Morning Brief: Saipem and Equinor to develop floating solar off the Indian Coast, Covid-19 is taking solar sales out of the home
Also in the brief: a lawsuit filed against the Spotsylvania solar project, West Virginia’s solar future sits at the governor’s desk, 16 MW for Richmond, Indiana and more.
Job moves at DOE, Enel, Trina, FERC, Engie, Sunpower, PG&E
Executive and boardroom moves in solar, storage, cleantech, utilities and energy finance.
Panasonic suspending work at Tesla Nevada factory as California and New York gigafactories shut down
Tesla’s Nevada operation is still open for business. The EV and battery maker assures the market that its cash position is strong enough to weather an “extended period of uncertainty.”
Morning Brief: 350 MW project in Texas sold, Trina begins mass production of 500 W panels
Also in the brief: financing for a massive Texas project, distributed portfolio expansion in the DMV, Duke waives fees amid COVID crisis and more.
How to keep selling solar in an era of social distancing
If there was ever a time to learn how to sell remotely — it’s now — when most homeowners are in their homes around the clock. Join our timely and anticipated webinar to learn the adjustments you’ll need to make to your typical sales process.
First order for 500 W solar modules announced
Chinese manufacturer Risen Energy will supply Malaysia’s Tokai Engineering with 20 MW of its new panels, unveiled in December. Risen claims its products can help reduce balance-of-system project costs by 9.6% and levelized cost of energy by 6%.
ACORE calls on Congress for tax credit extension amid COVID-19 uncertainty
ACORE and five other environmental and renewable energy groups have written to Congress urging for start construction and safe harbor deadline extensions, as well as tax credits for stand-alone energy storage to relieve any industry hardships brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic.
Study of 100,000 arrays finds proactive O&M preferable
The US National Renewable Energy Laboratory examined five-year data to observe the most common system failure points and how to prevent them. Researchers considered residential, commercial and utility scale plants and found interesting results. While failures cannot be avoided completely, a key takeaway was that close monitoring and timely repair can effectively mitigate the financial effects of failures.
Morning Brief: Rare Utah earthquake knocks out power to 55,000
Rocky Mountain Power must respond to a natural disaster while social distancing. Plus, New York is good, but NIMBY about solar.
NEXTracker completes the largest solar tracker supply deal in history
NEXTracker has fulfilled the contract terms of a 3.4 GW tracker supply deal signed with 174 Power Global in the second half of 2019. The shipment represents more than 11% of all tracker systems shipped in 2019.
