Georgia Power recently announced a new program, Community Solar, which allows residential customers to subscribe to receive a bill credit based on actual production at a solar facility.
Three megawatts (MW) of new Georgia Power solar facilities, including a two MW facility currently under constr... Read More »
The Maryland Public Service Commission has scheduled second comment hearings for two solar projects in the state in Cecil County and Queen Anne’s County, respectively.
Both meetings will be held on Nov. 1, 2017, and will be proceeded over by public utility law judges. Each had previous meetings... Read More »
The Illinois Commerce Commission (ICC) hosted Thursday a policy session in Chicago addressing the impacts of integrating renewable energy resources on the region’s transmission infrastructure and energy markets.
The session, held in light of the Future Energy Jobs Act (FEJA) and future state g... Read More »
AEP Ohio, an American Electric Power company, today issued on Wednesday a Request for Proposals (RFP) for up to 400 megawatts (MW) solar energy generation resources in Ohio.
Proposals will be evaluated based on the criteria outlined in the RFP. The company will give preference to sites that are ... Read More »
Rocky Mountain Power (RMP) recently requested approval from the Idaho Public Utilities Commission (PUC) to significantly lower the rates it charges to integrate wind and solar energy into its system.
Specifically, RMP’s proposal calls for lowering the integration rate from its current $3.06 per... Read More »
Data recently provided by GTM Research to Reuters showed that Mississippi and Alabama had the fastest-growing solar markets in the United States between the second quarters of 2016 and 2017.
Eight of the 10 fastest-growing U.S. solar markets were Western, Midwestern, or Southern states that vote... Read More »
University of Nevada, Las Vegas earned first place in the Innovation Contest and Northwestern University took the top spot in Communications Contest this week at the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Solar Decathlon 2017 in Denver, Colorado.
At the event, teams of college students from around the ... Read More »
The Montana Public Service Commission (PSC) recently granted a request from MTSUN and NorthWestern Energy to lengthen the contract available for a proposed 80-megawatt solar farm near Billings from 10 years to 15.
The Commission denied several requests by the company for increases to the rate co... Read More »
As the political winds in Washington seem to be blowing towards the increased use of coal and nuclear energy, the electric utility industry is doubling down on the power of the sun for a very simple reason.
“The cost of solar has gone way down,” noted Richard McMahon, vice president of Energ... Read More »
Efforts underway from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to scale back the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) would break repeated promises by President Donald Trump to protect the RFS, according to a recent public statement from the American Soybean Association (ASA).
ASA’s statement f... Read More »