Someone in California will win a 3.9 kilowatt SunPower solar rooftop array this year valued at nearly $9,000, thanks to SunPower by Quality Home Services. The company is holding a random drawing and people can register through Nov. 1. It’s the third year the company is giving away a solar array.

Casinos bring in a lot of green and now MGM resorts is making more by investing in clean energy and the environment. The company released its annual corporate social responsibility report (CSR) this week, in which it also outlined its most recent sustainability efforts, like the completion of an 8.3 megawatt solar rooftop. 

Earlier this month DNV GL introduced the third version of its PV Module Reliability Scorecard 2017 with several newcomers, among them SunPower and SolarWorld, achieving high-performing scores in the report. Participation in the voluntary program, subjects solar panels to a torture test designed to simulate real-world conditions, jumped by 69 percent over last year.

Minnesota Power announced its EnergyForward plans to transition to 44 percent renewable energy by 2025 using solar, wind and natural gas. The utility would add a total of 510 megawatts of renewable and natural gas between now and 2025 under a new filing with the Minnesota Public Utilities Commission (MPUC).

Last week it came to light that the world installed a record 161 gigawatts of renewable—for 23 percent less than it did in the previous year. that comes as more in the US are pushing back against President Donald Trump’s decision to exit from the Paris Agreement on climate change.

Last year the world saw 161 gigawatts of new renewable energy installed, almost 9 percent more than was installed in 2015, raising the amount of renewable energy online across the world to 2,017 gigawatts. At the same time the the amount invested in the new renewable energy fell 23 percent to to $241.6 billion, according to Renewable Energy Policy Network for the 21th Century’s (REN21’s) Renewables 2017 Global Status Report (GSR), which published on Thursday.

The controversial decision by President Donald Trump (R) to remove the US from the international Paris Agreement on climate change is having more interesting repercussions as much of the country expresses support for the agreement. Earlier this week over 1,200 signatories—from governors and mayors of states and cities to leading businesses like Google, Apple and Microsoft publicly declared their intent to adhere to the Paris Agreement and have issued an open letter to the international community and created WeAreStillIn.com to show their support of the agreement. 

South Carolina residents and others will have a chance to go solar without putting it on their roofs, thanks to a new 16 megawatt portfolio of community solar projects being built by Clean Energy Collective (CEC) for SCE&G customers. The first two of three solar power projects CEC is developing will come online by the end of 2017.

In the first quarter of 2017 the US installed a total of 2,044 megawatts of solar power as the cost of solar power fell below $1 a watt for the first time. That’s according to the latest U.S. Solar Market Insight Report from GTM Research and the Solar Energy Industries Association SEIA, which found growth was driven primarily by utility-scale sized installations.

The little islands way out West of mainland US are leading the way on climate change. The state is currently the only one with a 100 percent renewable energy portfolio and now it’s become the first state in the nation to sign aspects of the accord into law as Gov. David Ige (D) signed two bills into law.