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Inside California’s Community Solar Experiment
by info@greentechmedia.com on March 18, 2019 at 9:42 pm
The California Public Utilities Commission has approved two sweeping programs in recent years to spur community solar construction in the state, but the market has yet to gain real traction. Solar developers are now scrambling to organize projects as these programs advance and as new opportunities crop up. “There is not a community solar market yet, but we're about to experiment with it in a real way,” said CPUC Commissioner Martha Guzman Aceves, in an interview with GTM. […]
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Tottenham Hotspur station is a bad idea | Brief letters
by Letters on March 18, 2019 at 7:20 pm
White Hart Lane | A hug that said it all | Car-free rambles | Solar power | Breakup songs | Brexit BrelI’m a long-term Tottenham resident and lifelong Spurs fan living just a few minutes’ walk from the stadium. There is no need to waste public money on renaming White Hart Lane rail station as Tottenham Hotspur (Report, 18 March). Spurs are known for playing at “The Lane”. The effort by the current owners of Spurs to get the name changed is another attempt by corporate […]
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Sonnedix closes on US$283 million corporate facility
on March 18, 2019 at 5:43 pm
Sonnedix, a global solar independent power producer, has closed a US$283 million corporate facility, which will retire existing debt and enable further growth acceleration as Sonnedix looks to acquire and develop new projects in OECD countries. […]
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Biosar installs 27MW of Suntech’s PV modules at Shell’s first large-scale solar project
on March 18, 2019 at 5:30 pm
Solar EPC contractor Biosar Energy has installed 27MW of Suntech’s PV modules at the Moerdijk Solar Park, one of the largest PV projects ever developed within the Netherlands. In total, 76,000 of Suntech’s high efficiency, monocrystalline, half-cell solar modules were delivered at the site. […]
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Atlas Renewable Energy completes financing of US$152 million for three PV projects in Brazil
on March 18, 2019 at 5:16 pm
Atlas Renewable Energy has completed long-term financing for three of its solar energy plants in Brazil for a total amount of US$152 million. This financing was achieved through Banco do Nordeste (BNB), backed by an equivalent sum of commercial bank guarantees from BTG Pactual, Banco ABC Brasil, and Banco Bradesco. […]
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Maine renews net metering as lawmakers prep new clean energy, utility reform bills
on March 18, 2019 at 4:06 pm
Policymakers are mulling aggressive actions to change the state's energy landscape, including purchasing Maine's two investor-owned utilities and converting them to a customer-owned model. […]
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Kentucky rolls back net metering, bucking recent pro-solar trend elsewhere
on March 18, 2019 at 2:31 pm
Legislation approved Thursday contrasts with two recent wins for solar deployment in Maine and Arkansas, where both business and ratepayer advocates favored eliminating market barriers. […]
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France’s fifth ground-mounted PV auction ends with 118 winners
on March 18, 2019 at 12:53 pm
Solarcentury, Engie projects secure a spot at tender targeting 500kW-30MW installations, with average prices reaching €62.7/MWh. […]
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SECI tenders 2GW of local content solar under CPSU scheme
on March 18, 2019 at 12:17 pm
SECI follows through with its tender promise earlier this month as the public sector solar scheme starts to ramp up. […]
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As first US utility-scale offshore wind project nears approval, supply chain, permitting come into focus
on March 18, 2019 at 12:00 pm
Despite a lack of domestic components and a complex permitting process, Vineyard Wind is confident in its ability to move forward this summer with construction of its 800 MW project off the coast of Massachusetts. […]
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Steel-for-fuel, data-for-fuel, and other good ideas for asset retirement
on March 18, 2019 at 12:00 pm
Balanced, collaborative and innovative stakeholder processes can help regulators align securitization of obsolete power plants with the public interest. […]
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ACWA-led Kuwaiti consortium wins 500MW Oman solar tender
on March 18, 2019 at 11:49 am
ACWA Power continues its success in the Gulf with a victory in Oman. […]
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EkoRE building world’s first ever vertically integrated heterojunction module factory in Turkey
on March 18, 2019 at 11:33 am
Turkey-based renewables firm EkoRE has broken ground on the world’s first vertically integrated heterojunction (HJT) module factory in Turkey with an expected initial nameplate capacity of 1GW. […]
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Argentina set to top Latin PV roster with planned 600MW project
on March 18, 2019 at 11:21 am
President Mauricio Macri confirms further expansion for China-backed Cauchari, with the initial 300MW poised to finish construction this August. […]
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Wind generated more than one-third of electricity last week in the UK
on March 18, 2019 at 10:50 am
RenewableUK highlighted last week that Great Britain’s onshore and offshore wind farms generated more electricity than any other source of power last week. […]
