pvMB 3/12/19: Rhode Island’s solar siting bill, POWERHOME expands to Indiana… and more!
Hello and welcome to this Tuesday pvMB. Today we’ll be checking out NREL’s city-level siting data, a solar canopy protecting a car dealership from hail, Sierra Club and SunPower’s rebate program and everything else to prep you for your day.
Financial software integrates distributed storage software
Financial modeling software provider Energy Toolbase will integrate Stem’s energy storage modeling software to help communicate the economic benefits of storage at customer sites.
Corporate buyers of solar electricity face price risk
Corporations that lock in a fixed purchase price for solar power, offset by sale of the power at varying wholesale rates, could face “significant financial downside,” says an advisory group, as more solar on the grid could drive down wholesale prices.
Jacksonville opens the gates to big solar with EDF contracts
JEA has awarded EDF contracts to buy power from five 62 MWdc projects which the developer will build. This will represent 5% of the utility’s power needs.
pvMB 3/11/19: Wisconsin’s big development, Vistra’s energy retail business… and more!
Hello, welcome to your workweek and the pvmb. Today we’ll be looking at Florida A&M and Duke’s partnership on a 74.9 MW project, a 5 MW plant coming to Massachusetts, a former Virginia coal plant being converted to solar and everything else you need for this new week in the solar industry.
Michigan regulators pump the brakes on DTE’s plans to increase customer charges (again)
The utility keeps trying to kill distributed solar, one way or another, and regulators just keep rebuffing them.
Powerhouse not so strong, seeking “strategic alternatives” for solar shingle product
RGS Energy has announced that its board is seeking “strategic alternatives” including a sale of the company, following on its stock being delisted from the NASDAQ to the pink sheet OTXQX platform.
Intersolar North America canceled for July
Solar Promotion and FMMI have sold off the event to Maine-based Diversified Communications, which plans to hold the next Intersolar North America and EES in San Diego in February 2020.
Wind+solar developer sells pipeline to National Grid for more than $100 million
National Grid has purchased the wind and solar energy developer Geronimo Energy for “at least $100 million”, and is negotiating to buy a 51% stake in 378 MW the group has already developed.
Rounding up solar O&M in the Lone Star State
PV Operations Dallas, April 16-17, will host a broad group of industry heavy weights to give you the ins and outs of solar power & energy storage O&M in Texas and the Southwest.
