The wide market of solar panels, Deep sea pumped storage: pvMB 12/9/19
Hello wonderful people, happy Monday and welcome to the pvMB!
BlackRock aims a $2.5 billion fund at commercial and industrial solar, wind, and battery storage
The good news is that the world’s largest fund manager, BlackRock, just closed $1 billion of a record $2.5 billion fund dedicated to solar, wind, and energy storage projects. The bad news is that the $2.5 billion fund is a tiny fraction of BlackRock’s $6.96 trillion balance sheet and small change compared to BlackRock’s $17.5 billion investment in coal.
The dollar value of saving lives with solar
The Environmental Protection Agency has released data showing the cost per kWh benefit that solar brings to the areas where its health benefits are needed the most. These benefits are based on atmospheric particulate matter reduction benefit assumptions.
SunCast Episode 202: 202: Engineering a startup while in grad school, Mikhail Gofman of Green Think Energy
In this episode of SunCast, Nico sits down with Green Think Energy founder Mikhail Gofman to discuss the feat of starting a solar design firm while still in graduate school and the future of engineering automation.
Elon Musk calls for an ‘immediate’ and ‘significant increase’ in Tesla’s solar installs
Tesla was once the unquestioned leader in the residential rooftop market with a market share of around 33 percent, but today, the company is No. 3, and its market share during the first quarter was a little more than 6 percent.
RE100 experiences biggest year ever
Growing by a third and seeing already one in seven members at 100% renewable electricity, more and more companies are joining RE100 and leading the global switch to renewable energy.
California load-serving entities experience increasing challenges in procuring resource adequacy capacity
In this op-ed for pv magazine , Seth Hilton of Stoel Rives LLP dives into the difficulties California is having meeting its resource adequacy obligations.
Arkansas’ largest project breaks ground, Amazon announces more than 300 MW: pvMB 12/4/19
Hello everybody and welcome to the pvMB. Today we’ve got rooftop solar saving everyone money, Hires at Key Capture and the Lion King of solar.
Energy storage growth clumpy but broad in 2019, next year it triples
Wood Mackenzie projects 430 MW of energy storage will be connected to the grid this year, 38% greater power than the prior year, however utility scale procurements are scheduled to begin deploying next year jumping volumes 300%.
National Climate Bank initiative could be a boon for solar
A companion bill to the National Climate Bank Act is expected to be introduced in the House, which could provide a huge boon to the solar and the solar plus storage markets.
