Solar briefcase packs in 200 W for off-grid and mobile living
FlexSolar provides a foldable portable solar PV briefcase kit with charge controller and connection cables included.
For the first time in history, California’s demand was 100% matched by renewable energy generation
On Saturday afternoon, as the sun shined brightly, solar PV and other renewables generated 100% of the state’s needs for about fifteen minutes.
Elon Musk wins SolarCity lawsuit, avoids over $2 billion judgement
The business magnate avoided what would have been the largest judgement in history on an individual executive.
RFP Alert: Dominion Energy Virginia seeks 1.2 GW of solar and wind, 125 MW storage
The utility requests proposals for solar PV and onshore wind development as well as energy storage.
RFP Alert: PG&E seeks 176 MW of front-of-the-meter local solar
Eligible projects will range from 0.5 MW to 20 MW and will serve the growth of the utility’s solar opt-in program, which connects customers to renewable energy for a small premium.
Student activism leads Boston school to adopt solar
The Planet Protectors club at the Winsor School, an all-girls college prep day school, successfully launched a project that will cover one third of the school’s energy needs and is estimated to save the school over $1 million during the project’s life.
Minnesota’s renewable generation has risen 60% over the past decade, providing 28% of Minnesota’s generation in 2021
The 2022 Minnesota Energy Factsheet demonstrates that clean power industries lead the state’s energy transition.
Texas solar is booming, but batteries are not included
In the next three years, Texas is expected to deploy 50% more solar capacity than California, but projects are attaching batteries at about 28%, while in California, nearly 99% of solar projects have batteries included.
Canadian university to be equipped with a stealthy solar façade/microgrid
Building-integrated photovoltaics provider Mitrex said its system will provide St. Mary’s University student residence with a power-producing microgrid.
Speeding perovskite solar cell development with machine learning
MIT and Stanford researchers are employing artificial intelligence to test perovskites in pursuit of a commercially viable PV cell manufacturing process.
