GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

Few grid policy battles have been fought as bitterly as those surrounding replacements for net-metering, which determines how much rooftop solar customers get paid for power they export to the grid. Utility Duke Energy tossed out the conventional playbook when proposing a net-metering successor for its South Carolina territory.

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Solar Power World

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

It’s a tale as old as grid-tied solar. Utilities see rooftop solar as a threat to their business model, so they spend money and lobbying time convincing legislators to cut net metering. Solar advocates fight back, and the laws are either halted or passed, to either the joy or detriment of the solar industry.

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GreenTechMedia

JULY 2, 2020

The group claiming status as a ratepayer advocacy group in its attempt to get federal regulators to override state net metering regimes has finally revealed the identity of one of its members. But that revelation appears to strengthen claims by its opponents that it is representing energy industry interests rather than those of ratepayers.

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Hydrogen Fuel News

AUGUST 26, 2024

The automaker will be adding the renewable power generated in Arkansas to three plants General Motors recently announced that it would be using solar energy from a farm in Arkansas to power three of its assembly plants with clean electricity.  Trends saw a major change in 2019, when Act 464 passed. 

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Renewable Energy World

JUNE 7, 2021

Sangha Systems, developers of an 82-MW cryptocurrency mining facility at a former steel mill in Hennepin, Illinois announced that it has signed a letter of intent (LOI) with AEP OnSite Partners to develop a 2 – 5-MW behind-the-meter solar power array to begin to migrate its electricity consumption towards clean energy.

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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 18, 2021

Hawaii's largest utility enlisted a new tool in its quest for a carbon-free electricity system: thousands of batteries installed in people's homes. Hawaiian Electric won regulator approval for a $25 million plan to harness solar and batteries at 6,000 homes across the islands of Hawaii, Maui and Oahu.

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ThinkGeoEnergy

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

The nation’s power sector is also heavily reliant on hydrocarbons, which is hardly surprising considering its affordability and supply. With an ambitious renewable energy target of 50% of its power supply by 2030, is there a prominent role for geothermal in Saudi Arabia’s energy mix?

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

California has more distributed energy resources than any other state, pressuring it to find ways to integrate them into the grid. That’s the big change enabled by a Rule 21 revision entitled “conditions that allow distributed energy resources to perform while avoiding upgrades.”

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Renewable Energy World

AUGUST 18, 2021

For this episode of the Local Energy Rules Podcast, a rebroadcast of episode 127 of the Building Local Power Podcast , host John Farrell speaks with guest Jean Su. Farrell and Su discuss how legal advocacy for energy democracy can overcome utility barriers to a renewable energy economy. The Salt River Project.

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GreenTechMedia

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

gigawatt natural gas power plant in the U.K. have been shelved by the developer Drax, highlighting the challenging economics of converting coal-fired power to a cleaner, but still fossil-fuel-fired, alternative. ’s climate change laws. ’s largest power plant. Plans for a new 3.6-gigawatt GW running on coal.

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GreenTechMedia

JUNE 17, 2020

rooftop solar installer, finalized two utility partnerships to turn home batteries into miniature power plants. Customers will get Sunrun’s solar-battery Brightbox service at a discount; O&R will compensate Sunrun for easing stress on the distribution wires by discharging the distributed batteries.

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GreenTechMedia

OCTOBER 23, 2020

billion Self-Generation Incentive Program budget to help low-income communities install about 100 megawatts of stalled behind-the-meter battery projects. The shift won’t tap the $613 million in SGIP funds earmarked for low-income and medically vulnerable customers at highest risk of fire-prevention power outages. California Sen.

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Grist

JUNE 13, 2024

But if you ask solar-power enthusiasts, a reservoir is also not realizing its full potential. They could simultaneously gather energy from the sun and shade the water, reducing evaporation — an especially welcome bonus where droughts are getting worse.

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

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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Renewable Energy World

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

After moving to Colorado, Joe Smyth found he was barred from participating in his generation and transmission cooperative — despite a Colorado law promoting co-op transparency. Farrell and Smyth discuss barriers to democratic participation in rural electric cooperative decision-making and how to promote transparency at all electric co-ops.

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Renewable Energy World

JULY 12, 2021

Earlier this month, the New Jersey legislature passed two pieces of legislation that will help increase solar development across the state. S2605 establishes the SREC-II program at the Board of Public Utilities (BPU), which includes incentives for at least 1500 MW of behind-the-meter solar facilities and 750 MW of community solar by 2026.

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Mosaic

MAY 15, 2024

Summer is no doubt the busiest season for the solar industry. High utility bills are a key motivator for homeowners, encouraging them to seek out cost-saving alternatives like solar panels. Maximize installer ticket size Bundling ancillary green-home upgrades with solar panels can help homeowners get the most out of their project.

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GreenTechMedia

MAY 27, 2020

New Jersey looked like the promised land for energy storage. installed solar capacity , ahead of nearby New York and Massachusetts. Phil Murphy campaigned in 2017 on a clean energy platform that pushed for a 100 percent clean grid by 2050. The state already has the seventh largest U.S.

