“Unlimited” capacity hydrogen storage facility developing in Utah
An MOU was signed by Mitsubishi and Magnum Developers in Utah to develop a 1,000 MW power facility at underground salt caverns in Utah that can be used to store renewable hydrogen and compressed air, while also deploying flow batteries and solid oxide fuel cells at the site.
Out with the old, in with the old: Tobin resigns from ACC
Commissioner Andy Tobin has resigned from his role with the Arizona Corporation Commission to join the state’s Department of Administration. He’ll be replaced by Marquez Peterson, a Southern Arizona Republican and former president of the Tucson Hispanic Chamber of Commerce.
To be, or not to be – a solar facility or a utility?
Iowa solar contractor Eagle Point Solar is suing Wisconsin utility WE Energies for blocking its solar lease with the City of Milwaukee, stating that it would make the contractor an electric utility. The contractor contends that a private agreement does not denote public sale of electricity.
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.
Canadian Solar and Trina Solar set efficiency records: pvMB 5/28/19
Hello and welcome back from your Memorial Day weekend and to today’s edition of the pvMB. Today we’ll be taking a look at NeoVolta’s home battery being approved for California’s Self Generation Incentive Program, the expert landscapers keeping up with New York’s Tompkins Solar Farm and more!
Xcel dismantles Boulder’s attempt at a city utility
After a lengthy court battle, Xcel has emerged the victor: A settlement has been reached which eliminates the on-paper municipal utility established by the City of Boulder. However this is not the end for of the utility entirely, as there is still an election to be held that could result in the creation of one.
DC Solar gets liquidated
On June 12 & 13, the saga of DC Solar will come to an end in an auction at the company’s headquarters in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Sunrun’s securitizations pay 99.1% of the time
The Kroll Bond Rating Agency has issued a preliminary rating of “A-” on 88 MWdc of residential solar PPAs and leases being offered for purchase by Sunrun. The 14,377-unit portfolio has a current delinquency rate of 0.09%.
