The extended value and growing importance of community solar
Community solar is a viable path to bill savings for those who aren’t able to install rooftop solar, reports Sarah Moon, senior director of community solar origination at DSD Renewables.
RVs take shade under PV carport
At a campground in southern California, 3,500 solar panels were mounted on canopies at a recreational vehicle storage area. Analysis by Yale University suggests that carports in the state could meet about one-third of the state’s electricity demand.
In a saturated market, energy storage emerges as a silver bullet
Energy storage emerges as a solution to increase the utilization of intermittent renewable resources and increases in importance as wind and solar generation saturates markets.
Growatt opens automated factory in Vietnam to produce batteries, inverters
Growatt has an expansion plan to achieve an annual production capacity of 500,000 units of inverters and 100,000 units of batteries to serve the growing U.S. market as well as other markets throughout the world.
Renewable energy deployment down 16% in 2022
Falling well short of expectations, renewable energy deployment slowed 16% year-over-year, according to an American Clean Power report.
Over 25 GW of solar is actively being constructed in the U.S.
The capacity joins the existing 107 GW of solar on the U.S. grid, signaling that the energy transition is well underway.
50 states of solar incentives: North Dakota
Solar hasn’t yet taken hold in North Dakota, a state that relies more on wind power when it comes to renewable energy adoption.
McDonald’s signs on for 180 MW of Louisiana solar
The restaurant giant signed a solar power purchase agreement equivalent to the energy demand of over 30,000 U.S. homes.
Three global trends for solar in 2023
Component cost declines, local manufacturing and distributed energy are trending in the renewable energy sector this year.
California utilities commission advised to block solar and storage microgrid application
In a move that was “shocking” to solar and storage provider Sunnova, the California Public Utilities Commission made yet another decision in favor of the investor-owned electric utility giants.
