Huawei faces three more Solaredge lawsuits
Inverter manufacturer Solaredge has filed three additional patent infringement lawsuits against its competitor, Huawei, in China. This comes after three similar legal actions against Huawei that had been undertaken by Solaredge in Germany last summer. While Huawei has decided not to comment on the matter, the Chinese manufacturer revealed that it had filed three patent litigation claims against Solaredge at a Chinese court this May.
100 MW could come to Dulles, SunPower safe harbors 200 MW of panels: pvMB 10/7/19
Welcome to your workweek and to this week’s Monday pvMN. Today we’re looking at 350 MW proposed for Buffalo, NY, Contra Costa County partnering with SunPower on solar carports, Alta Devices and Stanford’s solar car and more!
Platte River Power wants to grow its PV capacity 500%
The utility has issued a request for proposals for 150 MW of solar, in addition to the 22 MW upgrade set for its lone 30 MW project.
Google takes the first step towards its 5 GW goal
Google and Hecate Energy have announced a deal for Google to purchase 250 MW annually from a 500 MW Hecate project in Texas, the first development in the company’s recently-announced plan to add 1.6 GW of wind and solar.
TerraForm buys 320 MW, Batteries for trains: pvMB 10/3/19
Hello one an all! It’s Thursday and we have an MB just for you. Today we’ll be looking at Sun Tribe Development naming a CEO, Yotta winning Startup of the Year, Chinese PV makers challenging anti-subsidy rates for PV and more!
240 MW project at steel mill moves forward in Co., Vivint solar under securities fraud investigation: pvMB 10/2/19
Hello one and all to the midweek MB! Today we’ll be looking at a FirstEnergy RFP in Ohio, Illinois Office of Energy supporting a university solar + storage project and more!
Montgomery County’s rooftop solar mandate, changes at Green Mountain Power: pvMB 10/1/19
Hello all you beautiful people, we’re back from SPI and back with the pvMB. In this first MB of October, we’ll be checking out POWERHOME Solar expanding and hiring in Illinois, BPA entering Western EIM, California reaching a million solar roofs and more!
UPDATED: Solar, and solar plus storage records *possibly/probably(not)* set in California
California CCA East Bay Community Energy has signed two power contracts at an average price of 2.2¢/kWh for a total of 225 MWac of solar power, with one of the projects containing 80 MW / 160 MWh of energy storage.
Feds find Tesla violated labor laws
Administrative Law Judge Amita Baman Tracy has found the company and CEO Elon Musk in violation of the National Labor Relations Act over tweets regarding employee unionization.
Dominion acquires 95 MW in Virginia, PG&E pays Topaz Solar: pvMB 9/27/19
Hello everybody and welcome to a super-secret, post-SPI, Friday edition of the pvMB. Today we’ll be looking at the completion of 174 Power Global’s first solar + storage project, CS Energy with a community storage project in New Jersey, Enel X bringing EV chargers to UMass Boston and more!
