California

20-year deal with the Southern California Public Power Authority to offtake from its 117MW Sapphire project

United States residence solar battery storage firm Electriq Power has actually inked a multi-year agreement protecting more than USD 300 million (EUR 281.9 m) to support community solar and storage space projects for households across California.

Arevon Energy and also San Diego Community Power broke ground on the Vikings Energy Farm, a solar + storage power plant in Holtville, California. The project was first announced in May 2021.

Gore Street Energy Storage Fund (GSF) has agreed to acquire the 200MW Big Rock energy storage project in California from Avantus, with a grid connection scheduled for the second half of 2024. This acquisition will increase GSF's portfolio to 27 projects totalling 1173.2MW of operational and construction assets across the UK, Ireland, Germany the US.

Statevolt, one of 3 lithium-ion (Li-ion) battery cell development companies started by Swedish entrepreneur Lars Carlstrom, on Monday introduced it has gotten a 135-acre site in Imperial Valley, California, where it plans to build a 54-GWh manufacturing facility.

HASI will make a common equity investment in a concerning 1.3 GW portfolio of operating solar as well as wind projects situated in 6 states of the US. The general public company is also funding land had by AES for a solar project as well as a standalone battery energy storage system in California.

Leeward Renewable Energy (LRE) has actually finished building and also commenced operations of its 100-MW Rabbitbrush Solar Facility situated in Kern County, California. The facility likewise includes a 20-MW, 50-MWh battery energy storage space system.

Fusion Fuel and Electus Energy have gotten in a joint venture arrangement to create a large-scale green hydrogen project in Bakersfield, California.

The 485-MW Blythe solar complicated and also its 387-MW battery storage system in California's Riverside County are totally operational, the Department of the Interior introduced on Wednesday.

International furniture shopkeeper IKEA US has partnered with SunPower, a solar modern technology and also energy companies, to make home solar power remedies less complicated to access in choose California locations.

Energy Vault Holdings Inc (NYSE: NRGV) on Thursday said it has actually signed a contract to release a 68.8-MW/ 275.2-MWh battery energy storage system at W Power LLC's Energy Reliability Centre in Stanton, southern California.

In an initiative that looks at "water-energy nexus paradigm acquiring interest amongst public utilities", "the California Department of Water Resources, utility company Turlock Irrigation District (TID), Marin County, California's water and also energy project programmer Solar AquaGrid, together with the University of California, Merced, have actually joined hands for Project Nexus.

The 457-MW Palen solar complex in California's Riverside County has actually achieved full commercial procedures, the United States Department of the Interior (DOI) announced this week.

US utility-scale solar installments in Q2 2022 were down 53% year-on-year as policy headwinds and trade concerns affected growth and raised the stockpile of postponed projects, a new report has actually disclosed.

Solar developer Clearway Energy will certainly release 500MW/2,000 MWh of battery energy storage space systems (BESS) from innovation firm Wärtsilä at five PV plants in the US.