Summit Ridge Energy and Black Bear Energy says construction has commenced on four industrial solar projects in Maryland. The sites, in Belcamp and Rosedale, total over 17 MW of rooftop-hosted solar that will be part of the Maryland Community Solar program. Developed and owned by SRE and facilitated by Black Bear, these sites will generate […]
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ForeFront Power, a developer and asset manager of commercial and industrial solar energy and battery storage projects, and investor HASI have entered into a follow-on equity investment for a portfolio of distributed solar and solar-plus-storage projects located across California. The transaction builds upon an initial co-sponsor equity investment for a separate U.S. distributed solar portfolio […]
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Genie Solar Energy, a developer of commercial and community solar projects, has broken ground on the construction of a 4 MW community solar array in Perry, NY. The project will comprise approximately 9,000 panels. With a projected annual production of over 5,000 MWh, it will generate electricity sufficient to power over 440 homes while offsetting […]
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Ascent Solar Technologies Inc., a developer of CIGS thin-film photovoltaic solutions, has completed a transaction to acquire the Zurich-based manufacturing assets of thin-film solar manufacturer Flisom AG. Ascent says it will continue to be headquartered in Thornton, Colo., and commence manufacturing using its new 15 MW roll-to-roll thin-film manufacturing assets in Zurich immediately. Ascent will […]
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The Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA) says more than 400 companies from across the solar value chain sent a letter to Congress warning against H.J.Res 39, which would repeal President Joe Biden’s solar tariff moratorium. On Wednesday, the House Ways and Means Committee approved the measure, which will move to the House floor. “The Ways […]
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The Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA) says more than 400 companies from across the solar value chain have sent a letter to Congress warning against H.J.Res 39, which would repeal President Joe Biden’s solar tariff moratorium. President Biden issued an executive action last June to pause new solar tariffs for two years in response to […]
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The Virginia State Corporation Commission (SCC) has approved nearly two dozen new solar and energy storage projects to help meet the growing needs of Dominion Energy Virginia customers. Once in operation, the projects will generate more than 800 MW of electricity, enough to power about 200,000 Virginia homes at peak output. “This is another big […]
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Duke Energy has completed two solar projects in Alachua and Suwannee counties in Florida, the latest sites in the company’s community solar program portfolio, Clean Energy Connection. The High Springs Renewable Energy Center is built on 700 acres in Alachua County. The 74.9 MW facility consists of approximately 216,000 single-axis tracking solar panels. The Hildreth […]
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Ameren Missouri has received approval from the Missouri Public Service Commission (MoPSC) to acquire, upon completion, a 150 MW solar facility in White County, Ill. The solar facility will also be used to support the Renewable Solutions program, which also received MoPSC approval. Ten organizations from across Missouri are the initial participants in the program, […]
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Greenwood Sustainable Infrastructure (GSI), the North American renewable energy subsidiary of Libra Group, is acquiring the solar and battery development portfolios of Saturn Power, including its team of developers and a 1.4 GW pipeline of early- to late-stage solar and energy storage projects in five U.S. states and two Canadian provinces. GSI says the acquisition […]
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Trina Solar’s tracker solution provider, TrinaTracker, has launched the second generation of its Vanguard 2P tracker, equipped with a new multi-motor control system. The 2P configuration and the fewer-pile design features help reduce BOS costs, especially for harsh soiling and scenarios with higher pile requirements. Vanguard 2P (single-axis two-in-portrait tracker) has been the main product […]
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NEXT Energy Technologies Inc. says it has received $3 million in funding under the California Energy Commission’s Realizing Accelerated Manufacturing and Production for Clean Energy Technologies (RAMP) program, to be applied toward NEXT’s development of a proprietary transparent photovoltaic coating for commercial windows. The specific purpose of NEXT’s agreement is to fund the scale-up of […]
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