Sunnova Logs Q2 Loss But Outlines Big-Time Customer Growth
Sunnova finished its first quarter as a public company with a net loss grazing $50 million, which the company attributed to several factors including $1.3 million in initial public offering-related costs and $11.6 million in...
How grid operators forecast weather and output from renewables
RTOs and ISOs told Utility Dive their top challenges and initiatives when it comes to forecasting output from intermittent resources....
USDA: U.S. corn, soybean ratings both down 1%
The USDA’s condition ratings for corn and soybeans dipped slightly last week. After a too wet start to the planting season, development conditions have turned too dry in some key U.S. growing areas. As of Sunday, 95%...
Solar News
Wisconsin governor orders 100% carbon free by 2050, despite lack of legislative support
Gov. Tony Evers, D, signed an executive order on Friday after being unable to pass more aggressive energy policy through the state's budget....
The Energy Transition in 4 Charts
There is little debate that the energy transition is underway. However, the speed at which it is happening is very much in flux. Wood Mackenzie recently compiled some of its latest power and renewables forecasts...
Elon Musk’s Latest Plan for the Solar Market: Rentals
Tesla will now rent solar systems to customers in six states for $50 a month, in a scheme to boost residential solar deployments after it logged its lowest quarterly installations ever in Q2. In a...
Bankruptcy judge maintains PG&E exclusivity and allows Tubbs fire victims to sue
Allowing Pacific Gas & Electric's creditors to put forth competing plans ahead of the utility's reorganization plan would not help wildfire victims, the judge ruled....
New CPUC efficiency goals are equivalent to reducing 658,000 cars-worth of GHGs
California's revised targets reflect declining potential in energy efficiency savings from utility rebate programs, due to lighting improvement savings....
Agriculture News
Two groups sue over EPA dicamba approval, again
For a second time, two groups have filed a lawsuit against the EPA and its approval of XtendiMax, Monsanto’s dicamba herbicide. The National Family Farm Coalition and the Center for Food Safety sued the EPA’s approval of XtendiMax...
Brief filed in two groups’ suit over EPA dicamba approval
STORY Correction: This is the same suit filed earlier this year, not a new lawsuit as previously reported – JH The lawyers for two groups who filed a lawsuit against the EPA and its approval of XtendiMax,...
ACE CEO says ‘it’s time to get angry’
ACE CEO Brian Jennings The CEO of the American Coalition for Ethanol (ACE), Brian Jennings, says it’s “time to get angry” over the Trump Administration’s RFS waivers. “Had the 2016 presidential election turned out differently, and had...
China top weekly buyer of U.S. pork
The USDA says China bought U.S. ag goods during the week ending August 8th, but also canceled on some previously purchased commodities. This activity all occurred during a week in which tariff tensions between the U.S. and China flared...
Senate continues working to restrict Trump’s tariff powers
The Senate might bring a compromise bill limiting President Trump’s tariff powers to the floor this fall. There are two similar bills that would restrict the President’s use of Section 232 national security tariffs including steel and aluminum tariffs. A Senate...
