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05.14.19 Solar 50

WoodMac: Solar Plants Cheaper Than Natural Gas ‘Just About Everywhere’ by 2023

The days of new gas-fired plants keeping up with utility solar on a levelized cost basis may soon be over. But the rise of competitive renewables auctions means profits will be hard to come by, even in an expanding market.

by Karl-Erik Stromsta

05.14.19 Smart Homes/Smart Buildings 0

UK Battery Startup Moixa Lands $11M From Honda and Itochu

Startup with megawatts of behind-the-meter batteries under management gets boost from current Japanese virtual power plant partner and soon-to-be European EV integration partner.

by Jeff St. John

05.13.19 Solar 14

Chinese Solar Inverters Hit by Latest US Trade Tariffs, but Impact Seen as Muted

The increasingly globalized solar supply chain has been preparing for the possibility of more U.S. tariffs on components made in China. But the cumulative impact of tariffs is building.

by Emma Foehringer Merchant

05.13.19 Fossil Fuels 58

Gas Plant Rejection Brings the Energy Transition Home to Indiana

Vectren South wanted to replace baseload coal capacity with a massive gas plant. Regulators told the Indiana utility to consider more options in a fast-moving energy world.

by Julian Spector

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05.13.19 Grid Edge 9

Microgrids face lengthy permitting times and components that remain too expensive.

Lessons Learned From California’s Pioneering Microgrids

Four years ago California funded seven microgrid demonstration projects, from fire stations to a college campus. How have they performed, and what do they say about the future?

by Justin Gerdes

05.10.19 4

Solar loans will start to look increasingly like regular consumer loans.

Research Spotlight

As Solar Loans Start to Dominate, Loan Providers See Increasing Value in Installer Networks

As a result of the ITC stepdown, solar loans will increasingly start to look like regular consumer loans.

by Chloe Holden

05.10.19 Wind 44

Floating Offshore Wind Holds Promise for Vertical-Axis Turbines

Vertical-axis wind turbines have failed to make a dent in the thriving global wind energy business. But proponents say the technology may be well suited to the emerging floating offshore market.

by Jason Deign

05.10.19 Policy 2

There's zero chance of getting the bill past the self-proclaimed “Grim Reaper” Mitch McConnell.

Why House Democrats Passed a Paris Accord Bill That’s Going Nowhere

Political Climate speaks with Rep. Kathy Castor on passing HR 9, the first meaningful climate change bill to pass the House of Representatives in nearly a decade.

by Julia Pyper

05.09.19 Solar 5

Company CEO Tom Werner says restructuring efforts are bearing fruit.

SunPower Marks Q1 Loss Amid Restructuring to Focus on Distributed Solar and Storage

“SunPower will become an energy service provider, based on the world’s best solar systems,” CEO Tom Werner tells Greentech Media.

by Jeff St. John

05.09.19 Energy 3

Big Companies Quietly Embracing the Energy Transition

On this week’s Interchange podcast: the lesser-known corporate drivers of the energy transition.

by Stephen Lacey

05.09.19 Grid Edge 17

Uber, Lyft, Maven and other rideshare companies are seeing increased EV adoption across their fleets.

Electric Ridesharing Benefits the Grid, and EVgo Has the Data to Prove It

Rideshare services like Uber and Lyft are offering more electric vehicles, boosting the need for fast charging. That may help the grid in high-solar states like California.

by Julia Pyper

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Dominion, Virginia’s Top Utility, Faces a Radical Energy Policy Challenge

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Dominion, Virginia’s Top Utility, Faces a Radical Energy Policy Challenge

Will Virginia become the new Texas? A motley coalition of groups wants to see the state’s energy market deregulated and utility Dominion transformed into a “wires-only” provider.

by Jeff St. John | May 9, 2019

05.09.19 Solar 11

US Surpasses 2 Million Solar Installations as Industry Looks to ‘Dominate’ the 2020s

The market’s rapid growth has “reshaped the energy conversation in this country,” says Abigail Ross Hopper, president and CEO of the Solar Energy Industries Association.

by Emma Foehringer Merchant

05.08.19 Residential Solar 3

Sunrun expects to grow its rooftop solar deployments by as much as 18 percent this year.

