Lafayette Square and Invenergy have launched Reactivate, a community solar energy platform supporting renewable energy development in local communities. Reactivate seeks to create positive social and environmental impact by investing in innovative projects and collaborating with local partners to deliver renewable energy benefits to underserved people and places. As part of the joint venture, Lafayette […]

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Andersen Corp. has invested in Ubiquitous Energy, a transparent photovoltaic technology company that converts light into electricity using semiconductor materials while maintaining visible transparency. Ubiquitous Energy’s UE Power technology is a patented and transparent photovoltaic glass coating that harnesses solar power to generate electricity, while remaining almost indistinguishable from traditional windows. The technology provides a […]

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New Energy Equity, a national developer and financier of community and commercial solar projects, has welcomed Ahmar Zaman to its leadership team as CFO. He will be responsible for supporting rapid growth by managing the internal and external finance functions of New Energy and its subsidiaries. Zaman has been involved in the solar industry for […]

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Standard Solar, a company focused on the ownership, operation, funding and development of commercial and community solar assets, has acquired a fully operational 28.5 MW solar project from funds managed by True Green Capital Management. The acquisition is the company’s first in Idaho and one of its largest to date. “We are actively pursuing growth […]

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EDP Renewables (EDPR) is implementing a new operating model reflecting the expansion of its markets worldwide, including the acquisition of Sunseap, as well as the increasing weight of solar and other new technologies such as storage and hydrogen. The renewed operating model will organize EDPR along three regions – Europe and Latin America, North America, […]

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According to the U.S. Energy Information Administration‘s (EIA) Preliminary Monthly Electric Generator Inventory report, 46.1 GW of new utility-scale electric generating capacity will be added to the U.S. power grid in 2022 – and almost half of the capacity additions will be solar. Developers and power plant owners report planned additions to EIA in its […]

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Funds managed by Blackstone Inc.’s Blackstone Infrastructure Partners have entered into a definitive agreement with Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec (CDPQ) and Invenergy for an approximately $3 billion equity investment in Invenergy Renewables Holdings LLC. Blackstone’s investment will provide capital to accelerate Invenergy’s renewables development activities. CDPQ and Invenergy management remain majority owners […]

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Funds managed by Blackstone Inc.’s Blackstone Infrastructure Partners have entered into a definitive agreement with Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec (CDPQ) and Invenergy for an approximately $3 billion equity investment in Invenergy Renewables Holdings LLC. Blackstone’s investment will provide capital to accelerate Invenergy’s renewables development activities. CDPQ and Invenergy management remain majority owners […]

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Modern Energy has invested $30 million into the launch and multi-year deployment of Industrial Sun, an Austin-based utility-scale solar developer. “Modern’s experience developing, aggregating, and marketing assets across multiple technologies and regulatory regimes, along with their track record for building novel development platforms from inception to scale, was important to us in looking for a […]

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Palmetto’s Mapdwell division has mapped the solar potential and energy load profiles of over 107 million rooftops – approximately 75% of all U.S. buildings equating to 81% of the U.S. population – using its proprietary technology. Acquired by Palmetto in April 2021, Mapdwell also licenses this data via application programming interfaces (APIs) to utility companies, […]

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Leeward Renewable Energy has selected McCarthy Building Companies Inc. to serve as the engineering, procurement and construction contractor for its Rabbitbrush Solar project – a 100 MW facility that also includes a 20 MW, 50 MWh battery energy storage system. The project will consist of more than 415,000 First Solar thin-film photovoltaic modules. With the […]

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Canadian Solar Inc.’s wholly owned subsidiary, Recurrent Energy LLC, has completed a purchase and sale agreement with Appalachian Power for Recurrent’s Firefly Energy solar project, located in Pittsylvania County, Va. With a capacity of 150 MW AC, the Firefly project will be Appalachian Power’s largest solar energy acquisition to date and will help the utility […]

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