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Lightsource BP’s 70MW solar project is coming online in mid-2020, Glidepath’s Carl Jackson, who also serves as director of utility-scale solar initiatives at Penn State, that more and larger solar installations in Pennsylvania will follow.

Pennsylvania policy supporting solar energy would help the Commonwealth catch up with other states and would improve Pennsylvania farmers’ long-term economic prospects as well.

Attendees at a clean energy expo at Penn State Brandywine learned about Pennsylvania Senate Bill 630, the Renewable Energy Bill. It and its identical version in the State House, HB1425, would require Pennsylvania to transition to 100 percent renewable energy by 2050.

Solar energy sites can be planted and managed to provide valuable bee and pollinator habitats. This improves the productivity of the farms all around the solar farm, and helps keep farmers on their land.

A new report commissioned by Community Energy, Inc. finds that transitioning 10 percent of Pennsylvania’s electric generation to solar would decrease the state’s wholesale electric costs by $619 million annually, while costing less than half that amount to make the transition, and would lower wholesale electric prices across the multi-state utility power grid, PJM Interconnection, by $3 billion annually.

Representatives of 19 Montgomery County municipalities attended the Montco 100% Clean Energy Conference to share ideas about how the 10 governing bodies that adopted a Ready for 100 Renewable Energy resolution could collaborate in implementing cost-sharing initiatives in terms of migrating municipal operations to green energy.