Residential PV

While the solar-specific charge was dropped as part of a settlement, the utility will increase fixed charges on its Texas customers.

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.

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.

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.

The wide-ranging settlement of three separate cases would include a process for battery storage interconnection, the withdrawal of a charge for solar customers, and a shift to time-of-use rates.

EnergySage has been contracted as the exclusive provider of GoSolarCT.com, which allows homeowners to research and comparison-shop for solar PV systems.

A critical rate case in Arizona gets resolved, NRG moves to acquire SunEdison assets, SolarCity goes BIPV, downsizing at SMA and SunPower, results from SCTY, RUN & VSLR, and more…

The third-party residential solar company is still struggling with high costs in its partner network, but has surpassed Vivint Solar as the second-largest residential solar installer in 2016 so far.

Industry analysts note that the market for residential BIPV in the United States is “non-existent” at present, and SolarCity’s plans to use crystalline silicon are a new direction.

The case was closely watched as a precedent for future rate cases in Arizona.