Featured in Trade barriers spoil solar's party – 09-2019

Solar tsunami

There’s a lot of solar power to be built in the United States before the end of 2023, when the current “safe harbor” period for the 30% Investment Tax Credit ends. If you’re reading this in September 2019, you’ve got four years and three full months to build large scale solar power plants under the ITC. But don’t fret if you’re reading later on and are afraid that you’re missing out, there’s development gas in the tank yet.

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John Fitzgerald Weaver

16 Sep 2019

Image: 8minute Solar Energy

Since the first time pv magazine performed this analysis back in January 2019, the volume of solar in utility scale regional transmission organization (RTO) queues across the United States has grown from 160 GW to more than 220 GW.Of course, a large part of this solar project volume won’t be built, but the information can help …

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