Utility Solar Incentive to Grow Utah’s Solar Industry by 600 percent
After nearly a decade of strategic collaboration, two regulatory dockets, more than 170 stakeholder comments, hundreds of hours of meetings, and a 6-inch regulatory archive binder, sunny Utah has made solar history. On October 1, 2012, the Public Service Commission of Utah approved Rocky Mountain Power’s (RMP) request to offer a significantly expanded solar [...]
The Installed Price of Solar Photovoltaic Systems in the U.S. Continues to Decline at a Rapid Pace
(Press Release, Berkeley, CA, Nov 27) — The installed price of solar photovoltaic (PV) power systems in the United States fell substantially in 2011 and through the first half of 2012, according to the latest edition of Tracking the Sun, an annual PV cost-tracking report produced by the Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley [...]
Denver is First ‘Solar Friendly Community’
DENVER RECOGNIZED AS FIRST SOLAR FRIENDLY COMMUNITY (Press Release, Nov 27) The City and County of Denver is the first municipality to be recognized as a Solar Friendly Community under an innovative new program designed to help bring down the costs of solar energy. Denver Mayor Michael B. Hancock accepted the award at a ceremony [...]
IEA: Renewables To Equal Coal by 2035
LONDON, 12 November – The global energy map is changing in dramatic fashion, the International Energy Agency said as it launched the 2012 edition of the World Energy Outlook (WEO). The Agency’s flagship publication, released today in London, said these changes will recast expectations about the role of different countries, regions and fuels in the [...]
U.S. ITC Approves Tariffs but Rolls Back Retroactive Fees
CRYSTALLINE SILICON PHOTOVOLTAIC CELLS AND MODULES FROM CHINA INJURE U.S. INDUSTRY, SAYS USITC (ITC press release, Nov. 7) The U.S. International Trade Commission (USITC) today determined that a U.S. industry is materially injured by reason of imports of crystalline silicon photovoltaic cells and modules from China that the U.S. Department of Commerce (Commerce) has determined [...]
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