Markets & Policy

Also on the rise: Black Hills Energy wants to charge solar owners for the “true cost” of their energy, and an online solar 101 course from SUNY tops 50,000 students worldwide.

Potomac Edison proposed the two projects in response to Maryland’s Energy Storage Pilot Program, which was established in 2019.

The American Green Bank Consortium added five new green banks and said that market actors across 22 states were actively exploring or taking steps to develop green banks.

Dominion may be hoping to ease some of the pushback that local communities have shown to the development of utility-scale solar projects.

Also on the rise: More community solar comes to Colorado, battery energy storage will support Dominica’s grid via a UAE international development fund, and Carbon Neutral Energy says ‘howdy’ to Texas.

The agreement follows negotiations with Vote Solar, the CLEO Institute, and Southern Alliance for Clean Energy, as more than 20,000 Duke Energy Florida customers are reported to behind on their electric bills.

The first of nine projects that Greenskies plans to develop is in service, but the state’s virtual net metering cap may slow additional capacity from being built.

The new capacity additions were brought forward to help the state recover from the economic effects of the Covid-19 pandemic.

Solar rooftop additions are unlikely to shave much from the record load that the grid operator expects as the economy recovers and hot and dry weather push demand growth.

The 3 MW/9MWh system is being built to avoid costly re-construction of existing transmission lines in part of Rhode Island.