Last week over 400 concerned solar companies sent a letter to Congress expressing deep concern about their efforts to lift President Biden’s 2-year moratorium on new solar tariffs. SEIA’s analysis shows that doing so would eliminate 30,000 American jobs and 4 GW of solar project deployment this year.
This article does a detailed dive into the idea of dual-use in solar. It highlights the role of elevated solar trackers in applications around both agrivoltaics and parking lots as well as campuses, hotel grounds, industrial operations, fields, parks, and other green spaces – pretty much wherever maintaining full use of the ground is vital.
This GreenBiz article explores community solar and how the model helps to close the equity gap around the clean energy movement. It explains how subscription-based solar brings savings to underserved communities and lays out the various state and federal policies that help grow the model (including the IRA).
EagleView Technologies launched TrueDesign Version 2.0. Its got new features including proposal integrations, improved shade analysis, 3D environment/3D shade scene, tree removal capabilities, tablet support for sales enablements and the ability to design with solar tiles.
Later this year, Generac will be unleashing its commercial-scale lithium energy storage system. The SBE series battery ranges in capacity from 200 kWh to 1,000 kWh and can come in either LFP or NMC chemistries. It can pair with Generac’s line of gas and diesel generators for long-duration backup.
In this fourth video in the seven-part series, Joe Tanner, Director of Sales at Enact Systems, and Kerim Baran of SolarAcademy review a brief product demo for Enact’s system. Joe talks about how to use it for design, financing, proposals and leads. The video is below.
In the fifth of a nine part SunCast/SolarAcademy solar conversation, Ted Thomas, founder of Energized Strategies and former chair of the Arkansas Public Service Commission, looks at the concept of cost of service rate making for energy infrastructure investments. He explains the process of determining the rate of return for infrastructure investments, the impact of debt and equity financing, and the benefits and risks for customers. The video is below.
