Sunrise brief: Retire coal today? No problem, RMI report says
Also on the rise: Nashville approves 3.2 MW of solar PV at water treatment plants, and PG&E says it aced California’s 2020 RPS goal.
The Solar Massachusetts Renewable Target program works. Here’s why
Tools deployed by the state as well as the underlying contract structure have created a program that local business and homeowners can grasp, and are investing in. That’s SMAHHHT.
Sunrise brief: Community solar player Nexamp lines up $440m to fuel its growth
Also on the rise: Texas regulators rebuff a call to roll off $16b in storm-related charges, Enphase Energy supplies microinverters to a senior housing project, and Canadian Solar sells Japanese solar projects.
Sunrise brief: A Texas-sized ‘oops’ for grid operator ERCOT
Also on the rise: Researchers use AI to model how grid failures cascade in a disaster, VEIR raises capital for its novel transmission line technology, NV Energy issues a community solar RFP, Freedom Solar gains two new partners, and Daqo New Energy signs a polysilicon supply deal.
Sunrise brief: These 3 states have the most small-scale solar PV
Also on the rise: $150m construction revolver for DSD, Sunlight Financial offers Spanish language products, and what’s up with wind?
‘Report card’ hands the energy sector a C- for infrastructure. It’s an improvement.
The report from the American Society of Civil Engineers said renewables are driving an increase in electric transmission infrastructure spending. But reliability remain a problem, as Texas can attest.
Solar developer Keystone Power Holdings expands U.S. footprint
The company plans to enter three new markets and focus on nonprofits and municipalities with wastewater treatment plants.
Dakota Power wins OK for utility-scale solar in the Garden State
The developer won local approval for a 70 MW solar farm, part of its proposed billion-dollar project portfolio in New Jersey.
Arcadia expands community solar program to Maine
The community solar program comes with a subscription model that requires no credit check, no long-term contract, and no cancellation fee, benefiting the rental market.
Add 16 GW solar, 10 GW storage in North Carolina, says alternative resource plan
The plan would yield $7.2 billion of cost savings, says a filing from the North Carolina Sustainable Energy Association and other groups, in comparison with Duke Energy’s least-cost resource plan.
