Solar Power Dipped Along Great American Solar Eclipse Path SPACE, August 24, 2017 As the solar eclipse moved from coast to coast, solar-energy generation dropped. The map shows the hottest zones — in dark orange — fading to nothingness as the moon covers the sun overhead, and then slowly coming back as the eclipse concludes. The […]
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Grid Operators Manage Swings in Solar Generation During the Eclipse
Grid Operators Manage Solar Eclipse RTO Insider, August 21, 2017 CAISO and other electric grid operators across the country managed large and rapid swings in solar generation output Monday during the first continent-wide total solar eclipse in nearly a century. ISOs and RTOs were well prepared for the event, especially in solar-heavy California where the […]
Baltimore Ravens Reduce Their Carbon Impact with New Solar Project
Baltimore Ravens to install solar system that will meet 15% of electricity needs Solar Power World, July 28, 2015. Image credit: Vox Efx Constellation and the Baltimore Ravens announced an agreement to construct a 375-kWdc solar generation project at the team’s headquarters and training facility in Owings Mills, Md. Constellation, a longtime sponsor of the Baltimore […]