France’s Neoen SA has outlined plans to build a giant renewables complex in South Australia, including battery storage with up to nine times more capacity than the Tesla Inc. design […]
Australia hits 2020 large-scale renewables target
The Clean Energy Regulator of Australia has approved enough capacity to guarantee that the large-scale Renewable Energy Target of 33,000 GWh of additional renewable energy will be met in 2020. […]
PG&E Proposes Plan For 567 MW of Energy Storage
Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E) this week requested approval of four energy storage projects totaling approximately 567 megawatts (MW), in a filing at the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC). […]
Solar Developers May Be Able to Avoid Solar Tariffs Under New IRS Tax Credit Guidance
At the end of June, the U.S internal revenue service (IRS) clarified the rules surrounding when solar developers are allowed to take the 30 percent Investment Tax Credit (ITC) for […]
Arizona Public Service Issues RFP to Retrofit Solar Plants with Battery Storage
Arizona Public Service (APS) is looking to equip existing APS solar plants with battery storage and has issued an RFP to add up to 500 megawatts (MW) of energy storage […]
Pumped Hydropower Plus Wind, Solar Is Path To 100 Percent Renewable Energy
If you want to build pumped storage hydropower plants, don’t talk about pumped storage hydropower. That was the message delivered by Adam Rousselle, president of Renewable Energy Aggregators (REA) during […]
IRS Ruling on U.S. Credit Is an Unexpected Gift to Solar Developers
The Internal Revenue Service is extending incentives for solar power and other clean energy sources by as long as four years. View full article: IRS Ruling on U.S. Credit […]
Too Big to Succeed: Solar Titans Flop When They Climb to Top
In the past decade alone, four different companies — all Chinese — have surged to the top of the heap, becoming the biggest solar maker in the world, only to […]
As Mexican Solar Auction Prices Scrape Bottom, Will Quality be Threatened?
The latest round of solar auctions in Mexico yielded an unheard-of average price of US $20.57 per MW, including a $17.70 per MW bid by Enel, a coup for the […]
3@3 on Solar PV: China's Solar Market, POWER-GEN, Tesla
Today’s topics include the enormous solar market in China and how much solar the country is expected to install; POWER-GEN, the largest power show for the entire power industry and […]