Pine Gate starts work on massive solar project in South Carolina
The 101 MW project may be the largest in the state, which has lagged its immediate neighbors.
EDF to bring 350 MW to NY, New Hampshire’s new RPS, maybe: pvMB 7/8/19
Hello everybody and welcome back from your long 4th of July weekend, if you had one. Today we’re back with the pvMB and we’ll be looking at $55 million for Long Island energy storage, storage replacing peakers in New York, Direct Solar getting in the Texas football booster game and more!
Duke Energy hits 1 GW owned solar, 74.5 MW coming to Escambia: pvMB 7/3/19
Hello and welcome to your July 3rd pvMB! Today we’ll be tackling Bloom Energy going hydrogen, a jet fuel burning plant shutdown in Oakland, RPCS’ safe harbor strategy for ITC stepdown and more. Enjoy your holiday!
Bridging the gap: Mariah Lynne of Good Steward on farming and solar
In this interview Good Steward CEO Mariah Lynne talks about what solar projects can mean for farmers and rural communities as a whole, and how to get everyone on the same page when projects are being developed.
Solar power’s great land use responsibility
Solar developer Silicon Ranch has launched its Regenerative Energy program, which takes a broader view of climate and land use issues in utility scale solar construction.
Coal closures open door for solar in Texas, New Mexico
Hundreds of megawatts of coal-fired generation will soon be going off-line for good. And what’s even better is that these plants are set to be replaced with somewhere in the ballpark of 800 MW of solar.
SEIA’s solar permit software, corporate turnover typhoon: pvMB 7/2/19
Hello everybody and welcome to today’s edition of the pvMB. This morning we’ll be looking at the change of CEOs at El Paso Electric, Enel Green Power selling off 65 MW of the Roadrunner project, the Cape Anne solar campaign and more!
PV interconnection requirements may change with new reliability guidance
Interconnection requirements for mid-sized and large inverter-based systems directly connected to the transmission grid may change based on new guidance issued in draft form by the North American Electric Reliability Corporation. The guidance does not apply to distributed PV.
Los Angeles seeks record setting solar power price under 2¢/kWh
The city’s municipal utility is readying a 25-year power purchase agreement for 400 MWac of solar power at 1.997¢/kWh along with electricity from 200 MW / 800 MWh of energy storage at a 1.3¢/kWh adder, for an aggregate price of 3.297¢/kWh.
Montana solar project wins in court, will triple state’s capacity
A judge has set rates for an 80 MWac solar project at 3.833¢/kWh for 25 years after previously finding that state regulators had violated due process in intentionally setting rates too low for the facility under PURPA.
