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  • RFP alert: Southwest Virginia needs a residential solar partner in coal country

    The Solar Workgroup of Southwest Virginia issued a Request for Proposals (RFP) for partnership in the Southwest Virginia 2021 Residential Solar Program. The program will provide solar installation services for homeowners in the coalfield region. The workgroup is facilitating this program as part of its mission to utilize the developmentRead More — Solar Builder magazine

  • Missouri legislature, electric co-ops look to charge solar customers more

    The Missouri Solar Energy Industries Association (MOSEIA) sent word that the state’s upcoming HB539 and SB178 bills, which seek to modify the state’s net-metering program, could negatively impact homeowners and small businesses who generate their own solar power. While current law prohibits utilities from charging distributed generation (solar) customers differently thanRead More — Solar Builder magazine

  • Joule and Generate Capital trying ‘opt-out’ community solar in New York’s Finger Lakes

    The Villages of Brockport and Lima entered into a tri-party agreement with Joule and Generate Capital to provide community solar to residents on an opt out basis. Part of Joule’s Finger Lakes Community Choice program, the opt-out community solar program will be rolled out to 3,800+ households across the twoRead More — Solar Builder magazine

  • Eight Community Choice Aggregators teaming to form a joint power authority

    Northern and central coast Community Choice Aggregators are joining forces to Voltron a new Joint Powers Authority – California Community Power. The JPA allows the CCAs to combine their buying power to procure new, cost-effective clean energy and reliability resources to continue advancing local and state climate goals. The CCAsRead More — Solar Builder magazine

  • How Case Western is using AI to study, improve solar PV plant performance

    Case Western Reserve University computer scientists and energy technology experts are teaming up to leverage the diagnostic power of artificial intelligence (AI) to make solar-power plants more efficient. The work, funded by a three-year, $750,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), is part of a broad $130 million solar-technologiesRead More — Solar Builder magazine