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| Sep 19, 2024 | IREC: US adds 15,564 solar jobs in 2023, up 5.9% YoY | |
| Mar 21, 2024 | Milestone decision by Calif. regulators approves DER schedules to avoid interconnection upgrades | Milestone decision by Calif. regulators approves DER schedules to avoid interconnection upgrades
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The California Public Utilities Commission just issued a sign... |
| Feb 12, 2024 | Mind the gap: Building the solar workforce | Mind the gap: Building the solar workforce
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Trainees learn residential solar installation skills on a GRID Alternatives residential solar project.
The so... |
| Mar 2, 2023 | U.S. solar workforce needs to double in less than a decade | A transition to a carbon-free energy sector is going to take a large, well-trained workforce, and readying that workforce may pose a challenge in the near-term. The Interstate Renewable Energy Council (IREC) said 89% of solar firms reported... |
| Dec 21, 2022 | Bringing Solar Energy To A Whole New Level Is Vital But Do We Have A Workforce Qualified To See It Through? | David Thompson, Tech Times 21 December 2022, 05:12 am
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It's no secret that the need for solar energy is increasing rapidly. And coupled directly with that need is the necessity to utilize modern technology and software to... |
| Nov 15, 2022 | Amazon launches solar technician training course | Amazon announced it will offer pre-paid scholarships for its employees to take a solar technician training course run by StrataTech Education Group.
The Refrigeration School, Inc. (RSI) will teach the courses that will focus on PV science, ... |
| Aug 16, 2022 | Bringing Solar Energy To A Whole New Level Is Vital But Do We Have A Workforce Qualified To See It Through? | David Thompson, Tech Times 16 August 2022, 05:08 am
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It's no secret that the need for solar energy is increasing rapidly. And coupled directly with that need is the necessity to utilize modern technology and software to e... |
| Aug 1, 2022 | Nearly all smart inverter manufacturers will be delivering smart inverters within a year | States that require smart inverters for new rooftop solar can enable more rooftop installations, because smart inverters can stabilize voltage on a distribution circuit. And because smart inverters can receive communications, an aggregation... |
| Mar 17, 2022 | Ten Chicago-area communities just made it easier to go solar | Ten Chicago-area communities just made it easier to go solar
By Chris Crowell March 17, 2022 View Profile
Ten Chicago-area communities are easing their solar interconnection processes, making it faster, easier, and more affordable for homes... |
| Oct 4, 2021 | Interconnecting solar to the grid: An aggressively opaque process | A pair of newly released documents reveal how the work of renewable energy developers has brought about major improvements to the accessibility and quality of publicly available power grid data.
The documents also show that renewable projec... |
| Jun 7, 2021 | We need interconnection reform to unlock the benefits of energy storage | It’s widely recognized that one of the greatest challenges in transitioning from an electric grid powered predominantly by fossil fuels to one powered by clean energy sources like solar and wind is the intermittency of many renewables.
Ener... |
| May 20, 2021 | New IREC program will get building, safety officials up to speed on solar technology | The Interstate Renewable Energy Council (IREC) launched a three-year, $2.1 million project, funded by the U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE), to reduce barriers to widespread adoption of dist... |
| May 12, 2021 | Interconnection is broken: Radical rethinking is needed to achieve clean energy goals | Significant progress has been made to decarbonize U.S. electricity, largely driven by impressive renewable energy growth. But one critical issue, left unaddressed, will almost certainly derail ambitious climate and clean energy goals: inter... |
| Apr 6, 2021 | California’s Volt-Watt consumer protection — what installers need to know | High levels of renewable energy will be critical to meeting climate goals and creating a clean and sustainable economy, yet there are challenges to incorporating these energy sources on the electric grid. Fortunately, smart inverters have a... |
| Jan 28, 2021 | Minnesota PUC fined Xcel Energy $1 million for interconnection delays and two solar companies are to thank | Minnesota PUC fined Xcel Energy $1 million for interconnection delays and two solar companies are to thank
By Chris Crowell January 28, 2021 View Profile
The Minnesota Public Utilities Commission fined Xcel Energy $1 million for exceeding a... |
| Nov 19, 2020 | FERC Order 841 mattered, but state interconnection rules | FERC Order 841 mattered, but state interconnection rules
By Gwen Brown November 19, 2020 View Profile
It was big news this summer when a federal appeals court upheld Order 841 of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission. FERC Order 841 clar... |
| Nov 12, 2020 | Morning Brief: Biden’s energy transition team, BlackRock CEO backs mandatory climate reporting | U.S. President-elect Joe Biden names members of energy transition team:
Arun Majumdar, team lead, is founding director of ARPA-E and has been mentioned as a potential candidate for Secretary of Energy.
