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To be, or not to be – a solar facility or a utility?

Iowa solar contractor Eagle Point Solar is suing Wisconsin utility WE Energies for blocking its solar lease with the City of Milwaukee, stating that it would make the contractor an electric utility. The contractor contends that a private agreement does not denote public sale of electricity.

Ohio bill to eliminate renewable mandate, bail out coal, nukes

After scratching and clawing its way through, HB 6 has passed out of the Ohio House, and now brings to the Senate its nuclear and coal subsidies and elimination of renewable procurement mandates.

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SEIA forms new manufacturing division

Hanwha Q Cells and REC Group have joined the new division, which will be the first time that manufacturers are explicitly represented by the trade group.

Alabama’s largest solar project has an offtaker, Pedernales Co-op’s first battery project: pvMB 5/29/19

Hello from sunny Atlanta and, more importantly, Solar Power Southeast 2019. Today we’ll be hitting you, figuratively, with Eagle Point Solar’s lawsuit in Wisconsin, Executive changes at PJM Interconnection, Tennessee’s largest landfill project and everything else you can handle.

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New York’s winter time solar duck curve cometh

A site origination exercise and load analysis by Cornell University suggests that 9 GW of solar will reduce peak demand in New York by nearly 10%. However it also finds that solar needs better capacity valuations to make for a stronger market, and will drive a wintertime duck curve during the season of lower electricity demand.

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California’s largest floating solar, OpenSolar.com goes live, Ohio shuts wind+solar out of coal bailout, more!: pvMB 5/24/19

The sun is out, the stories are out! Sunworks is installing solar +storage for schools, pricing in the solar module supply chain is stable, EIA is offering up new data formats, more!

Oregon further limits use of prime farmland for solar development

The new rules by state land use authorities make it harder to put mid-to-large-scale solar on an estimated 6% of the state’s land, and raise the question of whether the state is engaging in land conservation or indulging NIMBYism.

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BEST bill seeks $300 million for long-term energy storage projects

Starting with $60 million in 2020 and with contracts to be signed by the end of 2023, the “BEST Act” seeks five grid-tied energy storage projects with 6-100 hours of duration, which can run for twenty years.

The tricky tide of renewables in Maryland

Maryland’s 50% by 2030 renewable energy mandate is set to become law, as Governor Larry Hogan has stated that he will not veto the measure. However, rumblings are arising that the popular GOP everyman will have a clean energy mandate of his own coming in the next calendar year.

State regulators: The next lobbying front in the solar revolution

In this op-ed for pv magazine Tony Clifford explains the key role that state public service commissions have in shaping policy for solar, and why it is necessary for the solar industry to have an effective presence there.

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