Guest Column: The Maryland override victory was great – now what’s next?
Standard Solar’s Tony Clifford says yesterday’s veto override of Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan’s veto of the Clean Energy Jobs Act was a great (though not entirely unexpected) start to growing the state’s solar industry, it can’t be the end game. In this essay, he discusses what he thinks the next Maryland solar industry goal should be.
Xcel commissions 62.25 MW Minnesota solar farm
The utility, one of the Midwest’s biggest, now owns the two largest solar project in the region, both located in the Land of 10,000 Lakes.
Dynapower and Samsung SDI roll out integrated behind-the-meter energy storage system.
This line of systems will incorporate Dynapower’s recently released Generation 2 MPS product line of behind-the-meter energy storage inverters and Samsung SDI’s recently released E2 battery solution. The initial release of the joint system will be a 250 kW/550 kWh offering, with a 100 kW two-hour system to follow.
Ten K Solar’s EnergySketch Design Tool Goes Live
Minneapolis-based Ten K Solar has launched its live project modeling tool, EnergySketch, to enable user-friendly project design from modeling data, with free registration.
JinkoSolar supplied modules for 140 MW PV plant in Minnesota
Chinese PV manufacturing giant, JinkoSolar, was chosen to supply its 72-cell solar modules to the North Star Solar project in Minnesota, U.S., which will be the largest solar plant in the American Midwest once it is connected to the grid later in the year.
Baptists will spread the solar gospel
Through a partnership with Geostellar and Together, the Progressive National Baptist Convention will offer community solar programs to communities where their churches are
GameChange Near 100 MW in Minnesota
GameChange Solar, of New York, announced that installations of its Max-Span pile driven systems in the hot Minnesota market year to date now total 98 MW.
DOE invests $21 million to speed solar adoption
The money will go to 17 projects designed to reduce soft costs and maximize solar’s benefits for states.
Swinerton, D.E. Shaw complete the largest solar plant in the Midwest
Xcel Energy will buy power from the 100 MW-AC North Star Solar facility in Minnesota.
Xcel to add 1.4 GW of solar PV in Minnesota by 2030
Regulators have approved the utility’s long-term plan, under which Xcel expects to buy power from around 650 MW of community solar by 2021.
