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Breaking: FERC dismisses petition by shadowy group to end net metering

More than 450 organizations, 57,000 individuals and 37 states submitted comments opposing the NERA petition that could have ended the net metering program that has helped the residential and commercial solar industry to grow over the last decade.

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Traditional O&M teams are not equipped to recover distressed PV assets after severe weather events

In the U.S., this year alone, there have been ten weather/climate disaster events with losses exceeding $1 billion each, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

Freedom Solar posts most profitable quarter ever

A record-setting 2019 has led into an even stronger 2020, with the company hoping to ramp up success in the typically-busy second half of the year.

Discriminatory rooftop solar charges may violate antitrust law

The U.S. Department of Justice has argued that in Arizona, a utility’s discriminatory charges for rooftop solar owners can be “unlawful.” The Center for Biological Diversity also supported the four rooftop solar owners whose lawsuit has progressed, arguing the legal significance of Arizona’s renewables goals.

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From Rwanda to Riverside: How the solar industry provided new opportunities for an immigrant entrepreneur

When Covid-19 hit his small solar engineering business, CEO Methode Maniraguha said, no furloughs or layoffs — we’ll pivot.

Biden-Sanders task force calls for installing 500 million solar modules in next five years

The wide-ranging joint report includes a section: “Undoing the Harms of the Trump Administration and Righting the Wrongs.”

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The US installed more solar in Q1 2020 than ever before

The record-setting quarter was driven by nearly 2 GW of utility-scale solar, supplemented by another 1.6 GW of residential and commercial and industrial. And while the ongoing pandemic will slow the industry a bit in 2020, five-year projections, especially for Texas, are strong.

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New retail climate bonds category, patterned after WW2 bonds and designed to aid rooftop solar uptake, to debut

All of the proceeds from the $16.1 million issuance will support rooftop solar deployment in Connecticut.

Job Moves: Quinbrook, Sun Tribe Solar, Bloom Energy, Sunnova, Cypress Creek, Powin, CarbonQuest

Executive, career and boardroom moves in solar, storage, cleantech, utilities and energy VC.

CEO of residential solar installer survived gangs and prison, only to face structural racism in his career path

Solar workforce development can help win independence from systemic racism

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