Sunrun Puts Up Strong Deployment and Sales Growth as It Prepares for ITC Stepdown

The company sees itself as well positioned to serve the market for California’s new-home solar requirement.

by Julian Spector

05.08.19 Wind 13

Siemens CEO Joe Kaeser is going big on e-mobility and storage.

Siemens to Spin Off Gas and Power Division, Merge It With Wind Turbine Supplier SGRE

The German industrial giant will separate its energy division, while betting the future on its Digital Industries and Smart Infrastructure businesses.

by Karl-Erik Stromsta

05.08.19 Grid Edge 5

Centrica, SSE and Sonnen are involved in local energy market projects in the U.K.

With Its Island Grid, the UK Is Forced to Take the Lead in Developing Local Energy Markets

Britain’s early local energy markets go beyond most current transactional microgrid concepts, as the country grapples with surging renewables and a lack of interconnections.

by Jason Deign

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05.07.19 Solar 4

Two-year-old CCA Peninsula Clean Energy expects a boost from its credit rating as it buys more renewables.

In New Challenge for California’s Utilities, Rating Agency Warms to Community Aggregators

Peninsula Clean Energy became the second of California’s CCAs to obtain an investment-grade credit rating from Moody’s. More could be coming, with implications for the renewables market.

by Karl-Erik Stromsta

05.07.19 Grid Edge 0

Itron, Landis+Gyr Duel for Market Share in Grid Networking

The world’s two biggest publicly traded smart metering and grid networking providers reported their financial results this week, highlighting supply challenges and global competition.

by Jeff St. John

In many regards, batteries are safer to install than rooftop solar, the author says.

May 16, 2019 Grid Edge

10 Mistakes I’ve Made Selling and Installing Battery Storage Systems

18 by Barry Cinnamon

May 20, 2019 Solar

Questions About Tesla’s ‘Low-Cost Solar’ Announcement

5 by Max Aram

May 8, 2019 Wind

Siemens to Spin Off Gas and Power Division, Merge It With Wind Turbine Supplier SGRE

13 by Karl-Erik Stromsta

05.13.19 Fossil Fuels

Gas Plant Rejection Brings the Energy Transition Home to Indiana

58 by Julian Spector

05.14.19 Solar

WoodMac: Solar Plants Cheaper Than Natural Gas ‘Just About Everywhere’ by 2023

50 by Karl-Erik Stromsta

05.10.19 Wind

Floating Offshore Wind Holds Promise for Vertical-Axis Turbines

44 by Jason Deign

05.07.19 Solar 1

Clearway is among the largest publicly traded owners of renewable energy capacity in the U.S.

Clearway Hit by Weak Q1 Renewables Production as It Awaits PG&E Resolution

The renewables operator is heavily exposed to contracts with bankrupt California utility PG&E.

by Emma Foehringer Merchant

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One Gas Peaker Down, Many More to Go

The Puente gas plant procurement saga has validated what the energy storage has been promising. It’s time to take the lessons learned in California elsewhere.

by Julian Spector | May 7, 2019

05.07.19 Batteries, Storage & Fuel Cells 12

Bloom’s revenue story distinguishes it from the rest of the fuel cell pack.

Bloom Energy Maintains Momentum in Fuel Cell Revenue but Losses Persist

The long-awaited takeoff of the microgrid market offers big potential for Bloom, as it struggles to break away from the loss-making fuel cell industry.

by Eric Wesoff

05.06.19 Solar 0

SolarEdge Hauls in Record Revenue Following Recent Non-Solar Acquisitions

Branching beyond its mainline solar operations, SolarEdge is spending money integrating recent acquisitions running from batteries to EV drivetrains.

by Jeff St. John

05.06.19 Solar 3

US Solar Industry’s Top Jobs Remain Dominated by White Men

A new report shows “a pronounced lack of diversity across gender, ethnicity and race at the executive level” among American solar companies.

by Emma Foehringer Merchant

05.06.19 Policy 0

PG&E Under Investigation by SEC Over Wildfire Losses

The bankrupt California utility faces $1.4 billion of extra costs in 2019 related to recent wildfires as the state’s most pressing energy and climate change policy crisis rumbles forward.

by Jeff St. John

05.06.19 Wind 2

More than 11 gigawatts of wind capacity changed hands across Europe in 2018.

