deeper in California’s C&I market with PFMG acquisition
The Exelon subsidiary buying up PFMG follows on a long history of collaboration between the two companies.
Duke forgets to bring the sauce to the energy storage BBQ
Duke Energy has announced plans to invest $500 million to build 300 MWh of energy storage in the Carolinas over the next eight years, which breaks down to an average of 37.5 MWh per year.
Hawaii’s march to 100% adds 260 MW solar + 1 GWh storage
Hawaii’s investor-owned utilities are in negotiations with developers to build seven solar projects across three islands.
The shift is on: CPS Energy breaks ground on its first storage + solar project in Texas
The unique project will match Texas’ largest previous battery storage project to address the difference between peak generation and peak demand.
Best practices for building residential solar power and market confidence
SEIA has released an update to its residential solar best practices guidelines. The guide’s purpose is to build trust in public observers of the solar market, and can be used to educate detail-oriented customers.
Michigan resumes PURPA in Consumers Energy territory
With state regulators settling on conditions for PURPA contracts after a 10-month suspension, SEIA says that the state’s solar market can now move forward. However, the devil may still be in details yet to come.
