Utah utility’s rate proposal sparks passionate public backlash
Rocky Mountain Power’s new rate structure, which goes before the public service commission today, would charge new solar customers fees to cover a mythical cost-shift — inviting public scrutiny of what it sees as the utility’s attack on solar energy
Enphase offloads residential O&M arm to SunSystem Technology
The U.S. microinverter specialist confirms that SunSystem Technology will act as the company’s primary residential O&M service provider after selling its O&M field service division Next Phase Solar.
NRDC report says U.S. clean-energy transition unstoppable
Renewable-energy sources now cost less than fossil-fuel ones in many places, and consumers are voting with their wallets
Australian researchers produce 12% efficient, 16cm2 perovskite PV cell
University of New South Wales researchers have achieved the highest efficiency for a perovskite PV cell of its size to date.
New Jersey extends it Solar For All program
The approval allows the Public Service Electric and Gas Co. (PSE&G) to invest another $80 million over the next three years to transform the state’s landfills and brownfields into solar farms
TerraForm Power gives January deadline for bids, warns shareholders about its ability to continue
The yieldco says that bidders must provide firm pricing by a defined date in January, as it allows the offer of an expedited takeover by Brookfield and Appaloosa to lapse.
Vermont deploys its first municipally owned solar farms
The Green Mountain State cities of Stowe and Hyde Park have installed the state’s first two community-solar projects owned by the towns themselves
Environment America issues Block The Sun report
Despite solar’s growing role in electricity production in the United States, it often finds itself under attack by utilities threatened by its growth. A new report outlines strategies to fend off these attacks and keep the solar industry expanding
Illinois energy bill passes without demand charges or repeal of net metering
SB 2814 includes reforms to the state’s renewable energy mandate, which will now support an estimated 2.0 GW of solar by 2025, as well as a bailout for aging nuclear plants.
JKB supplies 280 kW ag system in West Sacramento
Walnut grower River Oak Orchards expects to cut its PG&E utility costs by 75.8 percent and save over $63,000 every year with the 880 panels it has supported by the Mounting Systems fixed ground mount system.