Institutional Investors Fuel M&A Frenzy in Europe’s Wind Market

A swell of project acquisitions is driving investment growth in Europe’s wind market. “There’s a huge amount of capital stored up which can’t find deals,” says one financial adviser.

by Jason Deign

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Floating Solar Excels Where Land Is Scarce, and That's a Lot of Places

SunPower Fleshes Out Future Vision as an Energy Services Company

Questions About Tesla's 'Low-Cost Solar' Announcement

Elon Musk at Model Y Reveal: ‘This Is the Year of the Solar Roof and Powerwall’

How Facebook's Predictive Grid Map Can Identify African Off-Grid Market Opportunities

10 Mistakes I've Made Selling and Installing Battery Storage Systems

APS Stands Behind Storage Expansion Plans in Wake of Battery Facility Fire

New York's Energy Storage Incentive Could Spur Deployment of 1.8GWh

Southern California Edison Picks 195MW Battery Portfolio in Place of Puente Gas Plant

EDP and Engie Team Up to Conquer Offshore Wind

GE's Record-Breaking 12MW Offshore Wind Turbine Wins Backing of Swedish Utility Vattenfall

Wind Living in Solar's World: A Strategy for the US Wind Industry

Floating Solar Excels Where Land Is Scarce, and That's a Lot of Places

SunPower Fleshes Out Future Vision as an Energy Services Company

Questions About Tesla's 'Low-Cost Solar' Announcement

Renewables May Prove Cheaper Than 96% of Coal Plants Worldwide by 2030

The Key to Unlocking ‘Renewables as Baseload’ Is the Control System

A Look at Chevron’s Dip Into Clean Energy Investing

Beyond the PPA: A Company’s Guide to Renewable Energy Procurement

How Corporations Can Embrace Distributed Energy Like Never Before

2019 State of Demand-Side Energy Management in North America

WoodMac: Solar Plants Cheaper Than Natural Gas ‘Just About Everywhere’ by 2023

UK Battery Startup Moixa Lands $11M From Honda and Itochu

Chinese Solar Inverters Hit by Latest US Trade Tariffs, but Impact Seen as Muted

Gas Plant Rejection Brings the Energy Transition Home to Indiana

Lessons Learned From California’s Pioneering Microgrids

As Solar Loans Start to Dominate, Loan Providers See Increasing Value in Installer Networks

Floating Offshore Wind Holds Promise for Vertical-Axis Turbines

Why House Democrats Passed a Paris Accord Bill That’s Going Nowhere

SunPower Marks Q1 Loss Amid Restructuring to Focus on Distributed Solar and Storage

Big Companies Quietly Embracing the Energy Transition

Electric Ridesharing Benefits the Grid, and EVgo Has the Data to Prove It

Dominion, Virginia’s Top Utility, Faces a Radical Energy Policy Challenge

US Surpasses 2 Million Solar Installations as Industry Looks to ‘Dominate’ the 2020s

Sunrun Puts Up Strong Deployment and Sales Growth as It Prepares for ITC Stepdown

Siemens to Spin Off Gas and Power Division, Merge It With Wind Turbine Supplier SGRE

With Its Island Grid, the UK Is Forced to Take the Lead in Developing Local Energy Markets

In New Challenge for California’s Utilities, Rating Agency Warms to Community Aggregators

Itron, Landis+Gyr Duel for Market Share in Grid Networking

Clearway Hit by Weak Q1 Renewables Production as It Awaits PG&E Resolution

One Gas Peaker Down, Many More to Go

Bloom Energy Maintains Momentum in Fuel Cell Revenue but Losses Persist

SolarEdge Hauls in Record Revenue Following Recent Non-Solar Acquisitions

US Solar Industry’s Top Jobs Remain Dominated by White Men

PG&E Under Investigation by SEC Over Wildfire Losses

Institutional Investors Fuel M&A Frenzy in Europe’s Wind Market