Georgia keeps the utility solar train rolling
Ground has officially broken on NextEra Energy Resources’ Quitman Solar facility in Brooks County, Georgia, but as exciting as this is, the fact still stands that the only solar Georgia knows is utility.
REC Silicon can’t say when polysilicon lines will start up again
The Norwegian polysilicon supplier – which has most of its manufacturing operations on U.S. soil – cannot give any estimate on when its production of polysilicon for solar will return, and has been left entirely dependent on the semiconductor products made by its Montana facility.
5-year ITC extension introduced in U.S. House, Senate
The twin bills would extend the 30% Investment Tax Credit (ITC) for another five years, with an identical step-down schedule.
The billion-dollar battery boom
Corporations are buying up batteries and investing in their companies like it’s going out of style.
The bones of Skeleton Creek are coming together
NextEra has announced a power purchase agreement with Western Farmers Electric Cooperative for a combined 250 MW wind farm, 250 MWac solar farm, and 200 MW / 800 MWh of energy storage in Oklahoma.
Solar + batteries help the grid recover in Kaua’i
After experiencing cascading outages across its conventional fleet and cloudy weather impairing its solar output, the island is back on-line and solar and batteries are helping to meet demand while its largest power plant is being repaired.
The people vs. HB 6, Con Edison reaches 250 MW installed: pvMB 7/25/19
Two things are absolutley certain right now. It’s Thursday and you’re reading the pvMB. Today we’ll be looking at Independent developers dominating the NC solar auction, Sunnova announcing share prices, the very cool LightSail 2 spacecraft and more!
Target defends its crown as largest adopter of on-site corporate solar power
The top on-site home for corporate solar remains the same in SEIA’s 2018 Solar Means Business Report, but new challengers have entered, as the report includes off-site solar for the first time.
Tesla results: solar down, batteries up
Elon Musk’s EV and energy company is becoming increasingly irrelevant in the rooftop solar market, but battery sales are booming.
NextEra reaches record development in Q2
The power company’s project backlog has never been bigger and this is just one piece in an expectedly strong finish to the first half of the year.
