Arizona commissioner calls for doubling of state’s renewable energy mandate
ACC Chair Little has proposed requiring 30% renewable energy by 2030, scrapping the DG carve-out and potentially adding incentives for energy storage.
Solar in the Big Apple
New York City should be great for solar PV. But it isn’t. Despite policy leadership from the state, local installers are facing crippling bureaucratic challenges, and many have chosen to build rooftop solar elsewhere.
El Paso Electric drops solar demand charge in settlement
While the solar-specific charge was dropped as part of a settlement, the utility will increase fixed charges on its Texas customers.
AES to supply, integrate 37.5 MW of battery systems for SDG&E
The San Diego utility says that the battery systems will allow it to improve reliability and integrate higher levels of renewables. AES plans to finish the systems by the end of January 2017.
Third-party solar moves forward with changes to Rhode Island’s net metering rules
National Grid has filed to change the net metering rules in line with an earlier legislation, making net metering in the state even better than before.
More troubles: the pv magazine USA weekly news digest
This was another difficult week in the U.S. solar industry, with layoffs at SolarCity and the carving up of SunEdison’s empire, but also saw progress in policy and technology.
NRG move to acquire SunEdison assets moves forward, expands to DG
A bankruptcy court has approved the expedited auction of SunEdison projects with NRG as the “stalking horse” bidder, and NRG has separately announced the purchase of 26 C&I solar projects.
Canadian Solar beats shipment and revenue guidance for Q2
The Chinese-Canadian solar firm shipped 1,290 MW of modules and posted net revenue of $805.9 million in the second quarter, with nearly half of its sales to the Americas.
SolarCity cuts co-founder salaries to $1, announces job losses
In an SEC filing, the distributed solar market leader reveals that it expects to incur restructuring charges of $3-5 million in light of unspecified number of job losses. The company’s CEO and CTO will accept reduced salaries as reduced guidance bites.
Sunlink expands installation business in New England
The company has contracted for over 20 MW of projects in Massachusetts and Vermont.
