FirstEnergy Corp. announced this week that it would issue a Request for Proposal (RFP) to purchase 71,000 Solar Photovoltaic Alternative Energy Certificates (SPAECs) annually over a two-year period on behalf of three of its Pennsylvania utilities.
FirstEnergy will purchase the credits on behalf ... Read More »
Georgia Power recently announced a new renewable energy program for its commercial and industrial customers, Commercial and Industrial Renewable Energy Development Initiative (C&I REDI).
Customers that sign up for the program will receive hourly credits matching actual production and Solar Renew... Read More »
The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers’ (IEEE) Power and Energy Society (PES), in conjunction with the North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC) recently launched a task force aimed at examining the impact of large penetration of inverter-based resources like photovolta... Read More »
Several solar industry groups released a joint statement Monday responding to the New York Public Service Commission’s approval of utility implementation plans in the Value of Distributed Energy Resources (VDER) proceeding.
The plans establish the compensation for solar customers in each utili... Read More »
The Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works (EPW) held a hearing last week to discuss carbon capture and utilization technologies.
The hearing was officially titled “Expanding and Accelerating the Deployment and Use of Carbon Capture, Utilization, and Sequestration (CCUS).” Attending... Read More »
The solar industry has achieved the 2020 utility-scale solar cost target set by the SunShot Initiative due to rapid cost declines in solar photovoltaic hardware, according to recently-published research from Solar Power International and the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE).
“The SunShot Initia... Read More »
At the 2017 Clean Energy Conference and Awards Ceremony in New Jersey this week, the New Jersey Board of Public Utilities paid tribute to participants in the state’s Clean Energy Program.
Over the previous 15 years, New Jersey has invested more than $3.1 billion into energy saving projects, red... Read More »
Trade groups representing a wide range of energy sectors penned a joint letter to Congress on Thursday that largely expressed agreement with the findings of a recent U.S. Department of Energy report on electricity markets, which highlighted the need for a diverse energy mix in order to provide relia... Read More »
The U.S. solar industry installed 2387 megawatts (MW) of solar photovoltaics (PV) in the second quarter of 2017, making it the largest second quarter to date.
This is an 8 percent year-and-year increase and surpasses the total from quarter one of 2017, according to the latest U.S. Solar Market I... Read More »
The Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA) recently introduced its new website and a new online community platform that SEIA members can use to network with others in the industry and make business-to-business connections.
SEIA said in a press release that the new websites are “part of the... Read More »