Hot for Hardware – SimpliPhi, Tesla, NEC, Final Mile Solar, and CRYObattery
SimpliPhi offering up sales to deal with California grid shutdowns, Final Mile Solar delivering your hardware with style, Tesla got a solar roof approval, NEC has a cool energy storage warranty, and CRYObattery is available in a 200 MW / 1.2 GWh package at $140/MWh.
Is the cost of cutting carbon too steep?
Wood Mackenzie has released a report entitled “Deep decarbonization requires deep pockets” estimating that it would cost $4.5 trillion to fully decarbonize the U.S. power grid by 2030, but is the avoided cost greater than the upfront?
Battery scientists make a cracking observation
Scientists at the Georgia Institute of Technology in the U.S. used x-ray imaging to observe cracks forming in a solid state lithium battery, a discovery they say changes the understanding of performance of solid state batteries and which could lead to more durable systems.
Bridging the gap: Mariah Lynne of Good Steward on farming and solar
In this interview Good Steward CEO Mariah Lynne talks about what solar projects can mean for farmers and rural communities as a whole, and how to get everyone on the same page when projects are being developed.
Solar power’s great land use responsibility
Solar developer Silicon Ranch has launched its Regenerative Energy program, which takes a broader view of climate and land use issues in utility scale solar construction.
What’s TVA going to build? Wouldn’t you like to know.
The federally-owned power company has responded to critiques of its planning by presenting a vague long-term vision, but in its central plan expects to build only 2-3 GW of new solar over the next decade.
Coal closures open door for solar in Texas, New Mexico
Hundreds of megawatts of coal-fired generation will soon be going off-line for good. And what’s even better is that these plants are set to be replaced with somewhere in the ballpark of 800 MW of solar.
SEIA’s solar permit software, corporate turnover typhoon: pvMB 7/2/19
Hello everybody and welcome to today’s edition of the pvMB. This morning we’ll be looking at the change of CEOs at El Paso Electric, Enel Green Power selling off 65 MW of the Roadrunner project, the Cape Anne solar campaign and more!
Product recall: SMA calls in MLPE over rapid shutdown problem
The inverter maker conducted tests and found the branded SMA TS4-R-F-42 could not always supply the rapid shutdown function called for by a new U.S. safety standard when applied in commercial and industrial systems featuring its inverter tech.
Florida’s stunted customer owned solar grows 76% in 2018
The State of Florida deployed 113 MWac of net metered, customer owned solar power across 13,705 installations last year – 68% more installations and 76% more watts than the prior year.
