California

Arevon Energy is developing the project for the community choice aggregator.

pv magazine USA spotlights news stories of the past week including market trends, project updates, policy changes and more.

Also on the rise: California ruling requires assessment of public health and environment in renewable portfolio standards, New Mexico upholds community solar, and more.

The California Energy Center must now assess costs and benefits related to health and environmental externalities of energy generation and transmission.

The 15 MW / 38 MWh Viejas Microgrid is the first project to be offered a conditional commitment through the Tribal Energy Financing Program.

There may be a global solar boom but a drastic revision of California’s net metering program has ruptured the industry overnight and is affecting everyone from installers to financiers to makers of power electronics, as Tristan Rayner reports.

Lyten reports its batteries offer double the energy density of those made from traditional lithium-ion chemistries due to their graphene cell.  

The transition to California’s new net metering, ‘NEM 3.0,’ regime was justified, in part, as a way to support residential energy storage installations but the state policy has pushed rooftop solar off a cliff.

Also on the rise: U.S. solar industry week in review. U.S. expected to outpace Europe in lithium-ion battery cells. And more.

The Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA) released an overview of the top states for solar installation last year.