On March 21, 2021, Pennsylvania Governor Tom Wolf announced the largest government commitment to purchase solar energy in the United States. The proposal, called Pennsylvania PULSE, would produce enough electricity from solar...more
On April 27, 2020, three days before the closure of the current solar renewable energy certificate (SREC) program, the New Jersey Board of Public Utilities (the Board) issued an order extending the deadline for SREC...more
On March 27, 2020, the New Jersey Board of Public Utilities (BPU) issued a Closure Order providing direction to participants in the Solar Renewable Energy Certificate (SREC) program related to the upcoming closure of the SREC...more
On April 8, 2019, the Maryland General Assembly passed Senate Bill 516 (SB 516), which has been entitled the Clean Energy Jobs Act. This legislation now moves on to Governor Hogan’s desk for review. The Governor may support...more
New Jersey has injected new life into its renewable energy programs with the passage of a bill that dramatically raises New Jersey’s renewable portfolio standards (RPS), revamps its solar renewable energy certificate (SREC)...more
Stakeholders have been following the development of “SMART” as a successor to the SREC program in Massachusetts for more than a year. (See our previous posts on the development process here, here, and here.) As it stands,...more
On September 23, DOER presented a straw proposal for the next phase of Massachusetts solar incentives. DOER’s ambitious proposal for a tariff-based program reflects a thoughtful development process and a laudable goal of...more
The Massachusetts DOER has released its revised regulations amending the State’s RPS to implement the next phase of support for solar in the Commonwealth....more
The Massachusetts Department of Energy Resources (MA DOER) has released draft regulations for its SREC II solar program. The regulations are the latest step toward implementing the Commonwealth’s goal to install a total of...more
At the most recent of what seems to have become near-monthly public meetings convened by the Massachusetts Department of Energy Resources (DOER) at the State House concerning all things SREC-related, DOER informed market...more
At its April 29, 2013 public agenda meeting in Trenton, the Board of Public Utilities (BPU) approved only 3 out of 57 new grid-supply solar farmland projects pending approval for solar renewable energy certificates (SRECs)....more