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Renewable energy tracking platform creates new pollinator-friendly solar credit designation

Renewable energy tracking platform creates new pollinator-friendly solar credit designation

The M-RETS platform, a renewable environmental attribute tracking system used by Fortune 25 companies, utilities and regulators, annonuced it will begin tracking…

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New law ensures stable bill credits for Colorado community solar customers

New law ensures stable bill credits for Colorado community solar customers

Pivot Energy’s Mesa 2 Community Solar Garden in Colorado. Governor Jared Polis signed HB 23-1337, sponsored by Representative Lukens (D-District 26), Representative…

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Massachusetts water supplier adds second solar + storage project

Massachusetts water supplier adds second solar + storage project

The Acton Water District in Acton, Massachusetts, will soon add an additional 1.5-MW solar and 2-MWh battery storage project to its cost-saving…

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SunPower and OhmConnect join forces on California VPP efforts

SunPower and OhmConnect join forces on California VPP efforts

SunPower and OhmConnect today launched a new virtual power plant (VPP) offering for SunPower customers across California. Now, homeowners in select locations…

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Castillo Engineering building 15-MW solar project for renewable diesel plant

Castillo Engineering building 15-MW solar project for renewable diesel plant

Castillo Engineering partnered with BioStar Renewables, to provide electrical design and engineering for a 15-MW solar project in Kansas. This behind-the-meter project…

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Oregon’s largest solar project now online in Gilliam County

Oregon’s largest solar project now online in Gilliam County

Avangrid, a member of the Iberdrola Group, has achieved commercial operation at its 162-MWAC (205 MWDC) Pachwáywit Fields solar farm (also known…

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Standard Solar Buys EDF Renewables Solar+Storage Project in Massachusetts

Peter Bay Standard Solar has acquired the Knox solar+storage project from developer EDF Renewables North America: a 1.5 MW solar / 2…

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ConnectGen’s 270-MW New York solar project receives final permit approval

ConnectGen’s 270-MW New York solar project receives final permit approval

ConnectGen announced that its proposed South Ripley Solar Project has received a final siting permit from the New York State Office of…

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New Xcel Energy program will lease onsite microgrids to C&I customers

New Xcel Energy program will lease onsite microgrids to C&I customers

NREL Xcel Energy has received approval from the Minnesota Public Utilities Commission to offer the state’s first program that supports microgrids and…

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Contractor’s Corner: Black & Veatch This century-old company evolved into renewable energy construction and isn’t looking back.

Contractor’s Corner: Black & Veatch This century-old company evolved into renewable energy construction and isn’t looking back.

Black & Veatch has a long history of construction and is known for its willingness to adapt to technology advances. The business,…

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Google signs deal to support 500-MW low-income solar portfolio

Google signs deal to support 500-MW low-income solar portfolio

A North Carolina solar project in which Google is the sole off-taker. The system was installed and developed by Cypress Creek Renewables….

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Ameresco Completes Solar Installation for Missoula, Montana

Ameresco Inc. and the City of Missoula, Mont., have completed a 545 kW behind-the-meter, non-export solar photovoltaic array at the city’s wastewater…

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Kentucky’s Largest Privately Funded On-Site Solar Project Comes Online

Today, Stanley Black & Decker, along with Castillo Engineering and RPG Energy Group, introduced the biggest privately owned on-site solar project in…

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Googles Leans on EDP Renewables to Support Solar-Focused Environmental Justice Program

Richard Dovere’s Name Google and EDPR North America Distributed Generation LLC (EDPR NA DG) have entered into an arrangement that will aid…

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Summit Ridge Energy completes 6 MW of new Illinois community solar

Summit Ridge Energy completes 6 MW of new Illinois community solar

Another Summit Ridge community solar project. ComEd and Summit Ridge Energy announced the completion of three community solar projects in Streator, Illinois,…

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Siemens, Lightsource bp Finalize Major Solar Inverter Supply Agreement

Lightsource bp’s Penn State Solar Initiative. Lightsource bp has finalized a deal with Siemens for the distribution of solar inverters for an…

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Statement on Proposal to Repeal the Inflation Reduction Act in Debt Limit Negotiations

Thursday, Apr 20 2023 Share Press Release WASHINGTON, D.C. — Following is a statement from Abigail Ross Hopper, president and CEO of…

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Conservation coalition confirms wind and solar transition is best route for the environment But the group says the industry must develop the right types of renewables in the right places.

