The rural community of Castañer, Puerto Rico celebrated the first phase of a solar-plus-storage microgrid installation that will provide continuous and reliable electricity to power local businesses and essential services. The microgrid was developed in a collaborative process led by the Puerto Rican Solar Business Accelerator (PRSBA), along with the nonprofit Cooperativa Hidroeléctrica de la […]

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Iberdrola USA (Avangrid) has released its investment plan for New York’s energy market. According to the plan, investments could reach close to $6 billion over the next three years. This framework will accelerate the investments needed to continue to improve service and drive a grid that is more resilient to extreme weather events, and smarter […]

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Borqs Technologies Inc. has received strategic funding of $16 million for growth of its solar plus energy storage business in the markets outside of Hawaii, particularly in California. The majority of this financing is led by TDR Capital Pty Ltd., a private equity fund in Australia that focuses on emerging companies in various industries including […]

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Greenbacker Development Opportunities Fund I LP, which provides flexible capital and technical guidance for growth-stage clean energy companies, has made an investment in Sunrock Distributed Generation (Sunrock DG), a financing and asset aggregation platform for commercial and industrial (C&I) solar and energy storage projects across the country. The partnership with Greenbacker will increase Sunrock DG’s […]

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Five Boralex Inc. solar farms totaling 540 MW of generation and 77 MW of storage have been selected by the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority (NYSERDA) as part of its 2021 solicitation for utility-scale renewable energy certificates. Once constructed, the solar farms will generate more than 1 TWh of solar electricity annually, […]

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Nautilus Solar Energy LLC, on behalf of its Nautilus US Power Holdco LLC subsidiary, has acquired two community solar portfolios in Maine, with five projects totaling 26.2 MW from BNRG Maine LLC (d/b/a BNRG Dirigo). The projects, located in Cumberland, Kennebec and Penobscot counties, are in various stages of development, with the first projects expected […]

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Renewable Properties and United Renewable Energy LLC (URE) have commenced construction on three North Carolina projects totaling 20 MW. Renewable Properties will finance and own the projects and has selected URE to complete the engineering, procurement, and construction. The projects, which span the state, were acquired from Cypress Creek Renewables, which completed their initial development. […]

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Ameresco Inc. and Bright Canyon Energy, an energy infrastructure developer, are working on the proposed Kūpono Solar Project, a combined solar and battery system to be built at the Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam West Loch Annex in Hawai‘i. The project is designed to deliver 42 MW of renewable energy to Hawaiian Electric’s grid on the […]

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Southwestern Electric Power Co. (SWEPCO), a subsidiary of American Electric Power (AEP), is adding three renewable energy projects totaling 999 MW, representing a $2.2 billion investment. SWEPCO expects to issue another request for proposal (RFP) in the near term for additional renewable energy consistent with the company’s integrated resource plan for its energy and capacity […]

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Idemitsu Renewables has achieved commercial operation for the Luciana solar project, a 73 MW installation in Tulare County, Calif. “Considering the unprecedented supply chain challenges the industry faced this past year, we are proud to have successfully achieved commercial operation of the Luciana project through our partnership with East Bay Clean Energy (EBCE),” says Cary […]

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Canadian Solar Inc.’s wholly owned subsidiary, Recurrent Energy LLC, has successfully completed the construction of a 100 MW renewable solar power plant near Ruleville in the Mississippi Delta, providing energy to Entergy Mississippi’s 461,000 customers. The Sunflower Solar Station is the largest solar installation in Mississippi and provides enough energy to power 16,000 homes. The […]

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Qcells says its new solar panel manufacturing facility will be located in Dalton, Ga. The $171 million investment will boost production of advanced photovoltaic modules. “Our additional investment in Dalton will help Qcells better serve the needs of U.S. customers with increased local manufacturing capacity,” states Qcells CEO Justin Lee. “Georgia has become the clean […]

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