The Campbell Soup Co. will soon get 20 percent of its energy at its worldwide headquarters in Camden, NJ, from 4.4 megawatts of solar power being installed on-site. It’s Campbell’s third solar installation at one of its locations and will be the largest solar system in Camden. 

When the Department of Energy (DOE) Secretary Ricky Perry, a former Republican governor of Texas, ordered an electric grid reliability report in April, the renewables industry was concerned that it was an effort to emphasize the importance of “baseload power” like coal. At the same time it was concerned it would fault wind and solar power for not producing power at all times. But this might not be the case—at least if a draft of the report reportedly obtained by Bloomberg—is accurate. 

Now that 95 homes and two large city facilities in Bloomington, IN, have gone solar—installing more than a megawatt of solar in a few months—thanks to Solarize Bloomington’s first phase, it’s launching a second phase. The second phase of the program, which launches in July 2017 and runs through the end of the year,  promises to the reduce the cost of a 4 kilowatt system in the city to $7,000 after incentives, including the 30 percent federal tax credit is included.

Over the past few years, the Energy Information Administration (EIA) has continued to add more data about solar power to its reporting. More recently it’s been adding more data about small-scale solar power like rooftop solar and now it’s added data about small-scale solar power to its short-term energy outlook. 

Last week was an another interesting week for solar. Another study showed that in the very near future solar and wind will become cheaper than other forms of new electric generation like natural gas and coal. At the same time major solar projects are shifting hands. Meanwhile the Roomba is taking to the garden with solar power and is ready to clean up on weeds. 

As part of NRG Energy’s restructuring, the company recently announced its new transformation plan on July 12, under which it could sell off 50 percent to all of its renewable energy generation systems, which include some of the largest solar power plants in the US. The company, under new management, is seeking to raise up to $4 billion in revenue from selling off both conventional and renewable energy assets and reduce its debt by $13 billion to appease investors. 

India has ambitious renewable energy plans and a new study shows that it could integrate 175 gigawatts of renewable energy by 2022, including 100 GWs of solar power and 60 GWs of wind power,  serving 22 percent of the country’s energy needs. That’s according to a new study from the Department of Energy's National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), which determined the economic viability of India’s plans. 

SolarWorld Americas has received $6 million as part of a larger, double-digit-million dollar cash infusion to continue operations through 2017 and beyond. The company—whose parent SolarWorld AG—filed for insolvency in Germany earlier this year is continuing to operate and employ people at its plant in Hillsborough, OR, outside of those proceedings.

Earlier this week Colorado became the latest state to join the US Climate Alliance, a group of states that have committed to reducing their emissions in line with the Paris Climate Agreement. Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper (D) signed an executive order that commits the state to reducing its greenhouse gas emissions by more than 26 percent from 2005 levels by 2025.

A new report out from Morgan Stanley anticipated that renewable energy will be the least expensive form of new energy by 2020 across the globe. Moreover, the low-costs of renewable energy will drive renewable energy growth and carbon reduction—not government policies, the bank found.