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NATIONAL NEWS
Florida Regulators Give Utility the Go-Ahead to Buy Solar Energy
The Florida Public Service Commission approved Tampa Electric Company’s proposal to buy solar energy from a 25-megawatt plant in Polk County.
SunEdison, Xcel Announce Solar Project
North America’s largest solar energy services provider and a Western utility are planning to install five photovoltaic solar facilities in southeastern New Mexico.
Can First Solar Keep UP with the Chinese?
Last week, solar industry bellwether First Solar held a meeting with analysts and investors at the Westin New York during which First Solar management presented its spin on growth for 2010.
Florida Developments Suggest Improving Environment for PV
Despite the approval of a solar PV deal in Tampa, Fla., PV and other alternatives still have a pricing disadvantage.
World’s Largest Solar Project Prompts Environmental Debate
Panoche Valley is known mostly for cattle and barbed wire, a treeless landscape in eastern San Benito County that turns green every spring but for much of the year looks like rural Nevada.
UTILITY INDUSTRY & REGULATORY NEWS
Ratepayer Power: Sunshine for a Cloudy 2010
LADWP is contemplating an 18% and 10% increase in the Base Rates for power and water in 2011.
Grant PUD Approves Annual 4% Rate Increases
For some residential customers, the hike likely means their electric bills will be $2 more per month, to bring an extra $4 million to the district, according to the PUD.
MARKETS & MARKET RESEARCH
Solar Tariffs: Outlook for 2010
A look at data recently put together by Navigant Consulting, of Chicago, can help investors understand the tariff situation, and what it means for solar companies, heading into 2010.
Feed-in Tariff 2.0
Just months after starting, a more lucrative version of Ontario’s feed-in tariff program has attracted thousands of renewable energy investors, additional evidence that this particular policy lever, pioneered in Germany, can stimulate rapid growth in decentralized green power resources.
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