The American Council on Renewable Energy (ACORE) and Americans for a Clean Energy Grid (ACEG) have launched the Macro Grid Initiative to build support for expanding and upgrading the nation’s transmission network. A 21st-century macro grid will deliver jobs and economic development, a cleaner environment and lower costs for consumers. “We need to improve America’s […]
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Sunrun Inc., a company that provides home solar, battery storage and energy services, and Southern California Edison (SCE), a California-based utility, are working together to launch one of the first residential energy storage virtual power plants in the U.S. Beginning this month and continuing through mid-2021, Sunrun and SCE will network up to 300 of […]
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RP Construction Services Inc. (RPCS), a company that designs, supplies and builds utility-scale ground-mount solar projects, and the Indiana Municipal Power Agency (IMPA) have partnered to build a number of solar tracker projects to supply communities throughout the state of Indiana with solar energy. IMPA leveraged RPCS’s stocking services to safe harbor solar tracker components […]
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Morgan Solar Inc. has sold 13.6 MW DC (10.5 MW AC) of bifacial solar panels with the company’s SimbaX technology to Enbridge Inc., an energy infrastructure company. The solar panels will be manufactured by Silfab Solar Inc. under an exclusive license agreement between the two companies. SimbaX is Morgan Solar’s proprietary optical film technology that […]
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SPI, ESI and North America Smart Energy Week is the largest business-to-business platform for the renewable energy industry. To facilitate an experience that is safe for all stakeholders, the event has moved outdoors to the Las Vegas Convention Center-Bronze Lot. The event will be held on Oct. 21-22 and will offer virtual options for attendees […]
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SunLogix, a company that provides logistics services to the solar power industry, has selected sPower, a renewable energy independent power producer (IPP), as its warehouse partner for the Spotsylvania Solar Energy Center in Spotsylvania County, Va. The project is currently under construction, with phases coming online this year through project completion in the summer of […]
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D. E. Shaw Renewable Investments (DESRI), a North American renewable energy producer, has closed on the Sigurd Solar project, securing both construction debt and tax equity financing. Sigurd Solar is an 80 MW solar facility located just outside the town of Sigurd in Sevier County, Utah. The project commenced construction in late 2019, and is […]
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AVANGRID’s board of directors has appointed Dennis V. Arriola as CEO effective July 20. Arriola succeeds James P. Torgerson who will retire on June 23. Arriola joins AVANGRID from Sempra Energy, where he is currently executive vice president and group president and chief sustainability officer. With more than 25 years in the energy sector, Arriola […]
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REPlantSolutions, an Arizona-based provider of field-proven system solutions and consulting for the solar industry, has committed to support grid security and optimize the cost of photovoltaic (PV) solar electricity. Founded by First Solar alumni, the company supports the needs of solar developers and asset owners with field-proven solutions. “We are proud to provide the solar […]
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The Center for Biological Diversity has filed a brief urging the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) to reject a pending petition aimed at gutting net metering for distributed solar power by putting it under federal control. A declaratory order petition filed in April by the New England Ratepayers Association claims that retail net metering should […]
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Geronimo Energy, a National Grid company, has started construction activities for two Michigan solar projects for which Consumers Energy previously executed power purchase agreements (PPA). The projects, Bingham Solar and Temperance Solar, are part of a solar portfolio called MiSolar Portfolio and are located in Clinton and Monroe counties, respectively. Both projects are expected to […]
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The U.S. solar market installed 3.6 GW of new solar photovoltaic (PV) capacity in Q1, representing its largest first quarter ever in the U.S. According to the U.S. Solar Market Insight Q2 2020 report, recently released by the Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA) and Wood Mackenzie, the coronavirus pandemic is having a significant impact on […]
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