Markets & Policy

Also on the rise: Nautilus buys a community solar development portfolio, a national lab moves ahead on a $75 million grid storage accelerator facility, and Sunrun prices its solar-as-a-service offering.

The bills would allow local elected officials to require a vote on projects set to be developed within a township.

Duke along with community and environmental groups find themselves as unlikely allies as state officials deem a 5 MW installation to be expensive and unnecessary.

The growing deployment of solar assets can’t be contained. For the health of the whole industry, we owe it to ourselves to deploy better projects.

The state’s Green Bank program is helping four local governments install solar at more than a dozen public buildings.

Job moves in solar, storage, cleantech, utilities, and energy transition finance.

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 bipartisan legislation would provide a federal investment tax credit for energy storage without the need for solar.

As much as 70% of losses linked to solar energy systems in the past decade have occurred since 2017. The insurance industry is no longer “naive” to the risk.

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.