U.S. Power & Renewables Summit 2017

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SolarWorld Americas US solar manufacturing facility.

10.17.17 Markets & Policy

The Potential Impact of Solar Tariffs in 12 Charts

by Shayle Kann and MJ Shiao

10.16.17 Wind

This Controversial Law Could Stifle the US Offshore Wind Market

11 by Emma Foehringer Merchant

10.17.17 PV Modules

SunPower Founder Dick Swanson’s Guide to Launching a Cleantech Startup

0 by Julian Spector

10.17.17 Demand Response 0

Evolutions in Demand Response: Tapping Locational Value With Pinpoint DR

Central Hudson’s non-wires alternatives program is brand-new. Gulf Power’s is 20 years old. Both can serve locational grid needs today, if technology and policy align.

by Jeff St. John

10.17.17 Electric Vehicles 2

Public transit agencies got federal funds to electrify bus fleets.

Industry Perspective

How Federal Grants Are Accelerating the Adoption of Electrified Mass Transit

Black & Veatch’s Paul Stith explains why the migration toward electric buses is picking up speed.

by Paul Stith

Looking Beyond DOE’s NOPR, a Case for Grid Flexibility Alongside Reliability

GTM Squared

Looking Beyond DOE’s NOPR, a Case for Grid Flexibility Alongside Reliability

Energy Innovation has some ideas for the grid beyond cost recovery for coal piles. Plus, FERC Acting Chairman Neil Chatterjee speaks, and the California SGIP targets low-income communities.

by Jeff St. John | October 17, 2017

10.17.17 Manufacturing 4

Stion discontinues operations despite solar trade case.

American Solar Manufacturer Stion to ‘Discontinue Operations’

Restructuring and job cuts come despite the fact that Stion’s “Made in the USA” panels stand to benefit from new solar tariffs.

by Julia Pyper

October 9, 2017 Electric Vehicles

New Amazon Drones Will Charge Your Car While You Drive

16 by Emma Foehringer Merchant

October 4, 2017 Solar Projects

Saudi Solar Bid Makes Solar Cheapest Electricity in the World, but There’s a Catch

48 by Emma Foehringer Merchant

October 5, 2017 Regulation & Policy

Behind the Backlash to Energy Secretary Rick Perry’s Demand for Coal-Nuclear Market Intervention

40 by Jeff St. John

10.06.17 Energy

Work in Clean Energy? We Want Your Thoughts

155 by Emma Foehringer Merchant

10.05.17 Electric Vehicles

Could the Ideal Electric Vehicle Be a Hybrid?

124 by Jason Deign

10.04.17 Energy

Renewables to Account for a Third of Global Power Generation in 2022

99 by Emma Foehringer Merchant

10.16.17 1

Startup LevelTen Energy Wants Companies to Buy Renewables Like Mutual Funds

LevelTen Energy just raised $6.8 million to show renewable energy purchases are no longer just for tech giants.

by Katie Fehrenbacher

10.16.17 Markets & Policy 25

How to Solve Hawaii’s Solar Problem: Smart Imports

Creating a “smart imports” program could make excess solar a solution instead of an issue.

by Tam Hunt

10.16.17 Solar Finance & VC 7

Commercial and industrial rooftop solar.

Industry Perspective

How SEIA’s New Model PPA Will Enable Wide-Scale C&I Solar Deployment

The PPA could unlock the enormous potential of C&I solar by dramatically lowering legal and other due diligence costs.

by Mike Mendelsohn

10.16.17 Other Energy 54

NREL bioreactor at power to gas pilot facility.

Novel Power-to-Gas Tech Begins Testing in the US

A new pilot combines hydrogen, microbes and biogas to perform energy storage.

by Katie Fehrenbacher

Grid Edge

Fly over the islands of Indonesia to see how mobile power plants work

Julian Spector explores the latest must-hear news from the energy storage industry.

GTM Squared

What Financiers Want to See From Energy Storage

Plus: Seeing storage in the ashes of California’s wildfire, a virtual power plant that really earns its name, and a stunning storage denouement.

by Julian Spector | October 13, 2017

10.13.17 Regulation & Policy 75

Two Coal Plants Close in Texas, as Trump Admin Pushes Pro-Coal Agenda

More than half the nation’s coal plants have now closed since 2010. It’s unclear if a controversial effort to support coal can reverse that trend.

by Jeff St. John

Upcoming Webinar

Upcoming Webinar System Design Using Virtual Central Inverters: How Systems Benefit from Central & String Inverters

Tuesday October 17, 2017 2:00 PM ET

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Upcoming Webinar

Upcoming Webinar Virtual Power Plants & the Road to DERMS: It’s a Distributed Energy World

Tuesday October 24, 2017 2:00 PM ET

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10.13.17 Grid Edge 0

Watch Itron Utility Week 2017 Live From Houston

by Ashley Fallon

10.13.17 Electric Vehicles 1

A Shell gas station in Bethel, Connecticut.

