North America
Consumer Protection: California Adds New Guide to Solar contracts
California is backpedaling to regulate the way solar is sold to potential buyers. Starting October 1, contractors are required to include the Solar Protection Guide to their contracts.
Oct 2, 2019 // Solar, California, USA, North America, Nate Otto, Hot Purple Energy, Kathy Owens
Online marketplace Sun Exchange powers solar projects in South Africa
Sun Exchange powers solar projects at schools such as Sacred Heart College in Johannesburg
Oct 2, 2019 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, USA, Europe, Africa, North America, Sun Exchange, Abraham Cambridge
Solar supporting peacekeeping in DR Congo
A report by the Powering Peace organization states UN missions in the Democratic Republic of Congo could reduce expense and pollution by using off-grid solar to power operations instead of diesel generators. Adding a 200 kW solar system with 200 kW/450 kWh of energy storage would reduce diesel consumption 80% for 10-year savings of almost $2.6 million, states the group.
Oct 1, 2019 // Storage, Grids, USA, storage, off-grid solar, North America, bboxx, DR Congo, MONUSCO, Kivu Green Energy, Orange, Altech, SNEL
Keystone XL developer becomes PPA offtaker for Alberta PV project
Perimeter Solar has sold 74.25MW of power from its proposed 130MW solar farm in Alberta, Canada to energy company TC Energy, in a deal billed as Canada’s “largest” private power purchase agreement (PPA) to date.
Oct 1, 2019 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, Markets & Finance News, Grids, Canada, PPA, Donald Trump, North America, calgary, alberta, greengate, perimeter, tc energy, keystone xl
Vivint Solar refutes contract forgery allegations
Vivint Solar has refuted claims by short-seller Marcus Aurelius Value of “malfeasance” around sale contracts, in a counteroffensive launched after days of gradual stock share decline.
Oct 1, 2019 // Plants, Residential, Markets & Finance News, California, USA, Residential PV, vivint, North America, litigation, court dispute, short-sellers, baml, pv residential installer, Marcus Aurelius Value, Philip Shen
Tesla’s unionising pushback violated federal labour law, court finds
A federal administrative judge has ruled that Tesla violated US labour laws on 12 different occasions where it thwarted efforts by factory employees to form a union.
Oct 1, 2019 // Manufacturing News, California, USA, TESLA, Elon Musk, SolarCity, Walmart, North America, lawsuits
California firm contracts ‘astoundingly’ cheap solar-plus-storage pipeline
The US state of California has witnessed yet another claim of ultra-low solar prices, recorded in the context of a major contracting exercise by a community energy group.
Oct 1, 2019 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, Storage, Tariffs, California, USA, Nick Chaset, EBCE, sPower, pv power plants, solar-plus-storage, BESS, North America, 8minutenergy, terra-gen, 8minute Solar Energy
Hanwha Q Cells Dedicates Largest Solar Panel Factory In Western Hemisphere
Hanwha Q Cells officially opened its 300,000 square foot solar panel factory in Dalton, Georgia last week, claiming it is the largest such manufacturing facility in the western hemisphere.
Sep 30, 2019 // Manufacturing News, Tariffs, Policy, USA, Georgia, Jinko Solar, First Solar, Trump, Europe, North America, Hanwha Q Cells, Brian Kemp, Scott Moskowitz, LG
California Now Has More Than 1 Million Rooftop Solar Installations
California has hit a significant milestone this year: more than one million rooftop solar installations on homes, schools, businesses, and farms. With California leading the way, the U.S. reached two million installations this year.
Sep 30, 2019 // Manufacturing News, Residential, Storage, Rooftop PV, California, USA, North America, NeoVolta, Brent Willson, Tesla Powerwall
Solar farm, data center approved for Chesterfield ‘megasite’
The site of two controversial development proposals that never came to pass is now slated to be filled with solar panels and computing storage buildings.
Sep 30, 2019 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, Markets & Finance News, California, USA, Cypress Creek Renewables, North America, urban grid, Chesterfield, Mike Uzel, Brennen Keene
Solar Manufactured Homes Concept Wins National Award For Portland Firm
An idea to build solar panels into manufactured homes has given a Portland-based company a big win in a year-long national competition.
Sep 30, 2019 // BIPV, Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, Rooftop PV, California, USA, North America, Portland, Phase3 Photovoltaics, Ethan Good, Becca Jones-Albertus
Sherburne County may require solar farms to be pollinator-friendly
New solar farms in Sherburne County may soon have to do more than just produce energy from the sun.
Sep 30, 2019 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, USA, North America, Minnesota, Sherburne, Marc Schneider, Rob Davis
Lightsource BP to power historic Colorado steel mill with 240MW solar plant
Lightsource BP will build and operate a 240MW solar facility that will sell energy to Midwestern utility Xcel Energy to power operations at a historic Colorado steel mill for 20 years.
Sep 30, 2019 // Plants, USA, Colorado, Lightsource BP, North America, Xcel Energy, EVRAZ
Farmers increasingly putting solar panels on their land
Farmers who want to sell electricity to utilities generally lease land to power companies to build the panels.
Sep 27, 2019 // Solar, USA, China, Asia, North America, Kirk Maltais, American Farm Bureau Federation
Honda & Nike Secure New Renewable Energy Supplies
Honda has just inked two virtual power plant agreements that will cover more than 60% of its electricity usage in North America.
Sep 27, 2019 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, USA, Europe, Africa, North America, honda, Oklahoma, Nike, Eric Sprunk
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