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The toolkit is designed to help local municipalities understand and negotiate payment-in-lieu-of taxes agreements with solar developers.

The state’s Public Utility Commission froze the program on July 14, delaying processing until at least September and putting hundreds of applications on ice.

This quarter’s report on policies and rate design that affect distributed solar showed many of the same themes as previous reports, but also a glacial shift in approach.

San Diego is looking beyond batteries for solutions to match supply and demand of electricity as solar penetrations increase.

The new regulation, the first of its kind outside of California, mandates 2.75 kW of solar for every 1000 square feet on new homes, as well as those that increase their square footage by 75% or more.

This will be the first plant of its size in the state, which has had a negligible solar market to date.

The power company says it aims to better understand the siting, installation, and operational requirements of commercial and industrial energy storage systems.

The company says that the plants will begin construction later this summer, with plans to complete the 6.8 MW of solar by the end of 2017.

Community Solar is coming at a time of PV, especially residential, market uncertainty. So far the United States is a big enough sandbox for both markets to play in.

The renewables arm of the French energy giant has bought the Switch Station 1 and Switch Station 2 projects for an undisclosed sum.