How automation is changing the solar interconnection process in California
Want to speed up project development timelines and lower costs? Automate the process, pleads Tam Hunt, a renewable energy lawyer and policy expert.
Morning Brief: TVA solicits 200 MW of renewables, Sungrow supplies the Wright project
Also in the brief: 14 MW approved in Maine, 20 MW approved in Indiana, a molten aluminum thermal energy storage system and more.
Cheap renewables putting $639 billion of new coal investments at risk
The Carbon Tracker Initiative crunched some numbers and discovered that more than half a trillion dollars worth of coal investments are at serious risk due to the declining cost of renewables.
Tesla claims its New York factory built 4 MW of solar roof tiles last week, ‘enough for 1,000 homes’
Although every box of shingles we examined came from Changzhou, China, not the factory in New York.
Boralex bursts into the US market with 180 MW solar portfolio
The global renewable energy developer’s first foray into the American market will come via a four-project portfolio, developed in response to a NYSERDA renewable generation solicitation.
Morning Brief: Reporting from Shanghai on implications of the outbreak on the solar supply chain
Also in the brief: Enphase ships storage; homeless encampments using secondhand solar; big batteries.
BNEF lowers 2020 global PV outlook due to coronavirus concerns
Many solar factories in China are starting to resume production, suggesting that concerns about supplies of PV components could soon begin to ease. Nevertheless, the temporary standstill will have an impact on the global solar market, as the implementation of some projects will probably be postponed until next year.
Traditionally non-partisan FERC is politicized with 3-1 Republican majority
Shattering the tradition of “pairing” Democrats and Republicans on the influential Energy Commission.
Demand Power gets $71 million for battery storage, solar and energy services
Energy storage in the time of Corona.
Hydrogen is the first viable option for seasonal storage
Compressed hydrogen is “the first viable option” to help meet wintertime electricity demand in a high-renewables grid, says DNV GL, a global consulting firm.
