California slashes rooftop solar export compensation for renters, schools, farms
The California Public Utilities Commission made yet another ruling to harm the value of rooftop solar and create beneficial market opportunities for the state’s large investor-owned utilities.
Watch: Robots install solar project in Arizona desert
In its first commercial project, Terabase Energy successfully installed 17 MW of a 225 MW solar facility with its automated Terafab platform.
DSD Renewables secures $250 million strategic investment
The renewable energy developer received funds from Cox Enterprises to accelerate its project portfolio.
U.S.-sourced 500 MW solar / 1 GWh storage project in California achieves operations
Intersect Power achieved commercial operations for the project that includes 250 MW of 4-hour duration energy storage on site.
Sunrise brief: DOE seeks state-backed clean energy projects for up to 80% loans
Also on the rise: McCarthy begins construction on over 1 GW of solar projects in U.S. Southwest. Monoprice unveils new PowerCache batteries with up to 1,000 W of output. And more.
NREL presents new GaAs solar cell concept with 27% efficiency
The US Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) has identified a low-cost way to produce high-efficiency III-V solar cells with dynamic hydride vapor phase epitaxy (D-HVPE). The synthesis involved a gallium arsenide (GaAs) solar cell with a gallium indium arsenide phosphide emitter layer.
McCarthy begins construction on over 1 GW of solar projects in U.S. Southwest
Targeting Inflation Reduction Act compliance, the company hired 200 new registered apprentices to complete the projects.
Planned 77-home Florida community to include $4.2 million microgrid
Each new home will be outfitted with 8 kW of solar and every two homes will be connected with a 43 kWh battery.
Kentucky regulators approve plan for 900% increase in renewable energy
Louisville Gas and Electric and Kentucky Utilities will install 877 MW of solar, 500 MWh of energy storage, and will retire several fossil fuel plants.
California rooftop solar policy struggles serve as warning to nation
In the pv magazine Roundtables US 2023 live event, four expert panelists shared their views on the post-NEM 3.0 California rooftop solar market, and how energy storage will need to play an increasingly important role.
