Money for nothing (except ground-breaking clean-energy ideas)
With help from the California Sustainable Energy Entrepreneur Development (CalSEED) initiative, the California Energy Commission is calling all enterprising clean-energy entrepreneurs to submit proposals to get a piece of $24 million to bring their ideas to fruition.
$1 B-plus San Vicente pumped hydro plan flows forward
San Diego County Water Authority (SDCWA) has requested letters of interest due in February for the design and business model for the proposed 500 MW San Vicente Energy Storage Facility, which could include PV energy to pump water to the dam.
EDF snags PPA for 111.2 MW California solar plant
The Valentine Solar Project, located in Kern County’s Mojave Desert, is expected to start selling electricity to Southern California Edison in 2019.
Corporations covet clean-energy choices
A new report by the Retail Industry Leaders Association (RILA) and the Information Technology Industry Council (ITI) indicates businesses want to settle in states with good clean-energy infrastructures.
Sunnova broadens its zero-down loan reach
The EZ Own Loan program is designed to capitalize on the increasing desire of residential solar customers to own their systems without worrying about the trouble of maintaining them.
sPower Connects Nearly 500 MW to grid in 65 days
The independent power producer reached 1 GW of operating solar projects before the calendar turned to 2017.
CALSEIA names ‘right person’ to presidency in ‘uncertain times’
Ed Murray, CEO and president of Sacramento, Calif., based Aztec Solar, says he’ll use his position to protect and expand solar in the state, as well as lead the charge in the fight against Climate Change.
SCE awaits third energy storage unit approval
Southern California Edison (SCE) is awaiting approval from the California PUC for the third unit within its 27 MW of lithium-ion storage plans. The utility filed in late December with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission for a Generator Interconnection Agreement with the third of the three, the PPA Grand Johanna LLC for a 2 MW/8MWh storage project called Grand Johanna.
Tesla/Panasonic Gigafactory to begin producing PV modules in summer 2017
Panasonic also take over capital costs at the new factory in Buffalo, and its HIT technology will be used in the Solar Roof product
sPower puts 60 MW of solar PV online for Palo Alto’s municipal utility
The completion of two projects comes in the middle of a flurry of activity for the Utah-based developer.
