ORIGINAL REPORTING: How utility-solar collaborations are helping solar grow

Defying the usual headlines: How utility-solar collaborations are helping solar grow; 5 utilities, solar businesses and individuals received awards from SEPA for advancing solar

Herman K. Trabish, October 15, 2015 (Utility Dive)

Defying the many headlines about utilities and solar advocates often being at odds, representatives of both industries cheered each other at the Solar Power Players Awards luncheon during Solar Power International 2015 (SPI)…

Carmine Tilghman, the senior director of energy supply at Tucson Electric Power (TEP) Senior Director of Energy Supply. Tilghman was awarded the Solar Electric Power Association (SEPA) Solar Champion for 2015… for a career-long effort in solar but especially for the Arizona Science & Technology Park Solar Zone, which tests utility-scale solar generation technologies and for his leadership of TEP’s innovative residential rooftop solar program…

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Consolidated Edison's (Con Ed) initiative to integrate solar onto the New York City grid won the company the Investor-Owned Utility of the Year award from SEPA…The Electric Cooperatives of South Carolina (ECSC) and Central Electric Power Cooperative (CEPC), their generation and transmission (G&T) provider, were named the electric cooperative of the year award for their collaborative two year effort to write and see through the Distributed Energy Resources Act of 2014 (Act 236), South Carolina’s first solar legislation

The New York Power Authority (NYPA) received its award for deploying the $1 billion NY-SUN public-private initiative headed up by the New York Energy Research and Development Authority (NYSERDA)…Inverter manufacturer Enphase Energy won the SEPA's “Partner of the Year” award for its work with the Hawaiian Electric Company to grow residential rooftop solar… click here for more

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