City of Fresno expected to save $122 million in bills with solar and storage projects
The city is expected to save on electricity costs over the next 20 years from its new 27 MW portfolio of behind-the-meter solar projects.
Penske Truck Leasing begins rooftop solar rollout at several facilities
The truck rental company has installed rooftop solar at a new facility in Illinois and has plans to develop more solar on rooftops across the U.S.
Construction starts on 27 MW behind-the-meter solar for California water treatment plants
The City of Fresno and ForeFront Power began construction on the three projects, which will also include 2.3 MW of energy storage.
Distributed solar project updates in California, Maryland and New York
Project updates for rooftop, commercial, industrial, and community scales for projects built by ForeFront Power, Genie Solar Energy, and Summit Ridge Energy.
Solar industry seeing results from diversity program
One year after launching its Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Justice (DEIJ) Certification Program, the Solar Energy Industries Association reports on the achievements of the 45 companies enrolled so far, and highlights new and upcoming modules.
Forefront Power, Hannon Armstrong partner on 131 MW distributed solar portfolio
The portfolio includes a number of projects already in operation and brings Forefront’s total capacity of owned and developed solar projects to more than 800 MW of capacity across more than 1,000 projects.
Sunrise brief: AES inks financing for 400 MWh standalone battery energy storage
Also on the rise: seven teams advance in a DOE-sponsored Li-ion battery recycling competition, ForeFront Power commissions a school-focused solar project, and U Washington researchers say emission goals need to be 80% more ambitious to have a chance of meeting Paris climate goals.
New York is a 2 GW solar state
With the opening of the Mechanicville Community Solar Project, New York has become the 9th state to install 2 GW of solar. There is, however, no time to celebrate as the state has 5 years to add another 4 GW.
No climate debate at the DNC, NREL/First Solar improve thin-film cells: pvMB 8/23/19
Happy Friday one and all and welcome to today’s pvMB. Today we’ve got the Detroit Zoo going renewable, LONGi achieves AA bankability and community solar coming to Maryland. Let’s ride!
pvMB 1/25/19: Digital Reality+SunEnergy1+Facebook+80MW, Ikea hits 56 MW and more…
Happy Friday. In today’s pv magazine USA morning brief Forefront Power and Arcadia Energy are moving through 75 MW of community solar in New York, Florida Governor Desantis is lacking renewables, and solar is still exponential.
