Solar gains a toehold at an iconic Oil Patch crossroads
Cushing is home to one of the world’s largest oil-storage tank farms, and is the price point for West Texas Intermediate crude, a global benchmark. A Tulsa company now plans to build 40 MW of solar capacity there.
Lending platform Mosaic adds $1.5 billion multi-year loan program
The new financing is expected to help more than 100,000 homeowners afford sustainable energy and home improvement projects.
OMCO Solar to provide 15 MW of trackers to Arkansas projects
The deal came through the company’s second partnership with Entegrity Energy Partners.
SunPower brings two brownfield projects to Baltimore
The solar energy projects are expected to offset around one-third of the electric demand of the county’s public buildings.
5 state policy actions that are shaping distributed solar’s future
Forty-two states plus D.C. took a total of 155 actions related to distributed solar policy and rate design in the first quarter, with nearly a third related to distributed generation compensation rules.
Energy transition jobs: SolarEdge, TVA, NYSERDA, and more
Job moves in solar, storage, cleantech, utilities, and energy transition finance.
Add electric vehicles, not bulk transmission, for a low-cost, clean grid: UC Berkeley study
A 90% clean grid with a transition to EVs would achieve lower electricity costs than one without, the study shows. Transmission investments would mainly be spur lines to new renewable generation.
Texas is poised for major growth in solar energy, EIA says
Much of the new utility-scale solar will be in West Texas where transmission capacity that benefits wind resources is helping to spur solar development.
Citing increased threat, DOE launches a 100-day cyber security initiative
DOE reinstated EO 13920, and Energy Secretary Granholm said the U.S. faces a “well-documented and increasing cyber threat” from malicious actors.
Hershey secures 70 MW of solar to meet its emission reduction goals
Two projects, one in North Carolina and the other in Texas, will keep the candy maker on track to cut its emissions by more than 50% by 2030.
