North America

Enel Buys 830 MW of U.S. Wind, Solar
Enel snaps up 830 MW of operating US wind and solar, boosting EBITDA with no construction risk—poised for storage retrofits, repowering, and PPA upside amid data center-driven demand.
Feb 23, 2026 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, USA, Enel, North America, wind, acquisition
Origis Wraps Swift Air, Fuels Occidental’s Permian Decarbonization
Origis completes 500‑MWdc Swift Air in Texas; $650M project powers Occidental and STRATOS DAC, boosting ERCOT capacity and signaling soaring corporate appetite for long-duration clean energy.
Feb 20, 2026 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, USA, Texas, North America, origis, Occidental, Permian
Shell’s Savion Buys 2-GW Hanford Solar-Storage Project
Hecate sells up to 2‑GW Cereza solar-plus-storage at Washington’s Hanford Site to Shell’s Savion, which leads development; rare gigawatt project targets corporate offtake, grid services, and peak shifting.
Feb 19, 2026 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, Storage, USA, Washington, North America, hecate, Savion
Clearway Powers Up $685 Million ERCOT Solar-Storage Hub
Clearway’s $685M Texas solar-plus-storage shifts sunshine to evening peaks, stacking ERCOT revenues with EMS-optimized batteries, co-location efficiencies, and sharp O&M—delivering cleaner power, grid services, and bankable resilience.
Feb 18, 2026 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, Storage, USA, Texas, solar plus storage, North America, clearway, ERCOT, ommissioning
Fermi Raises $500M for Texas Private Energy Campus
Fermi raises $500M for a Texas behind‑the‑meter power-and-data campus, blending solar, grid‑forming batteries and ERCOT arbitrage to guarantee AI/industrial uptime, price certainty—and co‑site power with compute.
Feb 11, 2026 // Markets & Finance News, Storage, USA, ENERGY STORAGE, Texas, North America, project finance, data centers, private grid
EnergyRe Inks 360 MW South Carolina Solar PPAs
EnergyRe inks PPAs for 360 MW South Carolina solar, storage-ready and evening-shifting—locking price certainty, lender backing, and local jobs as demand surges from electrification, data centers, extreme weather.
Feb 6, 2026 // Plants, USA, PPAs, North America, South Carolina, utility solar, economic impact
Avangrid Brings 200MW of Oregon Solar Online
Avangrid powers up 200 MW of Oregon solar, battery-ready for evening peaks—cutting daytime prices, serving data centers, creating jobs, and boosting grid reliability with flexible, WECC-compliant control.
Feb 4, 2026 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, USA, Solar, North America, Oregon, avangrid, commissioning
Meta Taps Zelestra for 136 MW Texas Solar
Meta inks 136‑MW Texas solar PPA, powering data centers and ERCOT peaks, with battery-ready design—locking price certainty, cutting Scope 2, and boosting local jobs and grid resilience.
Feb 4, 2026 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, USA, PPA, Texas, utility-scale, North America, meta
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