Rooftop

Rooftop solar applications and interconnections are increasing across Hawaiian Electric’s five-island service territory, despite COVID-19, according to a press release from Hawaiian Electric. New applications totaled 126 for the week…

No doubt, distributed energy resources (DER) are here to stay. The shift from stationary power to distributed generation is forcing the energy industry to come up with new methods to measure the value of DER. People generally refer to the…

The global pandemic has put a pause to all kinds of commerce. As wildfire season nears and climate change worsens, are solar and storage companies still preparing communities for the disasters ahead? In this episode of the Local…

A group of unidentified participants called the New England Ratepayers Association (NERA) has filed a petition with FERC asking the governing body to take over jurisdiction of net-metering renumeration for homes and businesses that…

On October 2, 2018 at the Vigyan Bhawan auditorium in New Delhi, Prime Minister Narendra Modi, said, “We have a dream: One World One Sun One Grid. We generate round the clock electricity from the Sun as it sets in one part of the world…

India’s largest utility, Tata Power, has announced that its portfolio of renewable energy capacity currently stands at 3883 MW. This marks a 7% increase from the corresponding quarter last year. The energy provider has expanded its…

This week, renewable energy investor, Excelsior Energy Capital, and solar energy systems developer and investor, Unico Solar Investors, announced the closing of a joint-venture partnership to build, own and operate a 250-MW pipeline of…

Investment firm, Energy Impact Partners (EIP), and NextPower III, a fund managed by NextEnergy Capital Group (NEC), announced the closing of an agreement of a 102 MW portfolio of community solar projects in upstate New York. This…

Inovateus Solar, a solar developer, and En-Trust, an energy service and finance company for K-12 education, announced last week that they are collaborating on ten solar and energy efficiency projects for six Ohio school districts.…

Last week Enel X said it has partnered with the San Diego Blood Bank to deliver and manage a solar and battery storage system. By combining onsite solar generation with a battery storage system, the Blood Bank will be able to…