Turmoil in residential solar
After years of steady, relentless growth, the U.S. residential solar market is struggling with challenges on both the policy and customer acquisition fronts. And as the market diversifies away from California and the Northeast, the future is far from clear.
Wind and solar outstrip state renewable energy mandates (w/ charts)
A new report by Berkeley Lab also finds that solar is increasingly being used to meet state-level renewable energy requirements, while overall deployment of renewables is increasingly driven by other factors.
Does Trump know government isn’t a feeding trough?
For someone who promised to “drain the swamp,” the president seems hellbent on filling the Department of Energy with his Wall Street cronies and walking, talking conflicts of interest.
BREAKING: Judge approves SunEdison final disposition plan (full decision embedded)
More than a year after the world’s largest renewable energy developer went under, Judge Stuart Bernstein has approved a deal that will allow it to emerge from bankruptcy proceedings over the objections of shareholders and two investors.
The Panoche Valley Solar Farm gets downsized
Under a settlement with environmentalists, 117 MW of the mammoth 247 MW project planned for Central California’s Coast Range will move to the Imperial Valley.
Cypress Creek secures $450 million in funding
“This agreement accelerates our mission to put as much solar in the ground as soon as possible”
California judge backs blocking utility’s TOU rates plan
Southern California Edison’s plans to move customers to time-of-use rates in 2018 have hit a snag as Administrative Law Judge Sophia J. Park has recommended to the PUC that it delay their implementation. A final decision could come Aug. 24.
Coalition coalesces around fighting Suniva’s Section 201 trade case
An extensive and diverse group of activists have banded together to form the Energy Trade Action Coalition and vow to lobby Congress, President Trump and the U.S. International Trade Commission to derail the petition.
Court upholds strict scope for duties on Chinese, Taiwanese imports
A pair of court rulings has shot down challenges by a range of solar manufacturers related to the details of 2014 import duties on solar products from China and Taiwan.
Solar drives up evening wholesale prices in California
The duck curve is real, and is driving up prices and increasing ramping requirements in the evening.
