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The legislation Assembly Bill 2619 aims to restore incentives for residents who generate clean power for the grid.

Small-scale solar generation grew rapidly from 5,959GWh in 2012 to 61,281GWh in 2022, driven by the rapid uptake of installations on homes.

VNEM incentivises builders to adopt rooftop solar and share the benefits – both financial and environmental – back to renters.

Sunrun has published the results of its Peak Power Rewards system that saw residential systems send power to the California grid for 90 days.

The US solar industry has registered its best third quarter with 6.5GW of PV installed in Q3 2023, however residential started to show a slowdown in certain states.

The solar industry in California “has experienced devastating results in the form of business closures and depression-level layoffs”.

Small-scale utility and community solar developer Renewable Properties has secured a US$25 million development capital investment to continue developing its 1GW US community solar project pipeline.

The California Public Utilities Commission yesterday (16th November) voted to approve a ‘proposed decision’ changing the state’s virtual net energy metering (VNEM) scheme.

Intersect Power has started commercial operations at its Oberon solar and storage project in the US state of California.

Microgrids in the US still face several challenges - speed and standardisation chief among them - in order to help alleviate and decentralise the grid.