Chesapeake Solar & Storage Association

Project Spotlight: Diamond Properties Diamond Properties sought a solar solution that aligned with their environmental commitments while delivering strong financial returns. Their industrial facility, home to manufacturing tenants, required careful coordination to ensure uninterrupted operations. Aspen Power delivered a turnkey 2.497MW rooftop solar system, maximizing capacity and providing a real-time performance dashboard to track impact. The results included: ? New York’s largest rooftop solar installation at the time, completed in just 5 months ? Zero disruption to manufacturing operations through meticulous planning ? Optimized federal and state incentives for maximum financial benefit ? 2.5 million kWh of clean energy annually, equivalent to charging one billion smartphones Unlock new opportunity in your real estate with solar. Learn more here: https://aspenpower.com/

For more than a decade, Pivot has been recognizing employees who exemplify our company values through the Sun God Award, presented at our monthly company meetings. Anyone at the company can make a nomination through our online suggestion box, sharing how the nominee has leaned into our company values of Impact, Balance, Determination, Professionalism, Honesty, and Kindness. Each month, a Sun God/Goddess is chosen and presented with a statue of Ra, the Egyptian Sun God. This statue adorns their desk for the month before being passed on to the next month’s Sun God. In February, our Sun God was Joshua Kruger! As one of his many nominations summarized it:? "Josh continuously demonstrates professionalism, always balancing assertiveness with tact. He consistently represents Pivot with great intelligence and skill. He is an incredibly smart, thoughtful, and strategic attorney, and his ability to navigate complex legal challenges with both decisiveness and diplomacy has been invaluable to the company." We look forward to continuing to share about our future Sun God awardees, and hope you join us in celebrating them!

We’re excited to announce the official launch of the Low Carbon Fertilizer Alliance—a groundbreaking initiative uniting leading food and beverage brands to reduce emissions in agricultural supply chains. We’re proud to be joined by CF Industries as our founding fertilizer manufacturing partner and Mars as a founding anchor member, alongside other Fortune 200 food companies. Through collective action and aggregated buying power, food and beverage companies can lower supply chain emissions, ensure defensible claims, and achieve cost savings. Learn more at: https://lnkd.in/g6DUfgGT Read the press release: https://lnkd.in/eX5sMMdv

Our team has mapped the locations where demand growth and grid constraints could present the greatest challenges for utilities across the U.S. Explore our Northern Virginia example here and download the full report to explore six recommendations for planners and customer program managers to help their utilities deliver clean, reliable, affordable energy. https://okt.to/3R9xmB

There is still time to register for our upcoming annual Energy Webinar!? ? Join Brad Nowak and Chris McDonald as they provide an overview of this year’s General Assembly session and discuss several important pieces of legislation that were passed that will affect the energy industry in Virginia.? ? Click here to learn more and register: https://lnkd.in/eR4J8hau #energy #virginia #generalassembly

As the nation’s largest community solar provider, Nexamp is setting records—securing 1.5 GW of American-made solar modules from Heliene, the largest community solar module order in history. On the latest episode of #TheGreenLight podcast, host & Dylan Green founder Catherine McLean speaks with Nexamp’s Juan Parra who shares insights on the company's latest milestone as well as strategies for community engagement. He also discusses his journey from environmental justice advocacy with WE ACT for Environmental Justice to a leadership role in community solar. Plus, we dive into Nexamp’s Solar Sunrise program, which is creating new career pathways in clean energy. Listen to the full episode: ? Apple Podcasts: https://lnkd.in/enQykuST ? Spotify: https://lnkd.in/eNbxUVT9 ? YouTube: https://lnkd.in/eCvV2h8P ? Dylan Green website: https://lnkd.in/ehJYdfAR #ad #sponsored #podcast #cleanenergy #cleanenergyjobs #climatetechjobs #communitysolar #environmentaljustice

Construction is moving forward in New Hartford, New York on the New Paris Road Community Solar Farm! Each step brings us closer to delivering sustainable energy to the community, and we anticipate the facility will be operational by this summer. Read full blog post here: https://lnkd.in/eSUgd9Bk

Join us for a free webinar on March 31 at 11AM ET surveying Virginia’s place in the new global energy race, taking stock of promising agrivoltaics harvests all around the world, and looking ahead to the robust program coming to the 2025 Virginia Solar Summit! If you feel disoriented by the recent storm of developments and crosswinds of news, you won’t want to miss this guided tour with VSS Executive Producer Dan French walking through his current view of the macro dynamics making waves in global energy markets and giving a sweeping world tour of breakthrough farming + solar projects boosting agriculture in Europe, China, Japan, and, increasingly, the U.S. >> https://lnkd.in/gEY7gite Beyond producing electricity, solar can do more. A lot more. When developed with agriculture or conservation in mind, solar can do things otherwise hard or impossible to achieve. Solar can save farms, start farms, diversify production, preserve and protect land, create habitat and enhance biodiversity, and revitalize rural communities. It already is, here and there, but agrivoltaics is ready to scale to new heights of productivity without having to make hard land use compromises. Virginia needs all the energy it can get, but it needs the broad cornucopia of homegrown benefits that agrivoltaics can cultivate in fields all across the region just as much, if not more. After all, solar ‘pays where it lays’ and benefits local economies in ways baseload power cannot. And as pure agricultural value-add, agrivoltaics provides another order of local opportunity entirely. A French vineyard in Tresserre this fall, for example, harvested +60% more chardonnay grapes of better quality with less irrigation in its solar tracking trellis–consistent with similar recent results achieving more and better quality grapes under solar panels in Italy. Join us March 31 to see what the global buzz on both ends of the energy business is all about, and an exclusive first-look at ongoing research monitoring the incredible breakthroughs being achieved in the nexus of agriculture and energy all over the world! Webinar registration is FREE on Eventbrite here >> https://lnkd.in/gEY7gite Visit the Virginia Solar Summit website to learn more and registration for VSS25 returning to the magnificent Marriott Richmond April 28-30 here >> https://lnkd.in/gwzTkTy #solar #agriculture #energy #farm #farming #solarfarming #agrivoltaics #webinar #virginia

Sol Systems and Google are doubling down on our commitment to clean energy access and community impact. With an additional $1.6M, we're expanding our partnership to reduce energy costs and create new opportunities in underserved communities across North and South Carolina. ? ?? Direct investment in community organizations tackling critical home repairs and provide essential services? ??? Energy-efficient upgrades lowering costs for low-income households Thank you to our partners at Roanoke Cooperative, Santee Electric Cooperative, Aiken Electric Cooperative, Inc., and The Sustainability Institute of South Carolina for making this impact possible!? At the heart of this effort are the local organizations driving real change—and we’re proud to support them. Learn More: https://lnkd.in/efgVuQs6