Building on their previously announced partnership in September to develop 17 community solar farms in Massachusetts, ENGIE and Clean Energy Collective (CEC) have announced they will jointly pursue community solar farms throughout New England. Under the agreement, the companies will pursue solar projects in multiple Northeast states. 

Across the world 100 gigawatts of new solar power could be installed by the end of 2017, according to new research looking at sales of silicon. Another study found that another type of photovoltaics (PV) could provide up to 40 percent of the US’s energy needs. Meanwhile, solar power could get at least two new financing options in the US. 

Clean energy projects could soon get the same tax advantages that fossil fuel projects, like oil, gas and coal have been privy to for decades under a bill introduced in both houses of Congress by Republicans and Democrats. The bill, the Master Limited Partnerships Parity Act, would allow MLPs to be used to finance renewable energy projects, making them more attractive to investors.   

Solar power has boomed across US homes and among utilities, but one area of installations that continue to flounder are commercial and industrial installations, like at businesses or factories. Now the solar industry is pushing to use Commercial Property Assessed Clean Energy (C-PACE) as an important tool to help grow the commercial solar in the US.

The amount of solar power installed across the world continues to beat expectations almost every year and, if new research from Bernreuter Research proves to be correct, the amount of solar power installed in 2017 could be much higher previously expected. The German-based research firm anticipates that the amount of photovoltaics installed in 2017 could surpass 95 gigawatts and even reach 100 GWs.

There’s a lot of the glass covering buildings in the US. Enough, that if their glass was replaced or augmented with see-through solar panels, that those buildings could provide roughly 40 percent of the country’s power needs.  

Solar power continued to shine last week as yet another NFL stadium announced its solar installations. But solar continued to grow on a community level and utility-scale level as well. So are the complementary services like energy storage, with a new, 3,000 home community in Arizona coming with integrated energy storage and solar.

Florida Power and Light (FPL) has already added 1.25 million solar panels in 2017 and plans to add another 2.5 million panels by early 2018. The utility said that by 2020 it expects the amount of its installed solar power to surpass the total amount of energy it has coming from coal and oil combined.

Community solar power continues to grow across the US. Now South Carolina’s SCE&G and Clean Energy Collective (CEC) are building out 16 megawatts of community solar across three projects, in what the companies are calling one of the nation’s largest utility-sponsored community solar programs in the country. 

The sleek new home of the Atlanta Falcons, Mercedes-Benz Stadium, is the latest NFL stadium that’s shining under the power of the sun as more than 4,000 solar panels are now powering the stadium and parts of the nearby neighborhood. The roughly 1.3 megawatts (MWs) of solar power is part of the stadium’s efforts to seek LEED Platinum certification.