Featured in #EpicFail – 07-2015

Better than grid parity

Cost-competitive PV: During the last two years, 5.5 GW of utility-scale solar PV projects have won contracts in the United States not under RPS requirements, but for economic reasons. Is this the beginning of solar out-competing other electricity sources?

By

Christian Roselund

01 Jul 2015

On a sunny day in late May, workers officially connected a 3.8 MW solar project to the grid on sandy ground in the U.S. state of Utah. The South Milford plant comprises tens of thousands of PV modules, and as such is the largest solar plant to come online in the state to date. While …

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