EnergySage educates with solar buyer’s guide
EnergySage has released an all-new solar buyers guide which provides data and assessments of thousands of different solar modules and inverters, as well as scores of residential batteries.
ABB exits solar inverter business
This Swiss giant is following a trend as large multinational high-tech companies see their role as redesigning infrastructure rather than supplying inverters at ever lower margins. Schneider Electric has pulled out of large scale solar, Siemens’ Kaco acquisition and Junelight launch show increasing interest in the C&I and residential markets, and GE is likely to divest its power conversion business due to low profit margins in that sector.
Lawyers embracing the good fight for solar power
The Sabin Center for Climate Change Law at Columbia University and the law firm Arnold and Porter have founded the pro bono “Renewable Energy Legal Defense Initiative” to support renewable energy development with professional legal help.
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!
Is the cost of cutting carbon too steep?
Wood Mackenzie has released a report entitled “Deep decarbonization requires deep pockets” estimating that it would cost $4.5 trillion to fully decarbonize the U.S. power grid by 2030, but is the avoided cost greater than the upfront?
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!
Florida’s stunted customer owned solar grows 76% in 2018
The State of Florida deployed 113 MWac of net metered, customer owned solar power across 13,705 installations last year – 68% more installations and 76% more watts than the prior year.
ENGIE invests in Conti family
Development giant ENGIE has purchased EPC specialist Conti Corporation and its affiliates Indicon Corporation, Ion Electric, and McGilvray Mechanical.