Shell Buys Slice of the Electric Vehicle Market With Purchase of NewMotion

Oil and gas majors continue exploring new markets in electrification.

by Emma Foehringer Merchant

10.13.17 Utilities 4

Electric distribution systems power cables and transformers in Salem, Massachusetts

Industry Perspective

The 4 Main Pillars of Enhancing Utility Grid Resilience

ICF presents several ways to protect the grid from extreme weather events—and a framework for paying for them.

by Philip Mihlmester, Anne Choate

10.13.17 Grid Optimization 44

Intermittent Renewables Are Up. So Where Is All of the Gas?

Europe’s wind leaders have different ways of dodging power-balance issues besides just firing up more gas turbines.

by Jason Deign

Featured White Paper

PJM Capacity Performance Is Here. Don’t Believe The Myths.

In the foreseeable future, Capacity Performance will be PJM’s only game in town for forward capacity Demand Response.

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Featured White Paper

Making Utility-Integrated Energy Storage A Used, Useful & Universal Resource

The use of distributed resources such as PVs and EVs are expanding at a rapid pace, creating technical challenges for the distribution system that will require energy storage and a new generation of software to address.

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10.12.17 Regulation & Policy 52

Perry to Congress: Price Tag on DOE Proposal to Prop Up Coal; Nuclear Is the ‘Cost of Freedom’

Lawmakers grill DOE chief over his rush request for federal cost-recovery mandate in the name of grid resiliency.

by Jeff St. John

10.12.17 Energy Storage 9

Sonnen and Mandalay Homes virtual power plant development.

Sonnen Brings Its Virtual Power Plant to the US With a 2,900-Home Project

The plan: Build first, find a utility contract later.

by Julian Spector

Upcoming Events

10.12.17 Solar Finance & VC 2

A Look at Brookfield’s YieldCo Buying Spree

The 2015 YieldCo bust has given Brookfield the opportunity to buy valuable clean energy assets on the cheap.

by Tom Konrad

10.12.17 Off Grid/Energy Access 12

National guard presence in Loiza and Canóvanas after Hurricane Maria, showing power lines.

Can the Clean Energy Industry Protect Puerto Rico From Maria-Scale Damage?

For renewables advocates, Puerto Rico may act as a study on how to build a clean grid from the ground up.

by Emma Foehringer Merchant

10.12.17 Solar 0

Utility-scale solar power plant and worker monitoring systems.

GTM Research Spotlight

7 Trends Shaping the Global Solar PV Monitoring Market

A recent report from GTM Research identifies worldwide trends in the monitoring and control of solar PV systems.

by Cedric Brehaut

10.12.17 Utility-Scale Solar 2

An eSolar CSP plant reflects sunlight at its power tower.

Concentrated Solar Power Contender ESolar Goes AWOL

The third-largest U.S. power tower developer is missing, presumed dead.

by Jason Deign

Upcoming Webinar

Upcoming Webinar Designing for Maximum Energy Production with Solar Trackers

Thursday October 26, 2017 2:00 PM ET

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Upcoming Webinar

Upcoming Webinar PJM: State of the Market

Tuesday November 14, 2017 2:00 PM ET

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10.11.17 Manufacturing 18

Thin film solar manufacturing and solar trade case

First Solar Comes Out in Favor of a Section 201 Trade Case Remedy

The thin-film solar manufacturer has joined with trade case petitioners Suniva and SolarWorld.

by Julia Pyper

10.11.17 Regulation & Policy 10

FERC Won’t Slow Fast-Track Review of DOE’s Proposal to Help Coal, Nuclear

The biggest potential change to energy markets in decades will move ahead on a 60-day timeline, despite protests by every energy sector except coal and nuclear.

by Jeff St. John

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10.11.17 Energy Storage 2

Green Charge Moves Into Utility-Scale Storage With Massachusetts Project

And tries out a new storage financing model in the process.

by Julian Spector

10.11.17 Software & Analytics 10

Why the DOE Needs Blockchain to Secure the Grid

The grid edge is becoming too shaky to shield with traditional defenses.

by Jason Deign

Featured White Paper

How String Inverters Are Changing Solar Management on the Grid

Learn how string inverters are creating a new paradigm for how solar power plants can interact with, and support, power grids across the globe.

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Featured White Paper

The Financial Impact of Net Energy Metering 2.0 Policy

Net Energy Metering (NEM) 2.0 is now the official utility rate policy for solar customers in California – but few people truly understand what it means for the returns of residential solar installations.

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10.11.17 Utilities 0

GTM Research Spotlight

Utility-Branded Marketplaces Offer DER Services to 32 Million Metered Customers

Nascent online utility platforms increase customer access to energy efficiency and load-altering mechanisms. Just how big is the opportunity?

by Olivia Chen

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