Solar installation quality can be illusive
Cadmus Group is working to standardize PV installation inspections and is building a database of common installation errors.
Groups plan creative “Lights Out” protest of TEP solar rate hike
Tucson Electric Power’s planned demand charges and extra fees, levied solely on solar customers, has led conservation groups to ask the city’s residents to turn off all their lights tonight at 8:30 p.m. local time in protest.
Xcel plans transition from coal to solar, wind, gas and storage in Colorado
The utility has the support of Vote Solar and Colorado SEIA as part of a broad coalition backing its Colorado Energy Plan.
Perovskite has changed its status to single (cell)
In another breakthrough for the material so many solar advocates hope will replace traditional silicon in module production, a group of scientists in China and the United States have produced the first monocrystalline perovskite cell, which could accelerate its acceptance as a silicon replacement.
Storage saves
Sustaining the market: As the leading solar state in America, California’s behind-the-meter solar markets are seeing challenges as they explore new terrain. CALSEIA’s Bernadette Del Chiaro explains how the industry is navigating these changes, and what to expect in the future.
Duke agrees to build 700 MW of solar, 50 MW of energy storage in Florida
The agreement with large C&I customers, the state’s ratepayer advocate and environmentalists also settles costs from the abandoned Levy County Nuclear Plant.
Energy storage could save money for up to 5 million U.S. businesses (w/charts)
A new study by NREL finds widespread availability of rates with high demand charges for commercial customers, meaning that businesses across the country could save money with energy storage.
RMP, Utah solar advocates reach net metering agreement
Existing net metering customers are grandfathered into the current net metering arrangement for 18 years, while ending net metering for customers installing solar after Nov. 15. After that, a three-year transition to a program based on a value of solar methodology will commence.
Demand charge decision looms in Massachusetts
In three days, the Massachusetts Department of Public Utilities (DPU) will close the public comment period on utility Eversource’s plan to impose a demand charge on solar customers.
Battle between ideologies could determine trade case’s fate
According to reports, President Donald J. Trump’s economic nationalism is at war with his advisors’ market fundamentalism. Here’s what the outcome of that conflict could mean for the solar trade case.
