Sunrise brief: Making the case for installing solar on 30 million homes
Also on the rise: A solar-friendly infrastructure bill is facing early tests in Congress, the NAACP develops solar power principles to address inequity, and more energy storage enters service in California.
Go big and go home: The case for solarizing 30 million homes
A new report argues for the largest solar buildout the country has ever seen, which it said would create 1.77 million jobs and drive $69 billion in energy savings over five years.
Wildfires could lead to millions in solar losses, insurer warns
A GCube report says that the solar industry must institute widespread wildfire mitigation and monitoring practices, or else it stands to suffer major financial losses in the coming years.
Spotsylvania solar project begins partial operation
The first 259 MW of the embattled project are on-line, with the rest of the capacity expected to follow in the fall.
North Carolina bill hides reduced utility oversight behind lots of new renewables
House Bill 951 would lead to a huge procurement of renewables, but is soured by the additions of gigawatt-scale natural gas capacity, reduced regulator authority, and potential multi-year rate hikes.
Welcome to the club: New York reaches 3 GW of installed solar
The state becomes the 10th to reach the milestone, with installed capacity expected to double in the next four years.
Solar 101: Tips for keeping your rooftop solar system humming over the long term
Solar O&M comes down to mechanical rooftop connections, electrical solar panel connections, panel and connection temperatures, and inverters. Here are four possible plans of attack.
Solar PV fires: Cost estimates and the road to better data
The solar industry’s struggle with fire safety is ongoing. Dr. John R. Balfour and Lawrence Shaw have developed a means to begin to estimate the future costs and impacts from reported PV system-sourced fires.
Georgia is approaching its net metering cap
Regulators are set to discuss the cap, though it is unclear whether that means to raise it, or implement a successor program.
Here’s why regulators rejected Duke Energy’s IRPs in South Carolina
Not a single IRP presented under South Carolina’s Energy Freedom Act has been accepted by state regulators. Could that be because the utilities are acting like the law doesn’t exist?
