Sunrise brief: Which crops pair well with solar?
Also on the rise: Ossoff bill would address cost burden of rooftop solar to low- to middle-income customers, and $13 million in seed round funding for a solar module-mounted storage solution.
Sunrise brief: 50-year solar? Here’s how the numbers may work
Also on the rise: NREL points to energy efficiency as a good substitute for energy storage, and a salary survey finds a widening pay gap between women and men in the solar sector.
50-year solar? Here’s how the numbers may work
The DCF from a solar project’s electricity generation increases by 46% when shifting the project from today’s standard 25-year lifetime to a 50-year time scale.
SRP rolls out Solar Choice program to replace two ‘legacy’ offerings
A bill adder of at least a $0.005 per kilowatt-hour to take part would top off current monthly price plans.
Border agents detained 40.31 MW of LONGi solar products, company says
The detained modules accounted for roughly 1.59% of the company’s total 2020 export sales volume to the U.S.
Sunrise brief: Cases are being made today on solar import tariffs
Also on the rise: Alliant Energy outlines its solar plans for Iowa, ENGIE NA scraps a solar+storage project, and distributed solar company Navisun has a new owner.
NEXTracker reaches 50 GW of tracker shipments
The milestone includes 20 GW of sales for TrueCapture, the company’s smart control software.
SEIA calls for an end to Section 201 tariffs on solar imports
The industry trade group submitted a brief in advance of a November 3 hearing on the effectiveness of the Trump-era Section 201 tariffs.
Solar Landscape is awarded 46 community solar projects
The award totals just under one-third of all community solar capacity in the second year of New Jersey’s now-permanent community solar program.
CIT Group leads financing for solar-plus-storage portfolio
Amp Energy is developing five separate solar power generation systems at four project sites in central New York State.
