Facebook drives two big solar projects in Texas and Utah
Construction is starting on a 300 MWac solar project in Texas, as a power contract is signed for a 122 MWac solar project in Utah. The social media giant is involved in both, and both use First Solar PV modules.
Duke to decommission a nuke, solar coming to the Centre County jail: pvMB 5/30/19
Hello and welcome to your Thursday pvMB, live from day two of Solar Power Southeast today, along with the aforementioned, we’ll be checking out the Q1 accomplishments of Peak Electric.
Wind+solar trade for coal fails, but shows the path forward
Guzman Energy has proposed to finance the early closure of most of 1.1 GW of coal generation in Colorado and New Mexico, as part of a deal to offer 1.2 GW of wind and solar generation, plus storage backed by gas. Tri-State Generation has declined the offer.
Alabama’s largest solar project has an offtaker, Pedernales Co-op’s first battery project: pvMB 5/29/19
Hello from sunny Atlanta and, more importantly, Solar Power Southeast 2019. Today we’ll be hitting you, figuratively, with Eagle Point Solar’s lawsuit in Wisconsin, Executive changes at PJM Interconnection, Tennessee’s largest landfill project and everything else you can handle.
Grass-fed beef meets big solar
First Solar has completed the 280 MWac California Flats solar project, co-located with a 73,000-acre cattle ranch which raises grass-fed beef for Whole Foods. This is the biggest demonstration of the synergies between grazing and solar that we’ve seen to date.
Oregon further limits use of prime farmland for solar development
The new rules by state land use authorities make it harder to put mid-to-large-scale solar on an estimated 6% of the state’s land, and raise the question of whether the state is engaging in land conservation or indulging NIMBYism.
FPL opens the floodgates on a tidal wave of solar
Florida Power and Light is ramping up construction on its “30 by 30” plan, announcing today the beginning of 10 projects across the Sunshine State, each one clocking in at 74.5 MW, for a grand total of 745 MW of solar.
Panasonic’s new premium installers, 100 MW coming to Illinois: pvMB 5/23/19
Hello all and welcome to your Thursday pvMB, today we’ll be checking out OpenSolar’s new solar software design and sales app, Azelio’s thermal energy storage becoming PV compatible and more!
Nearly 200 MW coming to Indiana at under $1/watt
This unprecedented development in the Hoosier State is just the beginning of a much, much bigger tidal wave of development, all of which is planned before Halloween of 2023.
Peaker envy, veto proof net metering, and utility scale solar growth in New Hampshire
Legislation calling for 15% of peak demand to be met by energy storage is moving through the House; a veto-proof increase in system sizes under net metering goes to the governor; and 215 MWac of large-scale solar projects are seeking various approvals.
