Politics & Society

The agency has rejected Iberdrola’s application for a 200 MW solar PV project in Southern California. This makes the first denial of a renewable energy project since 2010.

Several other organizations may join TASC in launching appeals to the ruling, which will heavily penalize rooftop PV in the U.S. state. Evidence has also surfaced that a regulator improperly advised utility We Energies in imposing the fees.

Mercom Capital’s strong 2015 outlook follows on a dismal 2014, with only 800 MW forecast by year’s end. This optimistic forecast is influenced by a variety of factors, including moves by the Modi administration.

The formation of the Mass Solar Coalition follows on the first meetings of a task force to look at the state’s solar policies. Among the coalition’s priorities will be lifting net metering caps.

The latest edition of IREC and VoteSolar’s Freeing the Grid finds no significant rollbacks to state net metering policies over the last twelve months, despite multiple attempts by utilities.

The International Energy Agency has released this year’s World Energy Outlook, which predicts ongoing growth in solar and other renewable energies in both the developed and developing world. However, other experts say the organization’s findings are still overly conservative.

A week after Energy Secretary Ernie Moniz announced US$53 million in awards for R&D at the Solar Power International trade show, the DOE is opening another funding opportunity focused on integrating higher penetrations of solar.

The bank’s latest research note from the Solar Power International trade show predicts continuing U.S. market growth through 2015, as well as a potential deal on tariffs against Chinese solar products.

At the Solar Power International trade show the head of the Department of Energy announced new investments in projects to drive down the cost of electricity from solar, as well as a new round of loan guarantees to be launched in 2015.

NPD Solarbuzz says that developers rushed to import Chinese and Taiwanese PV products into the United States in advance of preliminary tariffs, causing these products to take a dominant share of the market for the preceding four quarters.