Stuttgart-based Zentrum für Sonnenenergie- und Wasserstoff-Forschung Baden-Württemberg (ZSW) and First Solar have formed a strategic research partnership focused on advancing thin film PV. The partnership will focus both on performance and the potential to develop and optimize all-thin-film tandem technologies on a gigawatt scale. ZSW, a research institute with a focus on thin film PV, […]
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Enstall has joined the Agile Electrification Project, a partnership with the University of California-San Diego and industry players that aims to help protect solar jobs in the state through cost reduction methods and lowering barriers to powering homes with renewables. The project, which the company joined as a founding sponsor, is launching with research projects that […]
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Entergy Texas has contracted its first solar resource, the 150 MW Umbriel Solar facility located in Polk County, Texas, selected through a renewables-focused RFP. “Generating electricity from renewable resources plays an important role in building a cleaner energy future, and Entergy Texas is seeking ways to diversify its generation portfolio and support the growing energy […]
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Nearly 200 solar and storage companies have sent a letter to congressional leaders calling for legislation to improve permitting, project siting, transmission and public lands access for solar and solar plus storage projects, says Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA). “There are hundreds of billions of investment dollars that depend on our ability to get clean […]
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Avangrid has received its final shipment of solar panels to the True North project site, a 238 MW solar farm under construction near Waco, Texas. “We are thrilled to have reached another major construction milestone at True North, which is set to become Avangrid’s largest solar facility and our first in Texas,” says Pedro Azagra, […]
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ArcLight Capital Partners’ subsidiary Infinigen Renewables is partnering with FlexGen Power Systems to bring a 32 MW solar and 15 MW BESS, located in the Yabucoa Municipality of Puerto Rico, online. The project is set to utilize FlexGen’s HybridOS energy management system platform and digital controls. “This project expands our current fleet in Puerto Rico […]
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The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has released a new roadmap outlining solutions toward speeding up the interconnection of clean energy onto the nation’s transmission grid and clearing the existing backlog of solar, wind and battery projects seeking to be built. The Transmission Interconnection Roadmap, developed by DOE’s Interconnection Innovation e-Xchange (i2X), is meant to […]
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The U.S. Bureau of Land Management (BLM) has announced that the Sunlight Storage II BESS is now fully operational, adding an additional 300 MW of energy storage to the Desert Sunlight Solar Farm in Riverside County, Calif., bringing the project’s total energy storage capacity to 530 MW. “BLM-managed public lands play a critical role in […]
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Sol Systems and SOLARCYCLE have formed a partnership with the aim of ensuring Sol Systems’ energy projects are sustainable throughout a solar panel’s lifecycle by addressing the challenge of recycling and reusing retired panels. SOLARCYCLE technology extracts materials such as silver, silicon, copper, aluminum and glass, allowing the company to divert materials from landfills and […]
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Nova Clean Energy has acquired HyFuels, a 1 GW portfolio of mid-to-late-stage wind and solar development projects as well as an earlier stage green ammonia project located on the Texas Gulf Coast. HyFuels, spread over approximately 25,000 acres, has its power supply split evenly between wind and solar. The first phase of the project is […]
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Origis Energy has closed on a $136 million construction financing facility and conversion to term loan with MUFG for its Rice Creek Solar project under construction in Putnam County, Fla. Rice Creek Solar, a 75 MW PV solar facility project the company says is nearing completion, is contracted by the Florida Municipal Power Agency (FMPA) […]
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SolaREIT has closed $13 million in real estate financing for a portfolio of NineDot Energy’s New York City area-based BESS projects. This is SolaREIT’s first standalone BESS deal since the company announced the expansion of its real estate financing solutions to storage developers. “We are delighted to work with NineDot Energy to support the development […]
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