Crews prep to install solar panels on Music City Center roofs

Posted Jan 29, 2013, 5:14 p.m. CST in the Nashville Business Journal by Eric Snyder, Managing Editor Crews are currently preparing to install solar panels on the roof of Music City Center, the city's largest solar installation, according to a news release. On Monday, crews hoisted…

TVA reopens applications for solar installations, briefly

WPLN News | August 5, 2013 The Tennessee Valley Authority has once again cut off applications for homes and small businesses wanting to add solar panels and sell power back to the utility.  TVA opened up the pipeline for hopefuls last week, and within hours got more than enough to…

TVA solar buyback program reaches its cap

Written by G. Chambers Williams III, The Tennessean May 3, 2013   The solar energy boom in Tennessee is about to go bust, according to some of the state’s solar-power system installers, a fate they blame on the region’s federally owned electric utility, the Tennessee Valley…

Solar company criticizes TVA power purchase program

By Thomas Bailey Jr. Wednesday, May 1, 2013   A Nashville-based company that designs and installs solar-power systems claims TVA is hurting the fledgling industry by the way it administers its solar-incentive program.   LightWave Solar, which recently opened a Memphis office at 6349 Summer, says much of the solar-power…

Solar panels gain popularity as price drops

Posted: February, 24 2013 in the Tennessean by Bill Lewis. Mark and Bonnie Miller-McLemore bought a Nissan Leaf to reduce their environmental footprint, but the idea of recharging the all-electric vehicle with energy produced at nuclear or coal-fired power plants seemed self-defeating. Their solution: The couple…

Falling silicon prices hurt Hemlock, but help solar installers

Posted Jan 15, 2013 in the Nashville Business Journal by Jamie McGee While the oversupply and price decline of polysilicon has hurt the prospects of Hemlock Semiconductor, it has helped those companies further along on the solar supply chain. Steve Johnson, president of solar panel design…