Texas rules in favor of wind and solar
Texas regulators have ruled that any renewable generation source connected to the state’s HVAC grid does not have to account for marginal losses, as the market turbulence it would cause isn’t worth the benefit, and it would go against the original spirit of the project.
Getting solar to the other 329 GW of homeowners
PosiGen has raised $90 million from the Connecticut Green Bank for a credit facility to fund low- to moderate- income households, which represent 42% of residential buildings in the United States.
Virginia lets Dominion build 240 MWac of solar – with conditions
State regulators are allowing Dominion to bill its electric customers for the costs of two plants, while providing the renewable energy credits to Facebook. The approval includes a performance clause, wherein the utility will pay if the plant doesn’t deliver as expected.
Corporate clean energy smashes records
Companies in the United States accounted for more than 60% of the clean energy deals signed by corporations worldwide last year, according to BloombergNEF. A proposed renewable portfolio standard for Chinese business, though, could turn the picture upside down in a year’s time.
Solar demand overwhelms Michigan utility – not “predictable”
Consumers Energy has asked Michigan regulators to suspend solar power interconnection applications as the increase in applications was “substantial, and too sudden, to allow to Company to respond” with appropriate resources.
Killing coal in Colorado with solar+wind+storage by 2025
Per an analysis by Vibrant Clean Energy, it’ll take approximately 2.8 GW of solar power, 8 GW of wind and 765 MW / 3 GWh of energy storage to allow Colorado to shut down its 4 GW of coal by 2025, while also lowering electric rates by 5%.
NextEra: solar and wind plus batteries will be “massively disruptive” to conventional generation
The power giant says that coal, gas and nukes will not be able to compete with clean energy, and that renewable energy deployment is “just getting started”.
pvMB 1/25/19: Digital Reality+SunEnergy1+Facebook+80MW, Ikea hits 56 MW and more…
Happy Friday. In today’s pv magazine USA morning brief Forefront Power and Arcadia Energy are moving through 75 MW of community solar in New York, Florida Governor Desantis is lacking renewables, and solar is still exponential.
From the editor: EIA versus the future
EIA’s long-term projections remain stubbornly immune to reality. And the biggest problem is the potential collapse of civilization if we extract and burn anywhere near as much coal, gas and oil as the agency forecasts.
New communications profile will access distributed solar’s capabilities
The profile permits standardized communications between a utility (or aggregator) and distributed solar and storage resources. The profile will permit access to an expansive set of solar and storage capabilities.
