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News missouri solar legislation
Missouri avoids anti-solar legislation for now

The Missouri General Assembly adjourned without passing House Bill 340, which was an onerous new tax on solar energy users that would h...

May 15, 2017
News veto solar bill
Minnesota governor vetoes anti-solar net metering bill

The state legislature of Minnesota passed a bill that sought to make state utilities exempt from regulation by the Public Utilities Commissi...

March 21, 2017
News Indiana solar net metering
Indiana Senate bill on the table to end net metering...

Indiana is the latest state considering a change to its net metering rules at the behest of the utilities. Senate Bill 309 is vague on its t...

January 23, 2017
News solar atlanta
Georgia solar boom: Atlanta eases solar permitting process

Solar installation soft costs are real drivers of project economics, so the more streamlined permitting process become, the better outcome f...

October 31, 2016
News department of energy funding
Department of Energy to fund projects to reduce soft costs...

Discussions on further large reductions in solar installation prices start with soft costs. Knowing this, the Energy Department is pump...

October 25, 2016
News california net energy metering rules
California regulators say they deny all legal challenges to their...

All states seem to have a problem with net metering except the one that has the biggest and best solar industry going — California. Th...

September 29, 2016
News SunPower_Residential
What factors drive solar PV system prices lower?

Lower solar PV system costs are the driving force in much of the industry today, and strides on that front are the reason solar is in the gr...

September 23, 2016
News renewable energy opinion
How is the voting public prioritizing renewable energy?

As Americans count down to Election Day, more than three-quarters (78 percent) believe the winner of the presidential race should prioritize...

September 22, 2016
News maine solar net metering
Maine PUC proposes rule to phase out net-metering

The ups and downs of Maine’s solar industry continue after its Public Utilities Commission issued a proposed rule that would make...

September 21, 2016
Batteries massachusetts energy storage
Study: Massachusetts should install a ton of advanced energy storage...

The Massachusetts Department of Energy Resources (DOER) now recommends a suite of new policy and program actions to support the de...

September 20, 2016
News SEIA board of governors
Open letter (and petition) urges for change in SEIA’s board...

Two prominent voices for renewable energy have circulated an open letter to the Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA) and a petition to...

September 9, 2016
News Texas solar demand charges
Another demand charge bites the dust: El Paso Electric settlement...

The Texas Public Utilities Commission approved a settlement supported by El Paso Electric, the Office of Public Utility Counsel, Energy Free...

August 22, 2016
News SMA Sunnyboy inverter
SMA’s Sunny Boy passes UL 1741 SA testing to meet...

SMA says it is the first inverter manufacturer to complete functional and safety testing with UL according to the UL 1741 SA (Supplement A) ...

August 19, 2016
News Arizona solar net metering
Arizona regulators reject request to end net metering (but the...

Arizona’s solar industry won a victory last week, but how big of a victory remains to be seen. First, the good news: The Arizona Corpo...

August 16, 2016
News Nevada solar rates
Will Nevada revive its net metering rates? (or at least...

The residential solar industry in Nevada was buried earlier this year when the state’s regulators reduced the retail remuneration rate...

August 1, 2016
News Obama solar energy focus
Obama wants to give your community $100,000 to build community...

Since President Obama took office, solar electricity generation has increased 30 fold and solar jobs are growing 12 times faster than the re...

July 19, 2016
News sunrun ceo 2
Live at Intersolar: Sunrun CEO points toward solar+storage revolution

Every year, Intersolar North America takes places in San Francisco, which always provides the perfect backdrop for a show that wants to disc...

July 12, 2016
News San Diego solar
San Diego is first California city to hit solar cap...

San Diego beat larger metro areas including San Francisco and Los Angeles to become the first city in California to reach the solar cap in t...

July 5, 2016
News virginia carbon emissions plan
What impact will reducing carbon emissions have on Virginia?

Va. Governor Terry McAuliffe made a bold move this week, signing an executive order to establish a new process to reduce the state&rsqu...

June 30, 2016
News California Rule 21
California’s Rule 21 decision finalized, IREC considers it a ‘big...

The long-awaited, unanimous Rule 21 decision by the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) finally came to fruition this week an...

June 24, 2016
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