Sunrise brief: Which crops pair well with solar?
Also on the rise: Ossoff bill would address cost burden of rooftop solar to low- to middle-income customers, and $13 million in seed round funding for a solar module-mounted storage solution.
Startup Sunday: $13 million round for solar module-mounted storage
Also starting up: Shell buys a solar developer, and a New Mexico startup installs electricity producing windows using quantum dot technology.
A Nor’easter blew through. Our solar guy climbed on roofs to see the results
Hurricane-force wind gusts hit New England during a late October storm, damaging at least one rooftop solar array and leading Commercial Solar Guy to offer a few pointers.
OpenSolar updates 3D design and sales software
The company worked with PVEL and NREL to test and validate its free design product.
Ossoff bill would address rooftop solar’s cost burden on LMI people
The Clean Energy for All Homes Act would reduce the cost burden of installing PV and energy efficiency devices by allowing more taxpayers to receive a refund on qualified purchases.
Sunrise brief: 50-year solar? Here’s how the numbers may work
Also on the rise: NREL points to energy efficiency as a good substitute for energy storage, and a salary survey finds a widening pay gap between women and men in the solar sector.
Solar retains it LCOE edge in latest Lazard analysis
Utility-scale solar–both thin-film and crystalline silicon–as well as wind have the lowest LCOE of all U.S. sources considered.
Energy efficiency is a good substitute for long-term storage, NREL study says
Reducing building energy usage by about 60% is key to a least-cost 100% renewable energy grid, the study found.
50-year solar? Here’s how the numbers may work
The DCF from a solar project’s electricity generation increases by 46% when shifting the project from today’s standard 25-year lifetime to a 50-year time scale.
Sunrise brief: Work starts on 100 MW/50 MWh solar+storage project
Also on the rise: LONGi says that modules were detained by U.S. Customs agents, Salt River Project rolls out a new Solar Choice program, and a standalone storage project is headed to Utah.
