The 550-megawatt Topaz project is on-line and sending power to the California grid.
Topaz, largest solar plant in the world, is now fully operational
World’s biggest battery being built for Southern California’s grid
AES is building a 400 MW-hour lithium-ion battery for SCE as an alternative to gas peaker plants.
Will the BrightSource-Abengoa tower be last CSP project in US?
Can concentrated solar thermal (with or without storage) ever compete with photovoltaics in terms of electrical generation?
Stem banks $100M to finance no-money-down energy storage
Stem, a behind-the-meter energy storage startup, raised $100m to finance distributed energy storage at commercial and industrial customers.
SolarWorld wins again: US-China solar trade war deepens
Solar trade war between US and China risks escalation as new tariffs imposed in latest round.
Solar at grid parity in Utah, a coal state with no renewable standard
Energy consumers in Utah could soon be paying less for solar than for coal.
Sungevity teams with Germany’s E.ON to scale residential solar
US solar leasing firm Sungevity teams up with Germany’s biggest utility to enter European rooftop solar market.
Tesla CTO: We should all be thinking bigger on energy storage
JB Straubel shares his love of batteries in a interview discussing Tesla’s Gigafactory, energy storage technology, integrated renewables, and EVs.
Home of Big Oil to get 150MW solar plant at half cost of coal
Texas, home of Big Oil, gets 150MW solar plant that is cheaper than gas, half cost of coal, and almost one third cost of nuclear.
White House goes solar, as Obama pushes hard on PV
There is – once again – a 6.3kW solar system on the White House roof, as Obama gets major retail names to commit to 850MW of solar installations.