Jonathan Elkind of Columbia University... |
| Sep 25, 2020 | Morning Brief: California modernizes its distributed energy interconnection rules, Pine Gate launches wave of Michigan solar | California adopts first interconnection rules to utilize hosting capacity results: The California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) issued sweeping changes to Rule 21, the rules under which distributed energy resources, like solar power an... |
| Aug 19, 2020 | Win for clean energy: Minnesota PUC orders Xcel to provide more detail in HCA report | Win for clean energy: Minnesota PUC orders Xcel to provide more detail in HCA report
By Chris Crowell August 19, 2020 View Profile
Two weeks ago, the Minnesota Public Utilities Commission ordered Xcel to make several changes to its 2020 Hos... |
| May 7, 2020 | IREC publishes a slick playbook for evaluating grid modernization plans | IREC publishes a slick playbook for evaluating grid modernization plans
By Chris Crowell May 7, 2020 View Profile
Grid modernization is a cool thing to say and support, but it is also a nebulous term, which makes it difficult to implement. ... |
| Apr 8, 2020 | States expand rooftop solar potential with smart inverter rollout | Maryland is following Hawaii, California and Minnesota in setting smart inverter rules for distributed solar and storage.
Smart inverters enable more rooftop solar on the grid. Here’s why: although adding rooftop solar with ordinary inverte... |
| Mar 17, 2020 | Clean energy leaders discuss a 100 percent clean energy future at IREC Vision Summit | The Training-to-Jobs Pipelines for Diversity and Inclusion panel at the 2020 IREC Vision Summit. Panelists included (from left to right) Laure-Jeanne Davignon, IREC Vice President-Workforce Development (moderator); Staci Hoell, Workforce De... |
| Jan 29, 2020 | IREC grades all state community solar programs and only gives two A’s | IREC grades all state community solar programs and only gives two A’s
By Chris Crowell January 29, 2020 View Profile
Shared solar programs or community solar programs continue to grow in popularity as a compelling model to increase access t... |
| Dec 19, 2019 | Minnesota first state to integrate potential national distributed energy interconnection standard | Minnesota has updated its distributed generation interconnection requirements to include hardware specifications being developed for a potential national standard. (That would be IEEE Standard 1547™-2018 for Interconnection and Interoperabi... |
| Feb 1, 2019 | pvMB 2/1/2019: Tesla CFO replaced, LaFleur to resign at FERC, GameChange hits 4 GW in sales, and more… | Tesla CFO replacement – As revealed early this morning in an 8-K: “Tesla intends to appoint Zachary Kirkhorn, Tesla’s current Vice President, Finance, Financial Planning and Business Operations, to replace Mr. Ahuja as Tesla’s Chief Financi... |
| Jan 22, 2019 | IREC recognizes these four states for their clean energy policy decisions in 2018 | After a colossal year of energy policy activity across the states, the Interstate Renewable Energy Council (IREC) calls out some favorite 2018 success stories in its 2019 Clean Energy States Honor Roll, announced today. IREC is a 37-year-ol... |
| Apr 2, 2018 | IREC launches new checklist for inspecting residential solar | The Interstate Renewable Energy Council (IREC) has produced an updated Model Inspection Checklist for Residential Rooftop PV. This 15-page document facilitates a process for local inspectors and installers in plan review and field inspectio... |
| Dec 19, 2017 | IREC offers regulatory guide on grid modernization | Up until recently, grid modernization to accommodate high levels of renewable energy was a long-distant goal, the subject of academic discussions and theoretical modeling for some time in the future. As more distributed solar and other reso... |
| Nov 22, 2017 | Maine proposes doubled interconnection fees for solar customers | Interconnecting solar arrays to Central Maine Power’s (CMP) grid could become significantly more expensive if a proposed rule by the Maine’s Public Utilities Commission (MPUC) is codified into law.
The commission is proposing to raise inter... |
| Apr 4, 2016 | IREC launches new tools to help consumers go solar | Along with the growing number of Americans exploring powering their homes from the sun, comes the need to help consumers through the complex process of going solar. Residential rooftop solar grew 66 percent in the U.S. last year. That means... |
| Feb 27, 2013 | Report: Californial Should Remove Limits on Net Metered Solar | The debate over net metered solar is getting louder and more spirited, as utilities resist efforts to remove caps on how much energy solar customers can return to their grid. New reports, like the one released below by the Intersta... |
| May 14, 2012 | Improving Tomorrow’s Installers | Improving Tomorrow’s Installers
By Kelly Pickerel May 14, 2012 View Profile
Krannich Solar offers industry-approved training courses to newbies and veterans looking to learn the right way to build the U.S. solar industry.
Mark Loeser had se... |
| US solar jobs increased 9% in 2021 – here’s how it breaks down by sector and state | Solar energy jobs were up in 47 states and increased 9% percent across the United States from 2020 to 2021, reaching a total of 255,037 solar workers, reports the independent nonprofit Interstate Renewable Energy Council (IREC).
According t... |
| Why Joe Biden is invoking a war power to build heat pumps and solar panels | It looks like President Joe Biden is done waiting for Congress to do something about the country’s dependence on foreign energy. Through a series of executive actions announced on Monday, the president plans to use the Defense Production Ac... |
