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Iowa’s first solar and storage power plant goes live at the Maharishi University of Management

January 9, 2019 Anand Gupta

FAIRFIELD, Iowa: Maharishi University of Management’s new solar power plant, designed and installed by Ideal Energy, Inc., powered up for the first time Mid-December. Next Generation TechnologyThe cutting edge facility incorporates both single-axis tracking and vanadium-flow battery energy storage. Designed by Ideal Energy, Inc., it is the first system of its kind in the Midwest and […]

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Solar Industry Urges S.C. Legislature to Pass New Clean Energy Bill to Streamline Utility-Scale Deals, Make it Easier for Businesses and Households to Access Solar

January 9, 2019 Anand Gupta

COLUMBIA, S.C. and WASHINGTON: The solar industry is urging South Carolina’s Legislature to pass a broad new bill that would reform the state’s energy market, creating jobs, expanding solar deployment and lowering some of the highest home energy bills in the U.S. “We developed this bill because the energy market in South Carolina needs to be modernized,” said Abigail Ross Hopper, president and […]

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AES and KIUC Make History with World’s Largest Solar PV Peaker Plant

January 9, 2019 Anand Gupta

Solar + Storage System Inaugurated by AES and KIUC Today ARLINGTON, Va.: The AES Corporation (NYSE: AES) and Kaua’i Island Utility Cooperative (KIUC) today inaugurated the Lāwa’i Solar and Energy Storage Project, the largest operational solar and storage system in the world. The project, owned and operated by AES Distributed Energy, consists of a 28 […]

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Texas Power Pool gathering public entities for renewable electricity aggregation

January 8, 2019 Anand Gupta

WACO, Texas: Texas Energy Aggregation announced the formation of the Texas Power Pool, a new power purchasing option for Texas public entities to utilize aggregated renewable energy. Texas Power Pool services include competitive procurement of utility-scale renewables and on-site solar for state agencies, higher education, cities, independent school districts, water districts, and other public entities across Texas, including cooperative and […]

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How Flexible, Dispatchable Solar Works

January 8, 2019 Anand Gupta

On this week’s Interchange podcast: Can solar rival gas plants in providing grid services? Forget everything you think you know about solar. A growing body of research and real-world experience shows that solar can be a flexible, dispatchable resource. And it can potentially rival gas plants in providing grid regulation services — without the use […]

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FERC Staff Issues Environmental Assessment for Adelphia Gateway Project

January 7, 2019 Anand Gupta

Energy infrastructure project to enhance natural gas supply to the Greater Philadelphia region WALL, N.J.: Adelphia Gateway, LLC today announced the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) Staff issued its Environmental Assessment (EA) for the Adelphia Gateway Pipeline Project (Project) recommending that the FERC Certificate Order for the Project contain a finding of no significant environmental impact. […]

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Hawaiian Electric Industries Announces ‘Mind-Blowing’ Solar-Plus-Storage Contracts

January 5, 2019 Anand Gupta

“It’s hard to overstate the scale of this announcement.” This week Hawaiian Electric Industries sent seven new solar-plus-storage contracts to state regulators. Six come in at record-low prices for the state, under 10 cents per kilowatt-hour. The projects, which now await regulatory approval, would add 262 megawatts of solar and 1,048 megawatt-hours of storage distributed […]

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Clearway Energy Group and Hawaiian Electric Company Sign PPAs to Develop 75 MW of Low-Cost Renewable Energy

January 4, 2019 Anand Gupta

OAHU, Hawaii: Clearway Energy Group (“Clearway”) and Hawaiian Electric Company have signed power purchase agreements to construct two solar projects on Oahu: Mililani I Solar and Waiawa Solar Power. The power purchase agreements have been submitted to the Hawaii Public Utilities Commission (PUC) for review. The Mililani I Solar project, located in the Mililani Agricultural […]

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10 Predictions for Rooftop Solar and Storage in 2019

January 3, 2019 Anand Gupta

Solar veteran Barry Cinnamon lays out his predictions for 2019—but cautions that it’s unwise to be complacent about a rosy solar future. With the solar industry chaos of 2018 behind us, many of us are looking toward more predictable growth from 2019…at least until the Investment Tax Credit goes to zero for residential and 10% […]

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Looking Ahead: My 2019 Renewable Energy Industry Outlook

January 3, 2019 Anand Gupta

In 2018, the core fundamentals that drove growth in the renewable energy sector included the declining costs of wind and solar generation, advances in battery storage technology and grid operators’ growing expertise and expanding tool set for integrating intermittent renewable power into the grid. And, perhaps most significant, there was robust demand for renewables from […]