Looking back: 3 stories you may have missed
There was A LOT of important news last week, so you can’t possibly have seen it all. When stories fall through the cracks, we catch them — and then we bring them to you in a collection we call Looking back.
106 MW-AC solar project goes online in Texas
ConEdison owns the 106 MW-AC Texas Solar 7 project, the seventh project in the deal that jump-started large-scale solar in Texas.
Boom time: the pv magazine USA week in review
It’s a complicated time in the U.S. solar industry, with a booming market for utility-scale solar and increasing public interest, but also collapsed PV module prices and shifts in production.
NextEra, Xcel put online New Mexico’s largest solar project at 70 MW-AC
NextEra is building a second PV project also 70 MW-AC in capacity, which should be online at the end of this month.
sPower raises $786 million for nine solar projects
This combination of tax equity and debt financing will support 339 MW of solar capacity in Southern California, for a total of $2.32 per watt.
40% of U.S. Homeowners have considered solar PV
A new study by Pew Research found the most interest in the West, where 2/3 of homeowners say they have either considered or already installed solar PV.
Boom time in Texas
Texas has been only a modest solar market to date, but that is changing fast. A boom started by municipal utilities and enabled by free transmission is expected to lead to a massive amount of utility-scale solar coming online over the next five years, and even more over the next decade.
More than 10 GW of utility-scale solar is under construction in the United States
Eight states have more than 400 MW-DC of projects under construction each, showing increasing market diversification.
New video interviews with GTM Research, EnergySage and SunShot Director Dr. Charlie Gay
pv magazine LIVE brings you more videos interviews from the 2016 Solar Power International trade show
Macquarie acquires 80 MW-AC solar project in Utah
Scatec Solar’s Red Hills solar project is MREH’s eight solar facility.
