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Ygrene, City of St. Louis Reach Major Milestone for National Energy Efficiency and Renewable Program

October 20, 2018 Anand Gupta

Launched in 2013, Set the PACE St. Louis has on a per capita basis provided more commercial PACE funding than any other individual PACE jurisdiction in the United States ST. LOUIS: The City of St. Louis and Ygrene, a national leader in energy efficiency and renewable financing, celebrated on October 5th five years since the […]

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PNM to Add 100MW of Solar in New Mexico to Serve Facebook Data Center

October 20, 2018 Anand Gupta

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M.: PNM Resources’ (NYSE: PNM) New Mexico utility, PNM, received approval on Wednesday from the New Mexico Public Regulation Commission (NMPRC) to purchase 100 megawatts of solar generation from NM Renewable Development, LLC (NMRD) in order to continue serving the Facebook data center in New Mexico with 100 percent renewable energy. This addition supports the goal to achieve a more […]

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What a New Order Means for Community Solar and Storage in Massachusetts

October 18, 2018 Anand Gupta

A new bill credit mechanism gives Massachusetts community solar developers valuable certainty about how to structure savings in near-term contracts. Many critical issues have been resolved on the way to revising Massachusetts’ community solar program, including solar bill credits, metering and incentive payouts. The program, called the Solar Massachusetts Renewable Target, or SMART, was recently […]

FILE PHOTO: A fence closes off the closed coal-fired Somerset power plant in Somerset

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US greenhouse emissions fell in 2017 as coal plants shut

October 18, 2018 Anand Gupta

WASHINGTON: Greenhouse gases emissions from the largest US industrial plants fell 2.7 percent in 2017, the Trump administration said, as coal plants shut and as that industry competes with cheap natural gas and solar and wind power that emit less pollution. The drop was steeper than in 2016 when emissions fell 2 percent, the Environmental […]

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Iron Mountain Drives Renewable Energy Goals for Global Electricity Use in 2018 through Partnerships with NextEra Energy Resources

October 18, 2018 Anand Gupta

New virtual power purchase agreement supports commitment to aggressive carbon reduction goals in line with the Paris Climate Accord BOSTON: Iron Mountain Incorporated™ (NYSE: IRM), the global leader in storage and information management services, today announced the signing of a 15-year power purchase agreement (PPA) with an affiliate of NextEra Energy Resources, LLC, for 145 […]

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Microsoft Transfers Risk of Power Prices That Vary With the Wind

October 17, 2018 Anand Gupta

Microsoft Corp. has helped develop a way to protect corporate buyers of clean power from electricity prices that go up and down with the weather. The company is using a risk-management tool called a volume-firming agreement for almost 500 megawatts of wind projects, according to a blog post Tuesday. The contracts with the insurance giant […]

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Pason Power Enables Solar and Energy Storage Project Developers to Deploy with Confidence

October 17, 2018 Anand Gupta

End-to-End Data Intelligence Platform Makes Battery Storage Project Sizing and Performance Predictable HOUSTON: A new tool enabling the solar and energy storage industry to deploy with confidence was released by Pason Power today. The Storage Architect™ modeling software for energy storage project development puts economics first by forecasting a project’s economic value with the same optimization algorithm that runs […]

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Centrica Business Solutions Helps Customers Optimize Day-to-Day Performance with 100% Renewable Energy Solutions

October 17, 2018 Anand Gupta

Powering Performance: The Buyers Guide to Solar Now Available ISELIN, N.J.: Centrica Business Solutions released a comprehensive Buyers Guide to Solar to help large energy users better understand the ways they can improve their organization’s energy efficiency and operational performance. Produced by Centrica Business Solutions, this 18-page guide provides an end-to-end overview of solar and […]

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NV Energy Seeks Additional Low-Cost Renewable Energy

October 17, 2018 Anand Gupta

Company Requests Bids for Major Addition to Renewable Energy Portfolio LAS VEGAS: On the heels of its May 2018 announcement that it had secured the largest clean energy investment in Nevada’s history, NV Energy today issued a request for proposals (RFP) that could add an additional 350-megawatts or more of new, renewable energy projects. The […]

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Inside the ‘Chaos’ Enveloping Illinois’ Distributed Solar Market

October 16, 2018 Anand Gupta

At work on a fix, the state faces threats of “not only market confusion, but potentially market failure.” Looking back on the evolution of state solar markets, Will Kenworthy — now Vote Solar’s Midwest regulatory director — remembers companies camping out overnight to turn in applications for incentives in New Jersey. He recalls Xcel Energy […]