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Bipartisan Senate bill allocates $100M to ease residential solar and storage permitting -
Utility Dive – September 10 -
Senators Martin Heinrich, D-New Mexico, and Susan Collins, R-Maine, introduced a bill this...more
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Los Angeles has lined up record-cheap solar power. But there’s a problem -
Los Angeles Times – August 27 -
Los Angeles has been sitting on a contract for record-cheap solar power for more than a month, but the...more
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Could offshore wind turbines help power Vandenberg? A French company wants to find out -
The Tribune – August 12 -
Prospects for floating wind projects off California have been stalled for several years, largely...more
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California farmers are planting solar panels as water supplies dry up -
Los Angeles Times – July 31 -
In the San Joaquin Valley alone, farmers may need to take more than half a million acres out of production to...more
8/5/2019
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NREL study shows mass potential for storage to provide peaking capacity -
Utility Dive – July 10 -
The booming U.S. battery storage market is showing no signs of slowing down, and a new report says its prospects...more
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NextEra loses bankruptcy court jurisdiction fight with PG&E over renewables contracts -
Utility Dive – June 11 -
A bankruptcy judge has ruled that the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) does not have...more
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California has too much solar power. That might be good for ratepayers -
Los Angeles Times – June 5 -
California set two renewable energy records last week: the most solar power ever flowing on the state’s main...more
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U.S. surpasses 2 million solar installations -
Solar Power World - May 9 -
The U.S. is now home to more than 2 million solar PV installations, according to Wood Mackenzie Power & Renewables and the Solar Energy...more
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sPower and MCE complete largest operational CCA solar project in California -
PV-Tech - April 29 -
sPower and MCE have commenced commercial operations at the 130-megawatt Antelope Expansion 2 PV project in...more
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Duke Energy completes acquisition of 150-MW California solar project -
PV-Tech - April 23 -
Duke Energy Renewables has acquired the 150-megawatt North Rosamond solar project in Kern County from Clearway Energy...more
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AMS breaks 2 gigawatt-hours in grid services -
Greentech Media - March 19 -
The competition for the title of "world’s largest virtual power plant (VPP)" has largely been focused on residential solar-battery...more
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Utility-scale solar projections now exceed pre-tariff forecasts -
Greentech Media - March 13 -
Projections for utility-scale solar growth from 2020 to 2022 now exceed forecasts drafted before the Trump...more
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California leads in new ranking of top performing solar projects -
GREENTECH MEDIA - Jun 1 A first of its kind data set from kWh Analytics ranking production at individual solar power plants around the country...more
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GOP senators want to exempt giant solar farm panels from tariffs -
BLOOMBERG - May 11 Republican senators from five states with big solar farms are asking the Trump administration to exempt the workhorse of...more
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SunPower buys U.S. rival SolarWorld to head off Trump tariffs -
REUTERS - Apr 18 SunPower Corp. on Wednesday said it would buy U.S. solar panel maker SolarWorld Americas, expanding its domestic manufacturing as...more
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U.S. corporate solar procurement surges in 2017 -
GREENTECH MEDIA - Apr 12 Corporate procurement of solar is on the rise for both distributed generation and offsite utility PV. As a testament to that trend,...more
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California could get more solar, geothermal power from Imperial Valley following lawsuit -
The Desert Sun - Mar 7
As Governor Jerry Brown looks to neighboring states for cheap sources of clean energy, a legal...more
3/16/2018
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U.S. tax bill to preserve key renewable energy credits, sources say -
Reuters - Dec 14 The final version of comprehensive tax legislation being negotiated by House and Senate lawmakers will preserve key...more
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Wells Fargo global operations now powered by 100 percent renewable energy -
PennEnergy - Nov 8 Wells Fargo & Company has announced that 100 percent of its global electricity consumption for 2017 will be met with...more
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San Bernardino County rejects a controversial solar power plant proposed for the Mojave Desert -
Los Angeles Times - Aug 24 -
The San Bernardino County Board of Supervisors has...more
8/30/2016
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Forecast sees largest growth for renewable energy sources -
The Hill - May 11 -
Federal energy analysts are forecasting that renewable energy will see the largest growth in...more