By [email protected] Most of the biggest U.S. utilities have promised to eliminate their carbon emissions by midcentury. New research asserts most have undermined those goals by keeping coal plants running and building new natural gas plants meant to operate for decades to come. A new report from the Sierra Club finds that almost no U.S….
By [email protected] President-elect Joe Biden has promised to rejoin the Paris Agreement, an international climate accord adopted in December 2015, on his first day in office. Under the agreement’s rules, that means the U.S. will again become a party to the accord just months after the Trump administration’s bid to leave it became final on…
By [email protected] Distributed solar and storage company SunPower and panel manufacturer Maxeon Solar Technologies finalized their split on Thursday. The transaction, first announced in November, will allow SunPower to focus on its core business of residential and commercial solar and storage sales while Maxeon will continue manufacturing the premium solar panels SunPower has come to…
By [email protected] The U.S. Treasury Department released guidance Wednesday that offers onshore wind and solar projects more time to meet tax credit deadlines, an acknowledgement of the challenges brought by the coronavirus lockdown. Wind was the big winner: onshore projects that started construction in 2016 and 2017 will now have five rather than four years…
By [email protected] Tesla restarted work at its Fremont, California-based car factory this week, in defiance of a local shutdown order. The electric carmaker is also reportedly beginning to ramp production back up at its Gigafactory in Nevada as that state reopens, according to reporting from the Verge. That leaves just one of the company’s U.S.-based…
By [email protected] Huawei, Sungrow and SMA remained the solar inverter market leaders for the fifth year running, based on a new Wood Mackenzie report on the inverter market in 2019. These top three vendors have now held the same positions from 2015 to 2019. Fimer (ABB) saw the most significant market gains last year, a…
By [email protected] Sunrun maintained its position as the largest residential installer in the U.S. in the last quarter of 2019. As coronavirus emerges as a potential threat to demand, the Wood Mackenzie solar leaderboard data through Q4 2019 provides a snapshot of the state of play before COVID-19 – and a benchmark against which different…
By [email protected] Residential solar company Sungevity quietly laid off hundreds of employees last week, eliminating much of its workforce as the U.S. solar industry grapples with the coronavirus outbreak’s fallout. Sungevity eliminated 387 positions, according to a filing with California’s Employment Development Department, which requires that companies with more than 100 employees report mass layoffs….
By [email protected] A court has blocked the Trump Administration’s decision in October to take away the tariff exemptions it granted bifacial solar modules in June, offering a reprieve for U.S. solar developers and a small but fast-growing portion of the solar industry. In a Thursday order, the U.S. Court of International Trade agreed with renewables…
By [email protected] Connecticut on Thursday selected Vineyard Wind’s 804-megawatt Park City project as the winner of its first offshore wind solicitation, setting up the seaport city of Bridgeport to become a significant hub for the emerging U.S. market. Connecticut regulators said Vineyard won with a price “lower than any other publicly announced offshore wind project…
By [email protected] Sunnova, a leading U.S. residential solar and energy storage company, has filed paperwork to go public on the New York Stock Exchange, in what could be one of the biggest U.S. renewable-energy initial public offerings of recent years. Houston-based Sunnova last week quietly submitted a pre-IPO prospectus with U.S. securities regulators, giving investors…
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By [email protected] Solar capacity is gaining in urban areas across the U.S., according to a report released this week by Environment America Research & Policy Center and climate research organization the Frontier Group. The number of U.S. cities with more than 50 megawatts of solar installed jumped from eight in 2013 to 23 in 2018….
By [email protected] General Electric this week announced an expansion of GE Renewable Energy, in the latest iteration of the corporation’s energy business. The newly consolidated arm will house of GE’s renewable energy and grid assets — such as solar and storage, wind and hydropower — all in one place. The company said the change “strategically…
By [email protected] Solar Power International has entered a whole new world of smart energy devices. The trade show has been growing its tent for some years now. But the trend was particularly clear in 2018, with the event in Anaheim, California branded as part of North America Smart Energy Week. As adults dressed like Disney…