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.
Tesla/Panasonic begin battery cell production at Nevada Gigafactory
The factory is producing lithium-ion batteries both for Tesla’s energy storage products and electric vehicles
Nevada regulators reinstate net metering for Sierra Pacific
In contrast to phony allegations of a cost shift, Public Utilities Commission of Nevada found that net metered-solar is saving other customers money.
Solar receives transmission boost in the West
As part of President Obama’s Climate Action Plan to cut carbon pollution and create clean energy jobs, U.S. Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell approved two transmission lines to deliver energy across Southwest.
NextEra & First Solar commission 250 MW-AC project in Nevada
Does this mean that the age of mega-solar projects is over at last?
Nevada takes first step to break NV Energy monopoly
On Tuesday, Nevadans passed a constitutional amendment that could shatter the state’s biggest monopoly’s stranglehold on electricity production in the state as soon as 2018
Vote Solar and Earthjustice appeal Nevada court decision in bid to revive net metering
The organizations are challenging a court ruling which ordered the grandfathering of net-metered customers, but ignored the regulatory decision which dismantled net metering.
From the editor: Big choices
Next Tuesday’s elections are a big deal for the solar industry – including key policy contests and races in Florida, Arizona and Nevada.
42 States (and DC) try to screw with solar
The 50 States of Solar Policy Report by the NC Clean Energy Technology Center documents 117 separate actions that changed or attempted to change various policies affecting the solar industry
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.
