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MMEX Acquires Additional Acreage in Texas for Solar Development

MMEX Resources Corp., a development-stage company focusing on planned hydrogen and ultra-clean-fuel projects with carbon capture, has completed additional site acquisitions of 632 acres for its West Texas projects, bringing its total land ownership to 1,082 acres. “We announced on February 22, 2022, that, along with Polaris Engineering, we had completed significant milestones on the […]

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New Jersey Solar Market Exceeded 150,000 Installed Systems in 2021

The New Jersey Board of Public Utilities (NJBPU) reports that the state’s solar market surpassed 150,000 installed systems in 2021. Despite ongoing challenges from the COVID-19 pandemic, over 13,800 solar installations commenced commercial operations in New Jersey in 2021, totaling more than 305 MW DC and contributing to a statewide cumulative capacity exceeding 3.8 GW, […]

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SB Energy Contracts with First Solar for PV Module Supplies

SB Energy Global LLC, a subsidiary of SoftBank Group Corp., has placed a multi-year order for 1.5 GW of First Solar’s advanced, ultra-low-carbon, thin-film photovoltaic (PV) solar modules. SB Energy will deploy these modules across its 4 GW solar and storage development pipeline in the U.S. This order follows SB Energy’s original procurement of 1.7 […]

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Cohoes Innovates with Municipally Owned Floating Solar Inspired by NREL Report

No U.S. cities have done anything like what Cohoes, N.Y., was proposing: a floating solar installation owned and operated by the municipality – but there was no reason it would not work. Two city employees of Cohoes, N.Y. were brainstorming how to power the city’s municipal buildings with renewable energy, but few options made sense. […]

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Partners Launch R3 Renewables Joint Venture

Peabody has launched R3 Renewables LLC, a renewable energy development company, in a joint venture with Riverstone Credit Partners and Summit Partners Credit Advisors. R3 Renewables will pursue the development of over 3.3 GW of solar PV and 1.6 GW of battery storage capacity over the next five years. Initially, R3 Renewables will be engaged […]

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Honeywell Powers Jicarilla Apache Nation Solar Park in New Mexico

Honeywell is supplying Hecate Energy with an energy storage system (ESS) for a solar park located on the Jicarilla Apache Nation in northern New Mexico. When completed in fall 2022, the 50 MW solar farm will be capable of supplying enough electricity to power up to 16,000 average New Mexican homes for a year. Honeywell […]

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New Community Solar Report Focuses on Siting Frameworks

The Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA) is releasing a new report to aid policymakers in siting community solar projects. The report starts with the concept that community solar systems should be designed so they result in ecosystem and agricultural benefits. Then, SEIA recommends policymakers deploy the existing well-established tools to avoid, minimize and/or mitigate any […]

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Strong Supply Chain Needed for U.S. Clean Energy Transition, DOE States

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has published “America’s Strategy to Secure the Supply Chain for a Robust Clean Energy Transition,” a comprehensive U.S. government plan to build an “energy sector industrial base.” The strategy examines technologies and crosscutting topics for analysis in response to Executive Order 14017 on America’s Supply Chains and is part […]

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Greenwood Signs Agreement with AquaSan for Solar Projects in Five States

Greenwood Sustainable Infrastructure, a solar energy investment and development subsidiary of the Libra Group, has acquired a scalable portfolio of solar developments from AquaSan Network subsidiary CMDAJ Holdings LLC. This acquisition positions GSI to provide up to 233 MW in affordable, utility-scale solar energy to new markets, including Minnesota, Colorado, Pennsylvania, South Carolina and Wisconsin. […]

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Standard Solar, Pivot Energy Finish Fifth Community Solar Project in Colorado

Pivot Energy and Standard Solar have completed a nearly 2 MW solar project in Jefferson County in Colorado. The project is the fifth and final site in a series of community solar developments launched by the partnership in 2019 in an effort to expand community solar access across the state. Developed in partnership with Pivot, […]

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Solar Industry’s New Community Solar Report Focuses on Siting Frameworks

The Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA) is releasing a new report to aid policymakers in siting community solar projects. This new report starts with the concept that community solar systems should be designed so they result in ecosystem and agricultural benefits. Then, SEIA recommends policymakers deploy the existing well-established tools to avoid, minimize and/or mitigate […]

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ForeFront Takes on Solar Energy Portfolio Installation at California Airport

The County of Sonoma in California has partnered with ForeFront Power, a developer and asset manager of commercial and industrial-scale solar energy and storage projects, to build a 963 kW solar energy portfolio at Charles M. Schulz-Sonoma County Airport (STS), as well as at the Sonoma County Fleet Operations Building at 709 Russell Avenue in […]

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