Solar

(Credit: Bernhard) Bernhard has signed a 30-year Energy-as-a-Service (EaaS) partnership with Hackensack Meridian Health, which the company says includes $134 million set aside for infrastructure improvements, as well as a promised reduction in carbon emissions.  The healthcare provider operates 18 hospitals across eight counties, and is set to own what …

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Umbriel Solar Facility (Credit: Entergy) 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 …

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Joris Tinbergen Enstall has joined the Agile Electrification Project, a partnership with the University of California-San Diego and industry players, which 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 …

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(Credit: ZSW) 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 …

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Wandoan Solar Farm (Credit: Gransolar Group) GRS, Gransolar Group’s solar EPC contractor, has announced commercial operation of the first stage of the 125 MW Amazon Solar Project Wandoan it built with Vena Energy.   The project is located 400 km northwest of Brisbane and part of a 1 GW multi-staged renewable …

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Jami Stone Burns & McDonnell has been named EPC contractor for two Alliant Energy solar projects in Iowa: the 150 MW Wever project in Lee County and the 50 MW Creston project in Union County.  The company is set to provide fully integrated services for the projects.  “We are excited …

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(Credit: BLM) 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 …

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Jennifer M. Granholm The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) released a new roadmap outlining solutions towards speeding up the interconnection of clean energy onto the nation’s transmission grid and clear the existing backlog of solar, wind and battery projects seeking to be built.  The Transmission Interconnection Roadmap, developed by DOE’s …

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Leslie Hufstetler 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 …

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Pedro Azagra 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 …

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