Tag: News
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Navigant Research: Storage PPAs ‘already competitive with LCOE for combined cycle natural gas’
A new report from Navigant Research tracking the North American market for utility-scale storage plus renewables adoption and power purchase agreement (PPA) prices indicates a real shift is underway “In 2018, storage-plus made its first shift from the validation and first-mover adopters to diffuse adoption led by utilities,” says AlexRead More — Solar Builder magazine
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Origis Services will use AlsoEnergy as its solar, storage management platform
Origis Services LLC, which launched last week as an operations, maintenance and asset management arm of Origis Energy USA, selected AlsoEnergy as its management technology platform. Origis Services serves the rapidly expanding U.S. solar and energy storage market with full scope operations, maintenance and asset management services. The enterprise solutionRead More — Solar Builder magazine
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Freedom Forever expands its 25-year residential solar production guarantee to Illinois
Fast-growing residential solar energy installer Freedom Forever announced its latest market for expansion: Illinois. Founded in 2011, Freedom Forever currently serves customers in California, Arizona, Colorado and Nevada. Illinois was selected due to the state’s recent commitments to renewable energy — promising to hit an ambitious target of producing 25 percentRead More — Solar Builder magazine
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Sun Day analysis: Despite its recent peak, nuclear power has been declining for quite some time
The following commentary was sent our way by the Sun Day campaign. Tomorrow marks the 40th anniversary of the partial core meltdown of reactor number 2 at the Three Mile Island (TMI) nuclear plant near Harrisburg, Pennsylvania — the worst nuclear accident in U.S. history. [1] The event dramatically slowed whatRead More — Solar Builder magazine
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Countdown to California 2020 part II: Constructing a new solar pathway
We wrapped our arms around California’s new Building Energy Efficiency standards in Installment I of the Countdown to 2020. In this installment, we take a closer look at how these 80,000 annual additions to the solar pipeline (based on historical averages) will more broadly impact the California solar market. RegulationsRead More — Solar Builder magazine