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PV Plant Owned by First Solar Is Being Paid to Help Balance Chile’s Electric Grid

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Back in 2016, First Solar proved in a California pilot project that utility-scale solar farms can provide critical transmission grid services. based solar module maker has taken the next big step in turning this capability into a real-world grid resource: convincing a grid operator to pay for it.

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Should California Link Electricity Bills to Customer Incomes?

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California already has some of the highest electricity rates in the country. Those costs could rise even faster over the next decade, as utilities harden their grids against wildfires, grow their share of net-metered rooftop solar, and add other costs being passed through to utility customers.

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Solar Dominates Maine’s Largest Renewables Procurement on Record

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Maine utility regulators have announced the results of the state’s largest renewables procurement to date, with solar developers coming away with the majority of winning bids. Solar will account for about 482 megawatts of the 546 megawatts of projects approved Tuesday by the Maine Public Utilities Commission.

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5 Major Trends Driving the $80B US Distributed Energy Resources Market Through 2025

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market for distributed energy resources will look very different in five years than it does today. And electric vehicles will give utilities and regulators the opportunity to promote pricing regimes to encourage charging when electricity is abundant — or suffer potentially grid-destabilizing consequences.

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Michigan Utility DTE Ordered to Seek Out More Renewables

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Michigan's two big investor-owned utilities, Consumers Energy and DTE Energy, have both committed to meeting state-mandated clean energy targets and retiring coal plants by 2040. The order gives the Detroit-area utility until March 21 to resubmit its IRP, and until April 1 to submit an amended renewable energy plan.

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Illinois Opens Narrow Window for Critical Solar, Nuclear Relief Bills to Pass

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Two long-delayed energy bills in Illinois that could make or break the state’s nuclear and solar industries have been left in limbo by the coronavirus pandemic. Pritzker asked lawmakers to pass clean-energy legislation this year, but that was before COVID-19 led the General Assembly to stop holding formal sessions.

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5 States Blazing the Trail for Integrating Distributed Energy Resources

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Distributed energy resources (DERs) is an expansive term, including everything from backup generators to microgrids. In some states with 100 percent clean energy mandates, like California and Hawaii, the focus is on solar — lots and lots of it — and the tools needed to integrate this massive new grid edge resource.