Job moves at DOE, Enel, Trina, FERC, Engie, Sunpower, PG&E
Executive and boardroom moves in solar, storage, cleantech, utilities and energy finance.
Panasonic suspending work at Tesla Nevada factory as California and New York gigafactories shut down
Tesla’s Nevada operation is still open for business. The EV and battery maker assures the market that its cash position is strong enough to weather an “extended period of uncertainty.”
Morning Brief: 350 MW project in Texas sold, Trina begins mass production of 500 W panels
Also in the brief: financing for a massive Texas project, distributed portfolio expansion in the DMV, Duke waives fees amid COVID crisis and more.
Podcast experts talk about clean energy stories and success in podcasting
The interviewers get interviewed on this episode of #Solar100 from kWh Analytics. The leading podcasters in the renewable energy world talk about their mission and success in this medium. We hear from Emily Kirsch of Powerhouse, Stephen Lacey of Post Script Audio and Norton Rose Fulbright’s Todd Alexander.
ACORE calls on Congress for tax credit extension amid COVID-19 uncertainty
ACORE and five other environmental and renewable energy groups have written to Congress urging for start construction and safe harbor deadline extensions, as well as tax credits for stand-alone energy storage to relieve any industry hardships brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic.
Hot electrons? Surface plasmons? Thin-film solar innovation marches on
Thin-film solar startup PI Energy didn’t disclose the photovoltaic materials system it’s been commercializing, other than to say that it wasn’t CIGS, CdTe, or perovskites.
Study of 100,000 arrays finds proactive O&M preferable
The US National Renewable Energy Laboratory examined five-year data to observe the most common system failure points and how to prevent them. Researchers considered residential, commercial and utility scale plants and found interesting results. While failures cannot be avoided completely, a key takeaway was that close monitoring and timely repair can effectively mitigate the financial effects of failures.
Morning Brief: Rare Utah earthquake knocks out power to 55,000
Rocky Mountain Power must respond to a natural disaster while social distancing. Plus, New York is good, but NIMBY about solar.
NEXTracker completes the largest solar tracker supply deal in history
NEXTracker has fulfilled the contract terms of a 3.4 GW tracker supply deal signed with 174 Power Global in the second half of 2019. The shipment represents more than 11% of all tracker systems shipped in 2019.
Analyst expects recovery for PV and storage supply chains
Analyst Wood Mackenzie expects solar demand to decline but predicts the market will recover, with the prospects for the energy transition remaining intact.