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Hydrogen Fuel News

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

As the surge in renewable energy initiatives continues to redefine the landscape of energy production, solar farming has emerged as a beacon of sustainable income and environmental stewardship. This exploration seeks to illuminate the path toward a greener future and a prosperous venture in the realm of solar energy.

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Smart Energy International

AUGUST 10, 2022

The Wi-SUN Alliance has reported data privacy regulation as a top challenge for Internet of Things (IoT) adopters. Wi-SUN Alliance – new testing and certification partners IoT, AIoT and Industrial IoT, where is the future taking us? Have you read? Sign up to our newsletter and stay informed.

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

Can the lowly residential electrical panel become the hub of the solar-roofed, battery-backed, EV-equipped smart home? We’re re-architecting it from scratch, to be a much more capable device — not to be just a passive current protection device, but more of a multiplexer, an I/O for energy and data.

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GreenTechMedia

MARCH 12, 2021

It’s been an honor and a privilege to track Europe’s energy transition for the sector’s most discerning audience. Energy transition " wasn’t a term in common usage and certainly not one that sprang to mind when thinking of the Big Five oil companies. This will be my final piece for Greentech Media.

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Charged

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Over the last decade, Phoenix Contact has invested in new business fields as well, with a future vision of an all-electric society through the transformation of the mobility sector to electric mobility. In the beginning of 2022, Phoenix Contact established a new team within the U.S. E-MOBILITY CHARGING COMPONENTS.

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GreenTechMedia

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

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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Renewable Energy World

DECEMBER 6, 2021

This comes after the legislature in 2019 lifted project size limits for the state’s net metering program and implemented other policies that led to a crush of new project applications awaiting utility approval. The laws mostly paved the way for new solar generation development. Versant Power last recorded 382 megawatts, in 2019.

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Smart Energy International

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Jeff Hutchins, president and chief technology officer at EOS Linx, writes on the electric vehicle (EV) landscape and how its booming growth necessitates, now more than ever, a renewed focus on cybersecurity measures. Electric vehicles are the future. They’re not monitored by utility workers who are always on-premise.

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Renewable Energy World

MAY 25, 2021

by Lisa Prevost, Energy News Network. As the sale of Rhode Island’s largest electric distributor comes before state regulators for approval, a group of solar developers, policy specialists and energy consultants are calling on the governor and attorney general to seize what they see as a golden opportunity to force a faster grid transition.

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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 22, 2021

Tighter rules on the carbon footprint of new homes in England look set to trigger a fresh boom for residential solar. New homes will be expected to produce 31 percent less carbon dioxide than they do now, according to plans laid out this week , which will require better energy efficiency and being “heat pump ready.”

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Charged

APRIL 13, 2023

Sponsored by Pioneer Power Solutions. As the deployment of high-powered EV chargers continues to grow across the US, the issue of connecting them into a facility’s existing electrical system becomes a complex problem. How to Instantly Increase Your Facility’s Electrical Service with E-Bloc!

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Solar Power World

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

RE+ 2022 in Anaheim, California, was a frenzied flood of people and products and a glimpse of the clean-energy future expedited by the passage of the Inflation Reduction Act.

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GreenTechMedia

NOVEMBER 14, 2019

Long Island was once the “backbone” of New York’s solar industry, according to Steven Engelmann, business development director at New York-based EnterSolar. Total solar installations on Long Island dropped from 111.7 But solar developers on Long Island say the solution is not enough. megawatts in 2016 to 83.2

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GreenTechMedia

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

The solar-plus-storage market is evolving rapidly and will look completely different a decade down the road. Batteries will be incentivized or mandated for practically every new solar PV system across the U.S. Energy storage systems treated like heat pumps and air conditioners. What can we expect on the way to 2030?

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Renewable Energy World

APRIL 30, 2021

There are 2,600 megawatts of solar power capacity installed in the U.S. today that can be considered community solar, according to the U.S. Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL). Subscribe to Renewable Energy World’s free, weekly newsletter for more stories like this.

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Renewable Energy World

DECEMBER 2, 2021

By David Thill, Energy News Network. This comes after the legislature in 2019 lifted project size limits for the state’s net metering program and implemented other policies that led to a crush of new project applications awaiting utility approval. The laws mostly paved the way for new solar generation development.

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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 15, 2021

California regulators have approved a microgrid plan directing $200 million to help communities build networks that can supply power through the state’s extended wildfire-prevention blackouts, a task expected to take years to move from planning to completing its first projects. Slow progress on microgrid policy.

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Charged

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

Charged ’s home state of Florida is something of an EV hotspot—there are an estimated 58,000 electric vehicles in the Sunshine State, and according to the DOE, Florida has the third-largest number of charging stations in the US, behind only California and New York. Duke Energy won approval for $63 million, and Tampa Electric for $2 million.

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

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.

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