Colorado passes bill to speed up solar permitting, inspection
HB-1234 provides nearly $1,000,000 to help local governments streamline solar permitting and inspection to support solar adoption.
Sunnova doubles customer count in Q1 2023
The solar and energy-as-a-service company recorded more than 5,000 of new customers in Puerto Rico, representing its second highest market after California, where it added 5,512 new customers.
UL and NREL set cybersecurity standards for distributed energy, inverters
UL 2941 provides testable requirements for energy storage and generation technologies on the distribution grid. The new cybersecurity protocol provides a framework for photovoltaic inverters, EV chargers, wind turbines, fuel cells and other distributed resources.
National laboratory software models lithium-ion battery supply chain
The National Renewable Energy Laboratory tool surveys how changes in costs, battery adoption scenarios, and international actions affect long-term trends in the battery supply chain.
“Revolutionizing” agrivoltaic design software with Spade
Solar developer and federal grant recipient Sandbox Solar has released a beta version of its agrivoltaic power plant software modeling tool that aids in the design and optimization of solar panels and the crops underneath.
Sunnova files for $3.3 billion Department of Energy loan
The company looks to greatly expand its rollout of solar virtual power plant services.
Technology toolkit: Solar siting, permitting and land use
pv magazine USA connected with the founders of Transect and Paces AI, both of which provide tools to enable automated permitting, due diligence and siting solutions for the community solar and distributed generation project development market, as well as utility and grid stakeholders.
Sunnova to deploy solar and storage virtual power plant in Texas
The company will partner with David Energy, a retail energy provider. Virtual power plants enable distributed resources to work in tandem to better respond to electricity grid demand.
Raptor Maps points to growing problem of PV system underperformance
Raptor Maps analyzed 24.5 GW of large-scale solar assets and determined that power losses due to equipment anomalies nearly doubled from 1.61% in 2019 to 3.13% in 2022. At the module level, cell and diode anomalies were the most common issues, it said.
Distributed generation finance platform raises $25 million
Banyan Infrastructure is raising a $25 million Series B equity round from Energize Ventures, SE Ventures and Elemental Excelerator to digitize the manual process of procuring project finance between banks, investors and project developers.
