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In doing so, First Solar places themselves alongside Exelon Corp., a direct competitor

The predicted fall in global PV module prices appears to have already begun, with PV Insights and EnergyTrend reporting average prices in the $0.27-$0.37 cent per watt range.

The Michigan utility is taking on an aggressive expansion of solar power, wind and energy storage in hopes to reduce its emissions to 20% of 2005 levels.

A group pushing the measure got more than double the number of signatures needed to bring the renewable energy mandate increase directly to the state’s voters on November 6.

The latest ambitious goal in America’s most renewable-aggressive state is the first to focus strictly on solar.

In the wake of the Section 201 tariffs, the United States is seeing a minor renaissance in solar module manufacturing. However, in terms of why this is happening, the tariffs are only one part of a more complicated story.

The Southern developer has signed a deal to sell power to Green Power EMC from another 194 MW-AC of solar projects which it is building in the state.

In this op-ed for pv magazine, Will Driscoll outlines the plans of several large U.S. cities to power government buildings entirely with renewable energy.

The New York State Assembly has passed a bill which would temporarily put a hold on the alternative valuation of electricity from community solar projects and re-institute net metering for three years. The companion bill currently sits in Senate Rules Committee.

The sale brings in $240 million for First Solar and $360 million for SunPower, as both companies re-focus on manufacturing. Capital Dynamics now owns the yieldco.