Tag: policy
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Colorado approves streamlined solar permitting process
For any state or region hoping to add more solar energy, a modern, streamlined permitting process can have a big impact. The Colorado Legislature has taken note and passed a bipartisan bill to establish the Streamlined Solar Permitting and Inspection Grant Program. This will provide nearly $1 million to help local governments with startup costs……
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PV Pro Cures | CHERP wants to build mini U.S. solar module factories and a circular economy
Solar module procurement has been precarious the last few years. The Section 201 tariffs of the Trump Administration. The Auxin petition to expand the bounds of the anti-dumping and countervailing duty (AD/CVD) tariffs. The allegations of forced labor in China’s Xinjiang province and the resulting Withhold Release Order (WRO) and Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act……
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Report: Net metering compensation moves to time-varying and avoided cost rates
The solar net metering headlines have been dominated by California’s NEM 3.0, but net metering compensation is being updated all over the country. The Q1 2023 edition of The 50 States of Solar finds that 41 states, plus the District of Columbia, took some type of distributed solar policy action during Q1 2023, with the……
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‘Very strong likelihood’ CRA legislation will pass House and Senate
Solar experts believe that an effort to undo the two-year moratorium on tariffs that President Joe Biden established in June 2022 is likely to pass both chambers of Congress. Invoking the Congressional Review Act (CRA), the U.S. House of Representatives Ways & Means Committee approved new legislation to repeal the moratorium by a vote of……
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Details on Sunnova’s $3 billion loan guarantee from Department of Energy
Sunnova Energy International received a conditional commitment from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Loan Programs Office (LPO) to provide up to a $3 billion partial loan guarantee for projects tied to a new solar loan channel named “Project Hestia” squarely focused on disadvantaged communities. The DOE loan guarantee would be issued pursuant to Title……