Featured in 50 Shades of Future PV – 04-2015

Solar comes to the South

USA: Only two states in the south of the US adopted renewable energy mandates that require their utilities to purchase electricity from renewable energy. Just a few years ago Southern utilities were openly opposed to solar energy in their service area. Now a wave of change is crashing through the region.

By

Christian Roselund

13 Apr 2015

In early February, a subsidiary of Duke Energy announced that it had bought a majority stake in REC Solar Inc. The two companies are quite different.Duke Energy is the largest electric power holding company in the United States, with 58 GW of conventional generation, while REC Solar is a developer of solar projects in the commercial …

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