Ralph Lauren joins RE100, a solar Six Flags: pvMB 12/3/19
Hello everybody and welcome to the pvMB. Today we’ve got for you a residential solar company scamming customers, POWERHOME Solar showing out at the Biz Awards, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez speaking out against unlawful union firings and more!
Suncast Episode 199 – Aurora Solar founder Sam Adeyemo LIVE IN SF
In front of a live audience at the Aurora headquarters in San Francisco last month, Nico johnson sat down with Aurora Solar founder Sam Adeyemo for a late-Thanksgiving special.
6 GW for New York by 2025, PG&E keeps paying: pvMB 11/27/19
Hello one and all and because we won’t be around to say it tomorrow, Happy Thanksgiving! Today, however, we’ve got ConncetGen’s new CEO, Brownfields in Minnesota and more!
Springbok foreshadows Capital Dynamics upcoming development dominance
The 450 MWdc cluster is finally fully operational in California, heralding the start of a Capital Dynamics project pipeline that encompasses multiple GW across the utility and C&I spaces.
NextEnergy buys big in North Carolina, project proposals flood Hawaii: pvMB 11/21/19
Hello one and all and welcome to your morning brief! Today we’ve got a grid modeling webinar, fertilizer created by solar, Sungrow storage in Florida and more!
Changing climate, changing laws: addressing new wildfire risk requirements in project development
in this op-ed for pv magazine, David Lazerwitz and Linda Sobczynski of Farella Braun + Martel examine the levels of precaution necessary to ensure fire risk mitigation in project development.
Calling all California solar and storage developers – 6,000+ systems, 32 MW+ request for proposals
Four California CCAs have combined to release a joint RFP in Alameda, San Mateo and Santa Clara counties for developers to build out distributed energy storage at local homes, multifamily properties, and commercial buildings that can keep the locations running when the grid is powered down.
California home solar mandate tightened, community solar definition needed
The California Energy Commission has delayed a decision on a utility proposal to use large-scale solar to meet pending solar home mandate requirements, with commissioner comments suggesting a refinement of the community solar aspect of the mandate is coming.
PPAs for the lay people, the first-ever Solar Games: pvMB 11/13/19
Hello wonderful readers and welcome to the pvMB, where today we shall be looking at NeoVolta’s Iron Phosphate Energy Storage System, Vision Solar expanding to Orlando, DroneDeploy raising $35 million and more!
California sees solar+storage domination by 2030 with 11 GW / 44 GWh of batteries
The state’s 2019 IRP sees just over 11 GW solar power, and at least 11 GW – with up to 19 GW – of energy storage necessary to meet resource adequacy as part of the state’s legally required 60% renewable portfolio standard by 2030 as prices have fallen 50% since 2017.
