8minute Solar Energy has executed a power purchase agreement with Monterey Bay Community Power Authority (MBCP) and Silicon Valley Clean Energy (SVCE) on the Aratina Solar Center, a 250-MWdc/200-MWac, 150-MWh solar plus storage project. “Community Choice Energy providers across California are taking proactive and ambitious...
Read MoreVeteran roofer and solar installer PetersenDean filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in June with the intention of reorganizing its business and debt. The California-based company released a statement Tuesday citing the effects of the coronavirus pandemic as the motivation for the claim. The company’s leads had...
Read MoreThe Ukrainian government’s conference rooms have been stuffier that usual lately, as policymakers and renewable energy industry representatives attempted to thrash out a compromise to reduce the financial burden left on the administration by a feed-in tariff incentive regime which drove almost 2 GW of...
Read MoreSolarPower Europe has predicted the volume of new PV capacity added this year will be 4% less than last year’s figure because of the Covid-19 crisis. At the end of 2019, the world had topped 630 GW of solar. For 2020, around 112 GW of...
Read MoreThe US solar industry’s largest trade show goes hybrid, with a virtual and outdoor event at the Las Vegas Convention Center Oct. 21-22 — and organizers say, no swag, please.From pv magazine USA. North America Smart Energy Week — aka Solar Power International (SPI) — is...
Read MoreSMA America has launched a new Online Service Center to elevate service quality and expedite response. Installers can now access resources that previously required calling a service technician. In the new online service center, customers can track the progress of a service case, inverter exchange...
Read MoreFacing soaring unemployment, ominous predictions for the 2020 wildfire season and the persistent threat of climate change, this week a bipartisan group of California State Legislators led by Assemblymember Jesse Gabriel (D-Encino) sent a joint letter to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-San Francisco) and House...
Read MorePanasonic today announced the expansion of its 25-year warranty on solar panels to include labor on all components of the residential solar system, including the monitoring and interconnection hardware and racking system. This builds on the company’s recent warranty expansion to cover labor on Enphase microinverters included...
Read MoreFears that the coronavirus outbreak would sideswipe the U.S. clean energy market appear overblown so far, and the proof is in the projects. 2020 is the most socially and economically disruptive year for Americans in a generation. It’s also likely to be the biggest year in history...
Read MoreFor BP, some drilling projects just don't make sense anymore. The European oil major said this week that it will write down as much as $17.5 billion from its oil and gas portfolio while baking in a new carbon price forecast of $100 per ton by 2030 — up...
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