Utility-scale Solar Generation

Federal program leads to utility-scale solar boom in North Carolina

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North Carolina utilities must offer 15-year fixed-avoided cost contracts, longer terms than Arizona or Nevada A federal government program has propelled North Carolina, not considered to have the most attract solar resource, into second place in American installed utility-scale solar photovoltaic (PV) capacity, behind only California. Utility-scale – one megawatt (MW) or greater – solar PV growth […]

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Banking on batteries: SolarCity’s strategy to profit from the power grid

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Customers agree that if markets develop and SolarCity is dispatching the battery, the revenue is shared By Russell Gold.  Solar panel companies are often portrayed as the enemies of the power grid. Residential solar siphons off a utility’s top customers, leaving it with less revenue to keep the electric grid up and running. That’s what the whole death

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California solar is 5% of state power generation in 2014

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California solar more than all other States combined California solar reached a milestone during 2014:  The first American State with more than five per cent of its annual utility-scale electricity generation from utility-scale solar power. According to the Electric Power Monthly, published by the Energy Information Administration, California’s utility-scale (1 megawatt (MW) or larger) solar plants generated a

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