The Obama Administration seems to be messing with someone’s minds, and we’re guessing that the US coal industry is its target. Late last week, the US Bureau of Land Management announced that it was issuing 28 new coal leases on federal property in Wyoming, only to follow up a few … [continued]
Three new utility-scale solar projects will be installed by SunEdison in southern Utah with a capacity of 210 MW, enough to power about 36,000 homes.
From solar eclipse to solar leader: new report on global utility scale solar investment highlights US investors NRG Energy, MidAmerican.
Originally published on EIA. California has become the first state with more than 5% of its annual utility-scale electricity generation from utility-scale solar power, according to EIA’s Electric Power Monthly. California’s utility-scale (1 megawatt (MW) or larger) solar plants generated a record 9.9 million megawatthours (MWh) of electricity in 2014, … [continued]
Originally published on RenewEconomy. A major new study says policy makers and energy planners are still underestimating the cost potential of large scale solar, and that within in a decade, it will be cheapest form of power and will fall to 2c/kWh. A major new study from a leading German … [continued]
Originally published on RenewEconomy. Some time in the next few weeks, the first electricity from the first 100MW solar plant in Australia will be sent out to the national grid. The connection of the 102MW Nyngan solar farm in western NSW should finally lift Australia above the likes of the … [continued]
Whether you call it the Architecture of Abundance or the Plethora of Pipelines, the new GOP energy plan ignores the utility scale solar surge.
Hong Kong-based GCL-Poly Energy Holdings Limited has plans to build 2 gigawatts (GW) of solar power plants in China in 2015. If all goes well, the company could achieve 3 GW by 2017. Many of these projects are utility-scale, with some distributed generation mixed in. The company has connected 52 … [continued]
Want to know why 2014 was such a watershed shed year for utility-scale solar PV in the US? Well you need look no further than the graph that we’ve posted below, as it really says practically everything that needs to be said. As you can see, the ongoing drop in … [continued]
RenewEconomy. Sophie Vorrath. The global utility-scale solar market has clocked its fifth consecutive year of record growth, with newly released data showing total capacity has now reached 30.3GW, up from 21.5GW at the start of 2014. Figures released on Tuesday, along with the chart below, show that at the end … [continued]
