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 …
(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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Abigail Ross Hopper 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 …
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Kevin Smith Arevon Energy has signed a long-term tolling agreement with MCE for 188 MW of the Cormorant Energy Storage Project, a 250 MW stand-alone BESS set to be constructed in two phases in Daly City, Calif. The first 188 MW phase is scheduled to begin construction at the start …
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