North America

Enlight Pushes $3 Billion Arizona Solar-Storage Flagship
Enlight’s $3B Arizona solar-plus-storage hybrid pairs bifacial PV and grid-forming batteries to hit evening peaks, stabilize the grid, streamline interconnection, unlock tax credits, and create jobs.
Feb 3, 2026 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, Storage, USA, Arizona, solar-plus-storage, North America, project finance, Grid reliability
NuGen Plows $150 Million Into Northeast Solar, Storage
NuGen pours $150M into Northeast distributed solar—community arrays and C&I rooftops—with storage-ready builds, standardized ops, and policy tailwinds to cut costs, boost savings, and scale resilient, subscriber-friendly returns.
Feb 3, 2026 // Markets & Finance News, USA, ENERGY STORAGE, investment, North America, Community Solar, Northeast
Terra Energy Raises $105 Million for Battery-Ready Rooftops
Terra Energy secures $105M to supercharge storage-paired rooftop solar—scaling sales, slashing soft costs, and bundling batteries as TOU rates and reforms spark evening self-consumption demand.
Feb 2, 2026 // Residential, Markets & Finance News, Storage, USA, ENERGY STORAGE, Installers, North America
Property Titan Bets on 700-MW California Solar-Storage
700‑MW California solar-plus-storage turns cheap sun into dependable evenings—bifacial trackers, grid-forming battery, CAISO-smart EMS, single interconnection—monetizing arbitrage, ancillary services, RA; financed via debt, tax credits, shaped offtake; boosting local jobs.
Feb 2, 2026 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, Storage, California, USA, CAISO, North America, utility solar, project development, co-located storage
Aspen Closes First New York Community-Solar Tranche
Aspen powers ahead in New York: closing first tranche on 18‑MW community-solar fleet, storage-ready and bankable—anchor tenants, residential subscribers, smart O&M, and grid-friendly benefits built in.
Jan 30, 2026 // Large-Scale, Commercial, Markets & Finance News, USA, New York, North America, acquisitions, Community Solar, distributed generation
South Korea Backs 350-MW Battery-Ready Texas Solar
South Korean–led 350‑MW Texas solar taps ERCOT speed, bifacial tech, and future battery—blending smart financing, quick build, local jobs, and data‑center‑ready, evening‑shaped power.
Jan 29, 2026 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, USA, Texas, South Korea, Asia, North America, ERCOT, utility solar, project development
U.S. Cancels $30 Billion Biden-Era Energy Loans
Trump team scraps $30B Biden-era green loans, rewrites $53B, axes $9.5B for wind/solar; rebrands office to Energy Dominance Financing, steers cash to gas and nuclear.
Jan 23, 2026 // Markets & Finance News, USA, Trump, North America, biden
Doral Energizes 48-MW Great Bend Solar in Ohio
Ohio’s 48‑MW Great Bend Solar flips the switch, delivering midday power, tax revenue, and jobs—bifacial trackers now, battery-ready for evening peaks as retiring thermal plants fade.
Jan 22, 2026 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, USA, North America, Ohio, utility solar, doral renewables, commissioning
Meta Taps Origis for 240-MW Texas Solar
Meta signs VPPA with Origis Energy for 240‑MWdc Greyhound A solar in Texas, hedging ERCOT power, delivering RECs, and bankrolling battery‑ready build to power growing data centers.
Jan 16, 2026 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, USA, Texas, North America, vppa, meta
Toyota Inks Texas Solar VPPA with Lightsource bp
Toyota inks VPPA with Lightsource bp for a 231‑MW Texas solar project, hedging ERCOT power costs, slashing Scope 2 with RECs, and paving the way for future storage.
Jan 14, 2026 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, USA, Toyota, Lightsource BP, North America
Otovo Buys SSP, Builds U.S. Solar O&M Beachhead
Otovo buys SSP, enters U.S. via O&M, chasing post–NEM 3.0 recurring revenue with diagnostics, retrofits and storage—building a services beachhead to cross-sell installs and aggregate devices into VPPs.
Jan 9, 2026 // Residential, USA, North America, Otovo, SSP
Treaty Oak Kicks Off 385-MW Louisiana Solar Build
Treaty Oak Clean Energy closes financing and breaks ground on a 385‑MW, battery-ready Louisiana solar giant—IRA-fueled, tracker-equipped, job-creating, and primed for PPAs, corporate offtake, and storage.
Jan 9, 2026 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, USA, North America, PV Power Plant, Louisiana, Treaty Oak Clean Energy
Tokyo Century, Kyuden Tap 20-Year Philly Solar Deal
Tokyo Century and Kyuden split a 20‑MW Pennsylvania solar, secured by a 20‑year PPA; October go‑live underscores Japanese capital’s charge into contracted U.S. clean power, with storage optionality ahead.
Jan 8, 2026 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, USA, North America, Kyuden, Tokyo Century
Pattern to Buy Cordelio, Bolstering North America
Pattern Energy buying Cordelio adds 1.55 GW and pipeline, lifting fleet near 10 GW across U.S./Canada, sharpening costs and firming output by pairing wind and solar with storage.
Jan 7, 2026 // Markets & Finance News, USA, pattern energy, North America
Consumers Energy Lights Up Michigan’s 250-MW Muskegon Solar
Consumers Energy powers up 250‑MW Muskegon Solar—550,000 panels fueling 40,000 homes and 200+ jobs—battery-ready, grid-smart, and a keystone toward 8,000 MW of Michigan solar by 2040.
Jan 7, 2026 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, USA, Michigan, North America, PV Power Plant, Consumers Energy