Federal Policy

CRES Pens Letter to Congress Seeking Clean Energy Stimulus

To preserve and grow the U.S. workforce and economy following the devastating impact of COVID-19, Citizens for Responsible Energy Solutions (CRES) has delivered to...

U.S. Senators Address Letter to Secretary of the Treasury

Six U.S. Senators have written a letter addressed to Secretary of the Treasury Steven Mnuchin seeking to extend safe harbor provisions provided under existing...

COVID-19 Decimating Clean Energy Jobs

More than 106,000 clean energy workers lost their jobs in the month of March, and hundreds of thousands more clean energy job losses are...

Greenhouse Gas Emissions Fall Despite Growing Economy

Since 2005, national greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions have fallen by 10%, and power sector emissions have fallen by 27% - even as our economy...

DOE Allots Funds to Train Emergency Response, Building Professionals

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has allotted $4.5 million in funding to training programs for professionals who interact with distributed energy resources, including...

Clean Energy Sector Sends Letter to Congress Seeking COVID-19 Relief

In a letter delivered to U.S. House and Senate leadership, the clean energy sector has called for the prompt repair and extension of critically...

SEIA Delivers Letter to Trump Administration

The Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA) has delivered a letter to the Trump Administration signed by more than 140 solar companies across the country,...

NREL Research Improves Perovskite Stability, Strengthens Silicon Cells

A change in chemical composition has enabled scientists to boost the longevity and efficiency of a perovskite solar cell developed at the U.S. Department...

DOE Pledges $125.5 Million for Solar Technologies

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has pledged up to $125.5 million in new funding to advance solar technology research.  Through the Office of Energy...

Utility-Scale Solar: Inside Trump’s NEPA Overhaul

On January 10, 2020, the Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ) published a proposal to comprehensively overhaul regulations adopted over 40 years ago to implement...

Solar ITC Extension Fails to Make it Into Extenders Package

The House mobilized this week to pass legislation that would avert a government shutdown, but that legislation did not include an extension of the...

Senate Confirms Brouillette As Next Energy Secretary

The U.S. Senate has confirmed Dan Brouillette to be the 15th U.S. Secretary of Energy, taking the place of Rick Perry, who recently resigned...

Five-Year Solar ITC Extension Included in Tax Package

The U.S. House Ways and Means Committee has released a clean energy tax package that includes a five-year extension of the 30% solar Investment...

More Than 70 Organizations Band Together In Support Of ITC Extension

The Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA) has announced that dozens of associations representing a broad array of interests are calling for an extension of...

Hundreds Of Mayors Call On Congress To Extend Solar ITC

Today, a bipartisan group of 231 mayors sent a letter to Congress, urging legislators to pass the Renewable Energy Extension Act (H.R.3961/S.2289), which would...

Rick Perry Resigning As DOE Secretary

Rick Perry, secretary of the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), has informed President Donald Trump that he will resign from his position, effective later...
energy storage

FERC OKs First Compliance Filings On New Storage Rule

The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) has approved the first two orders implementing Order No. 841, a rulemaking aimed at breaking down market barriers...
renewable energy

ACORE: Considerations For Designing A Federal, High-Penetration Renewable Energy Standard

In a new white paper released by the nonprofit American Council on Renewable Energy (ACORE) and law firm Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, the organizations offer...

A Refresher On Current Solar Tax Incentives: It’s Important To Act Fast

For several years, certain federal, state and local tax incentives have been available to promote, among other things, the importance of renewable energy, like...

Bye-Bye, Bifacial

The Office of the U.S. Trade Representative last week announced that it is eliminating the exclusion of bifacial solar panels from the 25% tariff...

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