A pocket chart to maximize solar power deployment
Researchers have built a matrix outlining how solar power in various deployment models generates benefits greater than just clean electricity. This will help policy makers maximize energy decisions with limited resources.
Waste heat is not cool, say scientists
Engineers at the University of Utah have developed a tiny device which they say could increase the performance of PV panels and other electronic devices by converting energy lost as heat back into electricity.
Duke Energy hits 1 GW owned solar, 74.5 MW coming to Escambia: pvMB 7/3/19
Hello and welcome to your July 3rd pvMB! Today we’ll be tackling Bloom Energy going hydrogen, a jet fuel burning plant shutdown in Oakland, RPCS’ safe harbor strategy for ITC stepdown and more. Enjoy your holiday!
Solar coming to Baltimore County govt., North Carolina utility Commission’s new chair: pvMB 6/5/19
Hello and welcome to your Hump Day MB, where we’ll be looking at the potential solving of LID, LevelTEn Energy raising $20.5 million in funding, the verification of CAISO as a reliability coordinator and much more!
Scientists see global PV rocketing to 10 terawatts by 2030, for starters
A Science journal article describes how to reach “a future with ~10 terawatts of PV by 2030 and 30 to 70 terawatts by 2050, providing a majority of global energy.”
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.
A 7th grader’s prize-winning solar project, Canadian Solar secures $50 Million: pvMB 5/16/19
Hello one and all to the Thursday edition of the pvMB. Today we’ll be looking at Anheuser-Busch’s new 2.7 MW solar system at its New York brewery, Pivot’s awarding of 11 community solar projects in Illinois, Recurrent Energy selling its Mustang plant and more!
Designing for and monetizing curtailed solar power
Research by NREL and First Solar has produced highly accurate, real-time estimates of available aggregate peak power that a curtailed solar power plant can deliver to support the broader needs of the grid.
The Renewable U right for you
A recently published report by Environment America and the Frontier Group takes a look at which schools are leading the charge in the renewable transition, as dozens of colleges and universities now obtain 100% or more of their electricity from renewable sources.
The Solar Decathlon winner designs solar+lifestyle living space
Virginia students have won the 2019 Solar Decathlon Design Challenge with their treeHAUS highly sustainable solar+storage+trees+food waste+sound and so much more design, focused on expanding their local campus’ student housing resources.
