Massachusetts OKs residential demand charges for Eversource
In a move they acknowledge is “atypical” and outside of the usual ratemaking procedures of the state, the Massachusetts Department of Public Utilities has approved demand charges on residential rooftop solar customers.
Cypress Creek constructs 1 GW of solar in 18 months
The developer continues its nationwide expansion, building 800 MW of solar capacity in North Carolina, South Carolina, Oregon, Texas, Maryland, Massachusetts, Minnesota, New York and Vermont alone.
UMass scientists boost polymer-chain storage efficiency
A team from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst (UMass) have developed a polymer based energy storage system, which releases energy on demand as heat. The scientists say that their system utilizes a polymer chain ‘organized like a string of Christmas lights’ and can achieve more than double the storage density of previous polymer based systems.
Solar is meeting more than 10% of electric demand in three states
During the first nine months of 2017, Hawaii and Nevada joined California among the club of states that get more than 10% of their power from solar.
That’s SMART: Massachusetts solicits 100 MW of solar under new program
After more than a year of negotiations, input and intense lobbying from solar advocates, the Bay State is requesting bids to build the first 100 MW of new solar projects under the state’s new SMART program.
Solar and energy storage in New England: It’s complicated
Greentech Media’s Solar and Storage Symposium looked at the big picture in terms of policies and markets, in a region where complexity reigns.
Massachusetts’ opportunity to get SMART about solar
In this op-ed Vote Solar takes a look at what it will take to keep up the momentum of Massachusetts’ solar market.
Hannon Armstrong bets on solar, issues $164 million in green bonds
The investment group will use the bonds to refinance the land leases it holds under 57 solar projects totaling 1.2 GW in capacity.
MIT researchers develop ‘air breathing’ sulfur flow battery
A team at Massachusetts Institute of Technology has developed a type of battery which it says could store energy for long durations at a fraction of the cost of current storage technologies.
Massachusetts net metering caps strand $78 million in plans
According to the Solar Energy Industries Association, 124 projects are in Kafkaesque limbo because of the state’s low net metering caps. Today, SEIA and its Massachusetts allies will lobby to raise the caps to 5%, which it predicts would lead to 1 GW of solar being installed by 2022.
