Report shows LADWP’s lag in solar deployment
While California cities (and Honolulu) lead Environment America’s list of solar cities, Los Angeles doesn’t make the top ten in terms of watts per capita.
Hawaii utilities seek more renewables, storage and now grid services too
Hawaiian Electric Companies has laid out plans to source the equivalent of 135 MW of solar and 1,378 MWh of energy storage – as well as load shifting and frequency response from distributed energy resources through aggregators.
Supersized solar in the Midwest
Long seen as a slow region for solar deployment, the U.S. Midwest has seen an explosion of project development in recent years. And while there is still a lot of speculation and uncertainty, one way or another this region is going to see major development.
Big solar is coming to Ohio
pv magazine has found six projects totaling over 1 GWac that have siting board approval, interconnection agreements and/or PPAs, suggesting that large-scale solar development is about to take off in a big way.
Illinois emphasizes large rooftop solar, not community, in block grants
The Illinois Power Agency has allocated the last quarter of capacity under the adjustable block grant program, as it slogs through a backlog of applications for projects.
Your home’s solar and batteries could power the LA grid
Sunrun has proposed that the City of Los Angeles set its sights on 75,000 residential solar+storage systems (860 MWdc of solar plus 1.2 GWh of energy storage) by 2030 with the goal of replacing one of the region’s three retiring gas plants, while saving $60 million in electricity costs.
1.5¢/kWh renewables, 8minutenergy still #1, pvMB: 4/5/19
It’s springtime – so get outside this weekend – but first read your pv magazine morning brief where we talk about GameChange manufacturing in Detroit, 1.3 GW of energy storage coming to New England, solar cost recovery approved in Florida, and more!
Solar-powered pollinators for less than a penny a watt
Ernst Pollinator and Prairie Restorations offer the services, as required by various state scorecards for solar siting, to bring your solar site up to the “pollinator standard”, while also saving money on operations and maintenance over the long term.
U.S. trade authorities to investigate solar cells from Jinko, LONGi, REC
You heard us right: another trade investigation. This time the ITC will look at cells made by LONGi, JinkoSolar and REC Group, based on claims by Hanwha Q Cells that the companies have infringed on its PERC technology.
Boise to go 100% renewable, South Carolina students support solar freedom: pvMB for 4/4/19
Happy Thursday and welcome to the pvMB. Today we’ll be looking at SMUD joining the EIM (those words may mean nothing to you now but will soon), a new New Jersey brownfield project (not a Futurama joke), a new solar powered anti-theft backpack (with a built-in boombox model) and everything else you need to tackle the solar industry today.
