All-terrain tracking systems: optimizing the production value of variable terrain
In this op-ed, Yezin Taha of Nevados Engineering introduces all-terrain tracking as a potentially superior solution for sites with sloped terrain.
Enphase wants to be your home energy butler
During the second quarter Enphase shipped over 1.2 million microinverters totaling 416 MW, which upped revenue 77% year on year, and swung net income from a loss of almost $3.7 million to a profit of $11 million.
Microsoft is on a solar shopping spree
The tech giant has signed a power contract for the output of First Solar’s 150 MWac Sun Streams 2 solar plant, bringing its total procurement of solar to nearly 500 MW – but none of these projects have been completed yet.
Batteries to sell into ISO-NE wholesale market, Chattanooga’s 100% solar-powered airport: pvMB 07/31/19
Hello and welcome to today’s pvMB. Sunrun is bringing its solar + storage solution to Dallas and Houston, Elon Musk hopes that Solar Roof production will hit 1K per week, 63% of poll respondents think the Green New Deal is a “good idea”, and more!
California could restrict who can install energy storage
CALSSA says that a pending vote by the Contractors State License Board which could restrict most solar contractors from installing batteries could have “catastrophic” impacts on the state’s energy storage market.
Megapack marks Tesla’s new play for utility scale storage
The Palo Alto company says it has improved its large scale battery offering with the new product in the wake of the success of its Powerpack-driven big battery in Australia. The Megapack can be deployed at a 250 MW/1 GWh clean energy plant four times faster than a fossil fuel alternative, claimed the business in a blogpost.
CNN to host town hall on the climate crisis, Solar microgrid saves wedding: pvMB 7/30/19
Hello all of you wonderful people and welcome to the pvMB. Today we’ve got our eyes on Georgia Power’s solar+storage Smart Neighborhood, a scathing op-ed regarding HB 6 and more!
APS announces wind, solar RFP amid pressure for 100% clean energy
The Arizona utility has announced two solicitations that will increase its renewable energy portfolio to 2.5 GW by 2021, as a coalition of more than two dozen groups submits a proposal for a shift to 100% clean energy.
Wind, solar, batteries and carbon taxes in California and Texas
Researchers show how deploying 60 GW of renewables using various types of energy storage and carbon tax values in California and Texas increase CO2 reductions, while lowering electricity curtailment – but in vastly different amounts.
Solar brings in the big bucks for local governments
A new report from North Carolina Sustainable Energy Association shows the dramatic increase in tax revenue that solar projects bring. And for the future of development, this money talks, loudly.
