Nexamp is partnering with Starbucks, which as a long-term renewables purchaser is set to anchor the deployment of 40 MW across six Illinois community solar farms.  The solar projects are expected to serve 1,100 local residents subscribing within the ComEd and Ameren utility territories. Construction and operation on these projects will include roles for participants […]

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The Minnesota Public Utilities Commission has approved a site permit for the Sherco Solar 3 project, Xcel Energy’s 250 MW solar facility in Clear Lake, Minn.  Upon completion, the projects are expected to have 710 MW of capacity. The solar generation is set to replace much of the electricity produced by the coal-fired Sherco Generating […]

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vHive has released its latest product designed for autonomous digitization and AI analysis of solar farms.  The company’s auto-discovery and multi-drone technology aims to offer a comprehensive view of power anomalies, their root causes and their impact on power loss through autonomous data capture.  It adds that its digital twin platform, powered by AI analytics, […]

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U.S. Senators Joe Manchin (I-WV) and John Barrasso (R-WY), chairman and ranking member of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, have released the Energy Permitting Reform Act of 2024.  The bipartisan legislation hopes to strengthen American energy security by accelerating the permitting process for critical energy and mineral projects of all types in the […]

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GameChange Solar has completed a third-party validation of its bifacial PV modeling performance through Enertis Applus+. The company uses the bifacial_radiance software tool developed by the National Renewable Energy Laboratory to model these types of solar systems, which the company says considers parameters such as structure shading factor, mismatch loss factor and transparency factor.  The […]

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Clearway Energy Group has closed on $700 million in construction financing and begun construction on two projects in Fresno and San Bernardino counties, Calif.  Luna Valley is a 200 MW solar project in Fresno County. Daggett Storage is a 113.5 MW standalone battery energy storage system (BESS) in San Bernardino County and is the final […]

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Avangrid has partnered with a local rancher to graze sheep at two solar farms in Oregon and Washington, launching what it calls the largest “solar grazing” operation in the region.  The company began employing the vegetation management method using grazing livestock last year with a pilot project at Pachwáywit Fields, Ore. It has since expanded the […]

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Eaglesledge Energy has provided an update on the development of its Saskatchewan-based Belle Plaine Clean-Tech Energy Refinery & Solar Facility. The company’s campaign to move the project through the Saskatchewan Environment Ministry’s permitting and approval channels continued when its leaders hosted their first open house in the Rural Municipality of Pense No. 160. Members of […]

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The Minnesota Public Utilities Commission has approved a site permit for Sherco Solar 3 project, Xcel Energy’s 250 MW solar facility in Clear Lake, Minn.  Upon completion, the projects are expected to have a 710 MW capacity. The solar generation is set to replace much of the electricity produced by the coal-fired Sherco Generating Plant […]

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A research team at the School of Engineering of the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) have revealed the existence of surface concavities on individual crystal grains of perovskite thin films while unraveling their effects on the film’s properties and reliability.  To address issues surrounding the long-term stability of perovskite devices under light, […]

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Duke Energy has enrolled more than 1,300 North Carolina customers in its PowerPair pilot, a one-time incentive-based program designed to help make home solar plus battery energy storage systems (BESS) more affordable. Approved by the North Carolina Utilities Commission in January and launched in May, the pilot program offers up to $9,000 in incentives for […]

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First Solar says it owns U.S. patents related to the manufacturing of tunnel oxide passivated contact (TOPCon) crystalline-silicon PV solar cells. First Solar secured the patent and related international counterparts through its acquisition of TetraSun, and has initiated an investigation of several solar manufacturers for potential infringement of its patents.  The patents include issued patents […]

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