Conservation coalition confirms wind and solar transition is best route for the environment But the group says the industry must develop the right types of renewables in the right places.

The rapid transition to renewable energy offers opportunities to reset the broken relationship between energy production and nature, according to a new…

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Denowatts receives accreditation for fourth gen digital twin benchmarking technology

Denowatts receives accreditation for fourth gen digital twin benchmarking technology

By | April 20, 2023 DNV has completed an independent technical review of Denowatts‘ Deno Digital Twin Benchmarking (DTB) technology, and the…

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DOE announces funding to support solar PV recycling innovations The $82 million will also support development of domestic CdTe and perovskite solar manufacturing.

DOE announces funding to support solar PV recycling innovations The $82 million will also support development of domestic CdTe and perovskite solar manufacturing.

Solarcycle CTO Pablo Dias and COO Rob Vinje show laminate after it’s been cleanly separated from the glass to investors and partners. …

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DOE commits to awarding Sunnova $3 billion for new VPP loan program

DOE commits to awarding Sunnova $3 billion for new VPP loan program

Sunnova just received a huge loan commitment from the Dept. of Energy to start a solar loan channel for disadvantaged individuals and…

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New York State correctional facilities lock in solar savings

New York State correctional facilities lock in solar savings

Solar at the Mid-State Correctional Facility. NYPA Governor Kathy Hochul during Earth Week announced the deployment of more than 30 MW of…

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SRE, Black Bear Kick Off Construction of Four Maryland Projects

Michelle Deutsch Summit Ridge Energy and Black Bear Energy have disclosed that they have started to build four solar energy installations in…

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HASI Funds Portfolio of CA Solar Assets for ForeFront Power

A project in California created by ForeFront Power. ForeFront Power, a developer and asset manager of commercial and industrial solar energy and…

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Developer Kicks Off Construction of 4 MW Community Solar Project

Genie Solar Energy has initiated the creation of a 4 MW solar energy array meant to provide electricity to a community in…

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Preserving American farmland through solar Solar and farming can successfully cohabitate.

Preserving American farmland through solar Solar and farming can successfully cohabitate.

Geoff Sparrow, the Vice President of Development for Green Lantern Solar, is speaking. There are many surprising connections between solar energy and…

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Hoymiles releases new, simplified connectors for microinverters

Hoymiles releases new, simplified connectors for microinverters

Hoymiles is set to launch a new HMS Cable System installation solution for multi-microinverter and single-microinverter PV systems. Drawing inspiration from modular…

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Greenskies Clean Focus to install 48-MW solar portfolio for home improvement giant

Greenskies Clean Focus to install 48-MW solar portfolio for home improvement giant

Lowe’s had chosen Greenskies Clean Focus to deliver a specific, organized method to execute its extensive, ground-based solar energy utilization across a…

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Numerous states shifted to avoided-cost or time-varying net-metering programs in Q1 2023

Numerous states shifted to avoided-cost or time-varying net-metering programs in Q1 2023

The N.C. Clean Energy Technology Center (NCCETC) released its Q1 2023 edition of “The 50 States of Solar.” The quarterly series provides…

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Congress begins process to repeal Biden’s 2-year pause on solar panel tariffs

Congress begins process to repeal Biden’s 2-year pause on solar panel tariffs

A proposal to nullify President Joe Biden’s 2022 two-year restriction on new solar tariffs has now been officially initiated under the Congressional…

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