Policy

The award totals just under one-third of all community solar capacity in the second year of New Jersey’s now-permanent community solar program.

The decade-old charge is a thing of the past after regulators agreed that solar customers pay their fair share of grid costs.

Also on the rise: The White House announces a pared-down framework for its Build Back Better agenda, Tesla orders 45 GWh of EV batteries, and New Jersey makes its community solar program permanent.

The state’s popular community solar program is here to stay, and one SEIA representative stated that the goal is to add a minimum of 150 MW annually.

Federal policy must address equipment availability, solar development pathway risk and timing, as well as transmission and distribution interconnection.

The framework includes a 10-year expanded tax credit for utility-scale and residential clean energy, transmission and storage, clean passenger and commercial vehicles, and clean energy manufacturing.

Also on the rise: SEIA fires back at A-SMACC’s antidumping tariff request, and Enphase launches a microinverter line for microgrids.

In a 138-page rebuttal to a petition for anti-dumping tariffs, the trade group insisted that the solar industry would miss out on 46,000 jobs by 2023 if tariffs were put in place.

States don’t need to reinvent the wheel when evaluating smart inverter requirements, said a Sunrun policy director, noting that delays in setting requirements could lead to “wasted infrastructure.”

FERC said it lacked authority to grant the request, but is now looking into allegations that TVA retaliated against the petitioners.