Minnesota

The Minnesota PUC has announced a USD-406-million plan to expand Xcel Energy's Sherco Solar Park to 710 MW, which will triple the amount of solar energy available in the Upper Midwest and power over 150,000 homes annually. Construction has already begun and should be completed by 2025.

The bill consists of funding for Minnesota's first energy storage incentive program as well as far more.

Minnesota energy regulators have actually okayed to a 200-MW solar park project suggested by EDF Renewables in the US state's Dodge County.

Heliene officially unveiled its new solar panel assembly lines to the general public this week in Iron Mountain, Minnesota. The Canadian photovoltaic panel company has actually been running a 150-MW manufacturing facility in Minnesota because 2018. Those lines are still making typical 60- and 72-cell panels using legacy equipment, but now directly next door, brand new equipment will be making mono- and also bifacial panels with half-cut cells at a 420-MW annual capacity plant.

Allied Solar, a new joint venture between Greenwood Sustainable Infrastructure (GSI) and family-owned power advancement organization SolarGen, recently revealed strategies to create a 40-MW solar project in Minnesota.

DEPCOM Power was gotten to develop a 45-MW solar installment for Flint Hills Resources to power the firm's Pine Bend Refinery in Rosemount, Minnesota. The refinery supplies Minnesota as well as the Upper Midwest with fuel, diesel and also jet fuel, heating fuels, asphalt, fertilizer and also the chemical-building blocks made use of in hundreds of everyday items.

Canadian solar business Heliene prepares to spend US$ 21 million in a brand-new module assembly line in Minnesota, taking its total manufacturing ability as much as 900MW.

Minneapolis based Utility Xcel Energy has actually announced its proposal for one of the largest plans of energy financial investments in Minnesota

Nautilus Solar Energy, a national owner-operator of solar jobs, obtained a 10.4-MW area solar profile from ReneSola Power, a fully-integrated solar job programmer as well as provider of energy-efficient products.

CIT is investing around USD200mn in 76 megawatts of photovoltaic projects developed by Clearway Energy – one of the U.S.’s leading renewables operators and developers.

SEIA announced that the Minnesota Solar Energy Industries Association (MnSEIA) is now a formal SEIA state affiliate. This past year, SEIA has also added state affiliate groups in Kentucky, Alabama and Vermont.

New solar farms in Sherburne County may soon have to do more than just produce energy from the sun.

That record figure of utility scale PV was under contract at the end of June with 8.7 GWdc under construction. However, installation levels fell slightly, year-over-year.