Policy

Hello to you on this fine Wednesday morning and thanks for checking out the pv magazine morning brief. Today we’re taking a look at the violence caused by climate change, Kaco’s new monitoring portal and Recycle PV Solar, COSEIA and AriSEIA getting in on a pv module recycling promotion partnership and much much more.

Texas regulators have ruled that any renewable generation source connected to the state’s HVAC grid does not have to account for marginal losses, as the market turbulence it would cause isn’t worth the benefit, and it would go against the original spirit of the project.

The California Senator/presidential hopeful and the media mogul/former New York Mayor are the latest and some of the highest-profile individuals to back the climate-jobs-infrastructure-social safety net concept, of which 100% renewable energy might be the least ambitious component.

PosiGen has raised $90 million from the Connecticut Green Bank for a credit facility to fund low- to moderate- income households, which represent 42% of residential buildings in the United States.

State regulators are allowing Dominion to bill its electric customers for the costs of two plants, while providing the renewable energy credits to Facebook. The approval includes a performance clause, wherein the utility will pay if the plant doesn’t deliver as expected.

Consumers Energy has asked Michigan regulators to suspend solar power interconnection applications as the increase in applications was “substantial, and too sudden, to allow to Company to respond” with appropriate resources.

Per an analysis by Vibrant Clean Energy, it’ll take approximately 2.8 GW of solar power, 8 GW of wind and 765 MW / 3 GWh of energy storage to allow Colorado to shut down its 4 GW of coal by 2025, while also lowering electric rates by 5%.

Happy Friday. In today’s pv magazine USA morning brief Forefront Power and Arcadia Energy are moving through 75 MW of community solar in New York, Florida Governor Desantis is lacking renewables, and solar is still exponential.

EIA’s long-term projections remain stubbornly immune to reality. And the biggest problem is the potential collapse of civilization if we extract and burn anywhere near as much coal, gas and oil as the agency forecasts.

Hello, happy Thursday and welcome to the pv magazine USA morning brief. Today we’ll be taking a look at Fitch Ratings downgrading the Solar Star project, the question of if the public is willing to pay to help fix climate change, and a really cool video about Colorado’s largest battery.