What’s TVA going to build? Wouldn’t you like to know.
The federally-owned power company has responded to critiques of its planning by presenting a vague long-term vision, but in its central plan expects to build only 2-3 GW of new solar over the next decade.
Enphase begins tariff-free shipments from Mexico, TVA caps solar in final plan: pvMB 07/01/19
In today’s brief we also feature conditions on Dominion’s future IRPs and some tax benefits recognized from Georgia solar.
Alabama’s largest solar project has an offtaker, Pedernales Co-op’s first battery project: pvMB 5/29/19
Hello from sunny Atlanta and, more importantly, Solar Power Southeast 2019. Today we’ll be hitting you, figuratively, with Eagle Point Solar’s lawsuit in Wisconsin, Executive changes at PJM Interconnection, Tennessee’s largest landfill project and everything else you can handle.
Fire at Tennessee polysilicon fab, NJ man scams the feds for $3 million in solar rebates: pvMB 05/06/19
It’s Monday, and it is pvMB time. Today in addition to the dark news in the headline, we also bring you three new directors at Rocky Mountain Institute, and record levels of solar curtailment in California this April.
A free solar future, drones patrolling the skies above solar farms: pvMB 5/2/19
Welcome, welcome to this Thursday’s pvMB. Today we’ll be checking out Suntuity’s free solar giveaway, Brooklyn Solar Canopies going south, sPower and Cypress Creek alleging project blocking by Consumers, the launch of the Atlas platform and all the rest of today’s ultra-important solar news.
Tennessee’s largest project goes online, $1.4 billion coming to renewables in N.Y.: pvMB 4/24/19
Hello and welcome one and all to the pvMB. Today we’ll be taking a look at Duke buying big to the tune of a 150 MW solar project, Excelsior Energy also buying, with a 25 MW acquisition and Alta Device’s flexible solar cell for unmanned aircraft.
Florida closing in on Southeast solar supremacy
The Southern Alliance for Clean Energy’s second annual Solar in the Southeast report shows that while North Carolina is still top dog in the region, a strong 2018 pushed Florida past Georgia and poised the state to take the top spot.
Solar sandbagged in draft TVA resource plan
By using high projected costs for solar, low costs for natural gas, and capping solar installations at 500 MW per year, the Tennessee Valley Authority “did not optimize for what is best for Tennessee Valley residents,” says a citizens group.
Tennessee seeks 200 MWac of renewables + energy storage
TVA has launched a solicitation for renewable energy projects with a minimum size of 2 MW, noting a preference for energy storage. The request for proposal pricing structure takes into account energy storage, seasonal and time of day pricing.
pvMD 3/28/19: Community solar proposed for Duck Island, NJ, 6 MW of battery systems in Arkansas… and more!
Hello, and welcome to your Thursday pvMB. The weekend is almost here. Today we’ll be looking at BlueCross BlueShield installing 10,000 solar panels at its Chattanooga HQ, Hawaii’s solar trash cans, futuristic Dutch solar houseboats and everything else that matters today.
