Summit Ridge Energy has committed to purchase 800 MW of additional solar panels from Qcells to support the organization’s development pipeline. The agreement builds on an existing 1.2 GW relationship between the companies, which say the purchase will allow Summit Ridge to develop 100 additional community solar projects across the U.S. The majority of these […]
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Recurrent Energy has secured $513 million in project financing for its 1,200 MWh Papago Storage project, located in Maricopa County, Ariz. Project construction is slated to commence later this year, with commercial operations expected to begin in 2025. The project holds a 20-year tolling agreement with Arizona Public Service Company. Following construction, Recurrent Energy will […]
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Despite last year’s surge of $1.8 trillion in clean energy investments worldwide, investment remains below what is needed to meet the COP28 target of tripling renewable capacity by 2030, according to the latest EY Renewable Energy Country Attractiveness Index (RECAI). This edition of RECAI focuses on BESS. According to the report, the U.S., bolstered by […]
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Nextracker and Unimacts have jointly announced plans for a new factory in the Las Vegas area. This would be the second Nextracker-dedicated manufacturing line that Unimacts has opened in the last year, with their 160,000 square-foot facility in Sloan, Nev., producing steel torque tubes used to hold and rotate PV panels in solar power plants. […]
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Vesper Energy has sold two PJM assets, Gaucho Solar and Nestlewood Solar, to Octopus Energy Generation. The Nestlewood Solar project is located on 610 acres in Clermont and Brown counties, Ohio, and offsets power for a Fortune 100 company as part of a PPA. The Gaucho Solar project is located on 68 acres in Beaver […]
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The Department of Defense (DoD) has partnered with Duke Energy to power five military installations in North and South Carolina with carbon-free electricity. As part of this agreement, DoD will be the exclusive purchaser of all output generated by two new solar facilities in South Carolina. “This is a significant step forward,” says DoD’s Brendan Owens. […]
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Maxeon Solar Technologies has initiated a patent infringement lawsuit in the Düsseldorf Local Division of the Court of First Instance of Unified Patent Court (UPC) against Aiko Energy Germany, Solarlab Aiko Europe, Aiko Energy Netherlands and several of Aiko’s European partners. Partners include Memodo, Libra, VDH, PowerDeal and Coenergia. The suit alleges infringement of a […]
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SolarEdge Technologies unveiled at Intersolar 2024 its next-generation, three-phase solar inverter and dedicated home battery for the European residential market, expected to be available in the second half of next year. Hoping to address the growing segment of larger residential solar+storage rooftop installations, the company’s inverter is designed to reach a power class of up […]
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GAF Energy is set to build a new solar roofing testing facility, as well as launch a round of building-integrated photovoltaic testing, due in part to a U.S. Department of Energy investment. GAF Energy’s Timberline Solar roof features what the company calls the world’s first nailable solar shingle, integrating solar technology into traditional roofing processes […]
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The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) is partnering in Colorado to deliver clean energy to rural areas of the state through its Powering Affordable Clean Energy (PACE) program. Selected applications total $81 million in partially forgivable loans from the Inflation Reduction Act, says the department. “Rural communities are the backbone of America, and the Biden-Harris […]
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ComEd says it has interconnected a total of 1 GW of distributed energy resources (DER) capacity to its grid. The 59,000 DER on the ComEd smart grid includes 1,582 commercial systems, 118 community solar farms, 23 industrial and two utility-scale projects, the company says. “Achieving the 1 GW milestone for DER reflects progress with the […]
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Castillo Engineering has been selected as the engineer of record (EOR) for three portfolios of Illinois community solar projects, totaling 56 MW across 14 projects. The portfolios consist of three projects totaling 23 MW with Recon Corp., seven projects totaling 21 MW and four projects totaling 12 MW. These fixed-tilt, bifacial solar module projects will […]
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