NREL: Solar + storage costs twice as much as solar (with chart)
The National Lab’s latest report uses its renowned cost modeling to find that even a PV system with small batteries costs nearly twice as much as a standalone PV system.
Perry’s testimony undercut by reported budget outline
Energy Secretary Nominee Rick Perry tried to soften his Climate Change and renewable energy stances during his confirmation hearing. However, a leaked budget outline from the Trump transition team belied that conciliatory tone.
Enphase receives much-needed influx of cash
The struggling microinverter manufacturer, which has posted quarterly losses in every quarter since Q3 2015, received a $10 million bailout from two institutional investors.
D.E. Shaw begins construction on a 52 MW solar project in Mississippi
D.E. Shaw expects to complete the plant in Sumrall by the second quarter of 2017.
Georgia reaches accord on renewable cost-benefit framework
Georgia Power and the Georgia Public Service Commission issued a joint recommendation on how to evaluate solar’s value to the state’s grid, with a view of using the framework in the Renewable Energy Development Initiative
NREL creates solar PV competitive test site
The test arrays will initially feature modules from three manufacturers, and NREL will publish the resulting performance and degradation rates online.
EnergySage wisely enters community solar
The solar market’s leading online marketplace moves beyond residential solar to benefit from a market expected to encompass have of distributed PV installations by 2020
NREL: 30% wind and solar on U.S. grids “no big deal” (with graphics)
National Renewable Energy Lab says ample resource availability, falling prices, and results from both research and actual experience in Europe are showing that there is no reason why we can’t reach much higher levels of renewable energy deployment.
Berkley Labs will lead DOE effort to find breakthrough materials for solar panels
Under the direction of Anubhav Jain of Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, five DOE labs will work to accelerate the development and development of innovative materials for PV modules.
Perovskite breakthrough may fast-track new solar PV technology
Just over a year after Australian cleantech company Dyesol claimed to have achieved efficiency levels of 10 per cent in its perovskite solar cells, US researchers claim to have topped that, with a breakthrough that could also work to fast-track commercialisation of the technology.
