Solar and Renewable Energy News

Under a new partnership between PowerOptions and SunEdison, nonprofits—including hospitals, schools and universities—and governments will have access to low-cost solar through power-purchase agreements or net-metering arrangements.

Under the agreement, customers of PowerOptions, an energy buying consortium, will have access to solar with no upfront costs through agreements with SunEdison.

China’s largest offshore oil company is taking a majority stake in a solar developer to build solar plants across Asia.

As solar becomes more of a household term for energy, the multitude of uses is continuing to grow, too, from photovoltaics to solar hot water, to concentrated solar power (CSP)—it’s even being used in fracking applications. But now it’s being used to boost the generation capacity of an existing fossil-fuel-powered generating plant for Tucson Electric Power.

The 156-megawatt H. Wilson Sundt Generating Station in Tucson will get a 5-megawatt boost from the Sundt Solar Boost Project.

On Feb. 09, Colorado’s solar industry puts all its chips on the table.

The 2012 Solar Power Colorado conference and expo, hosted by the Colorado Solar Energy Industries Association, gets underway next week at the Embassy Suites Conference Center in Loveland, Colo. And there are a few notable changes from last year’s event, which had sold out nearly a week before the doors opened.

I continue to be surprised by the bad and shallow analysis of renewable energy subsidies done by the mainstream media.