sonnen steals top Tesla executive
The German energy-storage company hired the highest-ranking North American sales manager from Tesla to spearhead its U.S. expansion plans
Google to source 100% of its power from renewables in 2017
The tech giant says that next year all of its offices as well as its data centers will be powered by renewables. The company has signed 20 PPAs to date for a total of 2.6 GW.
OCI to sell Alamo 6 solar project for $385 million
The Texan/Korean developer has not said who it will sell the 110 MW-AC plant to.
All-time high in US storage investment in Q3, finds GTM report
Disclosed venture funding and project finance of energy storage projects in the U.S. in the third quarter reached $660 million, although actual deployments contracted slightly, says GTM Research.
Trump DOE transition team issues vague threat to energy subsidies
A leaked memo on the Trump Administration’s Energy Plan focuses more on expanding fossil fuel infrastructure and stopping federal regulation of carbon, but also says that all energy subsidies should eventually be eliminated.
Utah utility’s rate proposal sparks passionate public backlash
Rocky Mountain Power’s new rate structure, which goes before the public service commission today, would charge new solar customers fees to cover a mythical cost-shift — inviting public scrutiny of what it sees as the utility’s attack on solar energy
Enphase offloads residential O&M arm to SunSystem Technology
The U.S. microinverter specialist confirms that SunSystem Technology will act as the company’s primary residential O&M service provider after selling its O&M field service division Next Phase Solar.
NRDC report says U.S. clean-energy transition unstoppable
Renewable-energy sources now cost less than fossil-fuel ones in many places, and consumers are voting with their wallets
Australian researchers produce 12% efficient, 16cm2 perovskite PV cell
University of New South Wales researchers have achieved the highest efficiency for a perovskite PV cell of its size to date.
New Jersey extends it Solar For All program
The approval allows the Public Service Electric and Gas Co. (PSE&G) to invest another $80 million over the next three years to transform the state’s landfills and brownfields into solar farms
