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Job moves in solar, storage, cleantech, utilities, and energy transition finance.

Competitive Power Ventures wants to build the Backbone Solar Farm on about 1,100 acres in far western Maryland.

Also on the rise: GE Renewables is supplying technology to a solar+storage facility, and NREL researchers are rethinking cell design to help integrate solar on building facades.

The electric vehicle provider would more fully control its supply chain with the addition of the 5 GWh production facility.

We Energies, Wisconsin Public Service, and Madison Gas and Electric want to add 325 MW of solar+storage, building on earlier plans to add a 310 MW project.

Solar advocates said the investor-owned utility proposal would hurt the state’s residential solar market and shift power from consumers to corporations.

Also in the rise: Partners will test a large-scale vehicle-to-grid charging system, Canadian Solar funds a startup whose focus is on the rest of the world, Griddy files for Chapter 11 after ERCOT mess, and Daqo signs a supply agreement with a new wafer manufacturer.

Here are the brand-new stats and forecasts from the Solar Energy Industries Association and Wood Mackenzie.

Both set to clock in at 75 MW, the projects are a part of the utility’s bigger goal of quadrupling the amount of in-service solar on its system over the next four years.

The utility alleged that ERCOT “ran up $20 billion in charges” for five days of energy supply due to its “lack of oversight, preparedness, and failure to follow its own protocols.”