As California Rolls Out More Solar Power, Regulators Could Undercut The Industry
Ken Silverstein for Forbes: The fall season is kicking off a sizzling solar power debate in California and one that has the potential to undercut the state’s climate mission.
Utility regulators there are in discussions over how to balance the interest of rooftop solar generators with the utilities on which they will still depend. Just how those hearings are resolved with have implications for the rollout of renewable energy not just in California but also around the country.
At issue is something called “net metering,” which is technical term used to measure the amount of money that rooftop solar generators should get paid relative to retail electricity prices. Utilities, generally, want to offer them the wholesale rate for what they send to them over the grid. Those are expensive wires to maintain and ones that all customers will use, even those who power their homes with solar panels. That’s because the sun is not always shining and the utilities would then have to provide them electricity over their networks.
The present net metering rules in California were set a dozen years ago, with the intent that they would expire when solar penetration reached 5 percent at any of three investor-owned utilities: Edison International’s SoCalEd, PG&E Corp. and Sempra Energy, which is nearing the threshold. Generally, those utilities are paying customers the full retail value for their electricity generated and transmitted. Cont'd...
NY Gov. Cuomo Pledges to Create Carbon Market use Solar, Wind to reduce Climate Change
This week former Vice President Al Gore joined with New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D) to sign the Under 2 MOU, a directive aimed at keeping climate change to a 2 degree Celsius rise in temperatures. The global directive is just one of four steps the governor took on Oct. 8 to limit carbon and pollution emissions in the state while encouraging more solar power development in the Empire state.
The SolarMax group takes new inverter production in operation
Since September the SolarMax group manufactures string and central inverters of the brand SolarMax for grid connected solar power systems in the Bavarian town Burgau.
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UK - It could be lights out for solar power under this government
Terry Macalister for The Guardian: Ministers rightly wring their hands over the 2,200 jobs being lost at the 98-year-old Redcar steelworks hit by low-cost Chinese competition. But they seem deaf to warnings of 27,000 jobs being potentially lost in a brand-new industry now facing crisis due to their own clumsy cuts.
Almost 1,000 redundancies have already been made by the solar panel installersMark Group and Climate Energy. No one in the industry believes this will be the end of the sad story.
The latest flashpoint for “green” developers is the government plan to slash the feed-in tariff – which subsidises people installing solar panels on their home – by almost 90%. Meanwhile, an energy-efficiency regime has been scrapped with only a vague promise of a future replacement.
If these were isolated examples, then companies might be willing to hang on in the hope of better things to come. But they are the latest in a series of cuts not just to solar but also to onshore wind, and come at a time when it seems maximum effort is being expended on removing roadblocks to shale-gas frackingand nuclear power. Cont'd...
WINAICO's 300 W PERC module wins Taiwan Excellent PV Award for best PV module in safety, reliability and efficiency
WINAICO's 300 W PERC 60-cell module passes the advanced liability tests conducted by ITRI to win Taiwan Excellent PV Award, presented by Bureau of Energy, of Ministry of Economic Affairs
The Americas stand out in solid Q3 for clean energy investment
A 25% rise in investment in the US, and much larger jumps for Brazil and Chile, were among the highlights as global investment reached $70bn in the third quarter
Hannah Solar Launches Hannah Home Energy in Partnership with Sonnenbatterie Inc.
Creating the First Exclusive Sonnenbatterie Center Partnership in the Southeast
Total Corporate Funding in Solar Sector Up Slightly with $6.2 Billion in Q3 2015, Reports Mercom Capital Group
VC funding up, debt financing up, public market financing down
Solar Frontier's CIS Modules Selected For 14 Megawatt Module Supply Agreement In The Midwestern US
Solar Frontier Continues To Expand US Footprint
GE Supports Growing Japanese Solar Market with Advanced Technology and Long Term Service
Following the Hosoe project, GE has once again been chosen to support another mega-solar project in Furukawa, Japan with its Brilliance skid inverter solutions
---A 20-year long term service contract to secure availability and energy yield over project lifetime
---GEs expertise and high quality & cost effective solutions will ensure positive returns on investment
NRG EVgo and Princeton Power Systems showcase ground-breaking electric car charging at Team OC's Solar Decathlon Home
NRG EVgo and Princeton Power Systems provide DC to DC technology for the University of California, Irvines Solar Decathlon Entry
A Flexible Dual-axis Solar Tracking System is able to Survive in Extreme Conditions
BIG SUN iPV Solar Tracker provides high reliability and high profit
Kina'ole Capital Partners Endorses the Energy Toolbase Software Platform to Installer Partner Network
Solar Finance Provider Kina'ole Capital Partners Endorses Solar Software Group Energy Toolbase as the Platform of Choice
Yaskawa - Solectria Solar Provides Inverters for One of the Largest Professional Sport Stadium PV Systems in North America
Yaskawa - Solectria Solar, a leading U.S. PV inverter manufacturer, announced today that it has provided its PVI 28TL inverters to Russell Pacific and Auric Solar for Rio Tinto Stadium. This 2MW system will offset 73 percent of the stadium's total annual power needs - the largest offset for any professional stadium in North America.
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