In this week’s Solar News Roundup, renewables account for all new generating capacity in April, and Massachusetts gets two new community solar + storage projects.
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Solar news: May 29th, 2020
In this week’s Solar News Roundup, we’re talking net-zero plans. We’re highlighting two companies working on ambitious net-zero carbon emissions roadmaps: Southern Company, who pledged net-zero carbon emissions by the year 2050, and Amazon, who bought another massive chunk of solar energy to power operations.
Continue readingSolar news: May 15th, 2020
In this week’s Solar News Roundup, renewables are projected to produce more than coal in the U.S. for the first time ever, and a summary of our new report on consumer and installer sentiment during COVID-19 times.
Continue readingSolar news: May 1st, 2020
In this week’s Solar News Roundup, we talk about two solar incentive programs that are getting a boost in the Northeast: Massachusetts’ SMART program and Rhode Island’s solar brownfields incentive program.
Continue readingWhere are solar installations still happening?
Given the current ongoing COVID-19 situation, you may be wondering both if it’s even possible to still go solar and, if so, where solar installations are still actively taking place. The short answer? Yes and yes! Here’s a deeper dive into what we know about where people are still actively installing solar today.
Continue readingSolar news: April 17th, 2020
In this week’s Solar News Roundup, Shell announces a net-zero emissions target for 2050, and Clean Power Alliance contracts a new 100-megawatt battery project in southern California.
Continue readingSolar news: April 3rd, 2020
In this week’s Solar News Roundup, we take a look at how a few solar companies are responding to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Continue readingWhat is distributed power? The parallels between distributed energy and cell phones
In 1994, only 10% of Americans had a cell phone. And yet, in 15 short years, more Americans had cell phones than landlines. While the rapid adoption of mobile phones can’t be attributed to a single factor, there is one major parallel between the transition from landlines to smart phones and what’s actively happening today in the electricity industry: the transition from a centralized system to a distributed (or decentralized) network.
Continue readingSolar news: March 20th, 2020
In this week’s Solar News Roundup, solar dominates New York’s latest renewable energy procurement, and Washington takes an important step to address the problem of solar panel recycling.
Continue readingSolar news: March 6th, 2020
In this week’s Solar News Roundup, we’re covering two topics in the broader energy industry with ties to solar: electricity generation trends in 2019 and new projections in New England for electric vehicle and electric heating adoption.
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