Underperforming solar assets shade the entire industry. Here is how to fix it
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.
Solar MAP guides Connecticut munis through project development process
The state’s Green Bank program is helping four local governments install solar at more than a dozen public buildings.
Energy Transition Jobs: FlexGen, SolarWindow, American Clean Power Association, Complete Solar, and more
Job moves in solar, storage, cleantech, utilities, and energy transition finance.
Sunrise brief: Retire coal today? No problem, RMI report says
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.
Lawmakers propose energy storage system tax incentive
The bipartisan legislation would provide a federal investment tax credit for energy storage without the need for solar.
Insurance for renewable energy projects adapts to more frequent and destructive disasters
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.
The Solar Massachusetts Renewable Target program works. Here’s why
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.
Tesla unit eyes a battery energy storage system in Texas
The 100 MW battery storage system would provide black start and balancing services for a volatile node within ERCOT.
‘We have a real adversary’: Work intensifies to safeguard solar from cyber attacks
Solar inverters are increasingly smart, but their sophisticated power electronics expose potential cyber security gaps. Work is underway to harden the devices from intruders who may be out to cripple the electric grid.
University of Wyoming, 9H partner on a 3 MW solar research facility for students
The solar installation will use First Solar Series 6 modules and the research facility will return up to $10 million to the university through energy savings and services.
