Massachusetts

While installers on the company’s online solar marketplace had previously offered loans, EnergySage will now being offering loans directly from three providers.

Despite repeatedly interfering with solar development in its home state of Virginia, the electricity-generation giant continues to build solar plants in other states.

As the first in a new series of weekly editorials, pv magazine Americas Editor Christian Roselund highlights some of the current battles that are taking place at the state level.

There was A LOT of important news last week, so you can’t possibly have seen it all. When stories fall through the cracks, we catch them — and then we bring them to you in a collection we call Looking back.

The move is part of a trend of solar developers adding additional energy management services, referred to as “solar+”.

Ameresco, the energy efficiency and renewable energy company, has won a $20 million energy management system contract from Roxbury Community College, including a 1 MW solar array.

National Grid had requested up to 5x and 3x increases on fixed charges for residential and commercial customers, as well as a new charge for community and government solar.

This week we saw policy wins in California and New York City, as well as some good signs from Nevada and a promising policy in Massachusetts – not to mention documentation of a big fall in solar costs.

GameChange Solar provided precast ballasted PV ground systems installed on five landfills in Massachusetts.

The proposed policy to follow SREC-2 will feature a bonus paid per kilowatt-hour delivered, through a declining block grant schedule. Details have not been finalized at this time.