A 2.9-Megawatt Solar Project For 10 Schools & 24% Of Richmond Public Schools’ Electricity Needs

Credit to Author: Cynthia Shahan| Date: Fri, 06 Dec 2019 14:20:32 +0000

Rooftop Solar Power Richmond Public Schools VirginiaStandard Solar, Inc. is now supporting Richmond Public Schools with a 2.9-megawatt solar project that should be completed this year. Solar arrays were installed at 10 elementary and high schools throughout the Richmond, Virginia, and Dominion Energy service area

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National Community Solar Program Tracker

Credit to Author: John Farrell| Date: Mon, 04 Nov 2019 20:25:59 +0000

Originally published at ilsr.org. Updated Quarterly How are Community Solar Garden programs doing across the country? For decades, rooftop solar has allowed homeowners to generate their own renewable energy — reducing their dependence upon grid energy and lowering their energy bills. However, solar rooftops are not an option for many people. What about those who [&hellip

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National Community Solar Programs Tracker

Credit to Author: John Farrell| Date: Mon, 04 Nov 2019 20:25:59 +0000

Originally published at ilsr.org. Updated Quarterly How are Community Solar Garden programs doing across the country? For decades, rooftop solar has allowed homeowners to generate their own renewable energy — reducing their dependence upon grid energy and lowering their energy bills. However, solar rooftops are not an option for many people. What about those who [&hellip

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Solar, Storage, & EV Charging: The Holy Trinity Of Home Energy Management At #SPI2019

Credit to Author: Kyle Field| Date: Wed, 09 Oct 2019 16:26:18 +0000

Solar Power International landed in Salt Lake City, Utah this year and CleanTechnica was on the ground meeting with the change makers, the disruptors, the doers, the movers, and the shakers. We’ve been diving into some of the companies we talked with, but having covered SPI for several years now, we wanted to highlight one of the newer arrivals at the show: electric vehicles

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Why Minnesota’s Community Solar Program Is The Best

Credit to Author: John Farrell| Date: Mon, 23 Sep 2019 19:05:03 +0000

Minnesota’s community solar program hit a record 613 megawatts of operational capacity in September 2019. The chart below shows the progress of projects through the program since August 2015, and the nearly two-year lag between the program launch in December 2014 and the successful ignition of multiple megawatts of capacity in January

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Community Solar Benefits Cooperatives and Customers

Credit to Author: Aaron Larson| Date: Mon, 16 Sep 2019 19:24:02 +0000

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For some utilities, community solar is a way to offer consumers access to clean energy without requiring investment in rooftop solar. For others, it presents a means of strategically placing solar resources in the most beneficial locations. Meanwhile, many utilities view it as an opportunity to learn how best to integrate distributed energy resources (DERs). […]

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sonnen & Wasatch Group Launch Largest Residential Virtual Power Plant — 12.6 MWh

Credit to Author: Kyle Field| Date: Tue, 27 Aug 2019 17:40:31 +0000

A new community of apartments in Herriman, Utah is being built from the ground up with a next generation energy storage system thanks to 12.6 megawatt-hours of sonnen’s ecoLinx battery systems. The new system will aggregate the energy storage and power output capabilities of 600 of sonnen’s 20 kWh ecoLinx intelligent energy storage units installed across the community into a single virtual power plant

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sonnen & Wasatch Group Launch Largest Residential Virtual Power Plant At 12.6 MWh

Credit to Author: Kyle Field| Date: Tue, 27 Aug 2019 17:40:31 +0000

A new community of apartments in Herriman, Utah is being built from the ground up with a next generation energy storage system thanks to 12.6 megawatt-hours of sonnen’s ecoLinx battery systems. The new system will aggregate the energy storage and power output capabilities of 600 of sonnen’s 20 kWh ecoLinx intelligent energy storage units installed across the community into a single virtual power plant

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FPL Plans to Build 1,500 MW of Solar in Next Two Years

Credit to Author: Darrell Proctor| Date: Fri, 15 Mar 2019 17:10:31 +0000

Florida Power & Light (FPL) continues to add to its solar power portfolio, with the utility on March 13 announcing plans to build the largest community solar program in the U.S. Eric Silagy, FPL’s president and CEO, in a statement said, “We’ve been aggressively expanding solar with one goal in mind: bringing more solar to […]

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