Grid woes “will only increase the attach rates for storage” in country’s biggest rooftop solar market, Enphase CEO says. Enphase’s current growth is based around its core solar microinverter business. But in discussing the company’s Q3 earnings Tuesday, CEO Badri Kothandaraman focused on how Enphase’s soon-to-launch integrated energy storage system could aid Californians facing the […]
Can Solar and Batteries Outlast an Extended Power Outage?
It depends, experts say. Just expect to make a few sacrifices. Even by the standards of the generally well-informed clean-energy customers in California’s Bay Area, Todd Karin is a savvy one. Karin works as a postdoctoral researcher in the energy storage and distributed resources division at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. Last year, he chose to […]
Topaz Solar Farms Receives September Payment From PG&E
DES MOINES, Iowa : Consistent with the terms of its power purchase agreement with Pacific Gas and Electric Company, Topaz Solar Farms today received full contract payment for its August 2019 energy deliveries to PG&E. While monitoring PG&E’s financial situation, Topaz continues to perform its obligations under the parties’ power purchase agreement. About Topaz Solar […]
Ten years of PGE customers leading the nation in renewable power adoption
PORTLAND : Portland General Electric (NYSE: POR) and its customers are celebrating a decade of being the nation’s leaders in renewable energy during this year’s National Clean Energy Week. With more than 204,000 customers voluntarily enrolled in its Green FutureSM program, the U.S. Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory recently announced in its 2018 […]
Poland’s state-run PKN and PGE to work together on offshore wind
Poland still generates most of its electricity from coal, but wants to develop cleaner sources of energy, including offshore wind and solar power KRYNICA ZDROJ, Poland: Poland’s biggest oil refiner PKN Orlen and power producer PGE agreed on Thursday to work together on wind farm projects in the Baltic Sea, as a shift away from […]
Topaz Solar Farms Receives August Payment From PG&E
DES MOINES, Iowa: Consistent with the terms of its power purchase agreement with Pacific Gas and Electric Company, Topaz Solar Farms today received full contract payment for its July 2019 energy deliveries to PG&E. While monitoring PG&E’s financial situation, Topaz continues to perform its obligations under the parties’ power purchase agreement. About Topaz Solar Farms […]
California Proposes $100M in Energy Storage Incentives to Boost Wildfire Resiliency
An incentive carve-out for high-fire-risk areas could boost uptake among customers most likely to want solar-storage systems. California regulators want to direct $100 million in state energy storage incentives to a new class of disadvantaged customers: those living in parts of the state at the highest risk of deadly wildfires. The California Public Utilities Commission […]
PG&E Pledges to Keep All Power Purchase Agreements Despite Bankruptcy
A few developers accepted a 10 percent pay cut to gain certainty that their projects can move forward. Utility Pacific Gas & Electric said it would honor all existing power purchase agreements in a forthcoming plan to reorganize and emerge from bankruptcy. Whether or not legacy power contracts would survive has been a hot topic […]
PG&E Creditors Propose $30B Bankruptcy Plan and New Name for Stricken Utility
The steps needed to pull PG&E out of bankruptcy and backstop California’s utilities from future wildfire liabilities are beginning to come into focus. A set of hard numbers has emerged from Pacific Gas & Electric’s biggest creditors on the costs to pull it out of a bankruptcy caused by massive liabilities from past wildfires — […]
PG&E’s Bankruptcy Judge Leaves Door Open to Shedding Renewables Contracts
The bankrupt California utility’s plan to renegotiate expensive legacy PPAs with developers wins a legal victory—but an appeal looks likely. Bankrupt California utility Pacific Gas & Electric won a victory Friday in the legal battle over whether it can shed billions of dollars’ worth of renewable energy contracts. But the ultimate fate of those contracts […]