Inverter quality and warranties more important to owners
The demand for high quality inverters has led all but the shortest-outlook equipment purchasers to move into Tier 1, in large part because of the more solid warranty offered.
Co-op solar project goes online in Wisconsin
The first of the projects under Dairyland Power’s 15 MW initiative has come online.
SunPower to sell its stake in 8point3
The high efficiency PV maker has decided not to find a replacement for fellow sponsor First Solar, and instead to get out of the yieldco business.
Three-year-old developer sPower sold for $1.6 billion
Nurtured by Fir Tree Partners since 2014, the fledgling utility-scale developer and IPP nets the hedge fund sponsor a windfall as it is sold to a Canadian-American joint venture.
Maine regulators approve state’s largest solar project
A first phase of the 9.9 MW project is expected to be completed by the end of the year, as one of the first under a 50 MW pilot community-owned renewables program.
Hawaii approves contracts for 110 MW-AC of utility-scale solar
NRG will build three large projects for utility HECO, which includes the state’s largest solar plant to date.
Big Sky, small solar, smaller terms
A Montana solar project that would have quadrupled the state’s installed solar has been bushwhacked in the regulatory process, putting solar and even any power plant development in the state in question.
Tallahassee to move from hydro to solar
The decision to shutter the 11-MW C.H. Corn Hydroelectric Station by the city’s municipal utility comes down to cost and reliability – something the city believes it can get more effectively from solar than water.
The Panoche Valley Solar Farm gets downsized
Under a settlement with environmentalists, 117 MW of the mammoth 247 MW project planned for Central California’s Coast Range will move to the Imperial Valley.
DOE launches “Hit me with your SunShot” photo contest
The contest is offering up to $2,500 in prizes, and pv magazine is hoping that DOE will license the winners under public domain.
