North America

Altus Power upsizes senior funding facility to USD 503m
Altus Power Inc, the tidy energy company that is preparing to listing in New york city via a merging with a blank-check firm, announced today that it has upsized an investment-grade elderly funding facility to USD 503 million (EUR 425m).
Sep 7, 2021 // Markets & Finance News, USA, North America, Altus Power
Globe Trade Organization guidelines that U.S. tariffs on Chinese photovoltaic panels are reasonable
A Globe Trade Organization disagreement panel has actually found that the USA complied with all WTO policies when establishing safeguard actions against imported solar cells as well as modules in 2018, and also the Trump Administration had ample reason to enforce the tariffs.
Sep 7, 2021 // Tariffs, USA, Trump, solar panel, North America, Chine
Swinerton selects Ingeteam inverters for 350 MW of California solar projects
Ingeteam has actually supplied 350 MW of solar inverters for 2 solar projects in California that are being developed by Swinerton Renewable Energy.
Sep 7, 2021 // Plants, Inverters, USA, North America, Ingeteam, Swinerton, solar projects\, Nohra Nasr
USTDA accepts give for project to digitise mini-grids in country Benin
The US Trade and also Development Agency (USTDA) will expand a give financing for technical assistance to Beninese mini-grid utility Sherlock Grids SAS, in support of its efforts to bring tidy power to rural neighborhoods in the West African country.
Sep 6, 2021 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, Grids, USA, Africa, ustda, North America, mini-grids, Benin
SPI 2021 cancelled as organisers motivate contributions to assist New Orleans
Solar trade convention Solar energy International (SPI) has actually been cancelled because of the destruction caused by Hurricane Ida on New Orleans, where the event was scheduled to take place later on this month.
Sep 6, 2021 // Markets & Finance News, USA, North America, exhibition, events, Louisiana, spi, trade show
Otter Tail Power's resource plan includes 150-MW solar addition
Minnesota-based Otter Tail Power Company will be wanting to add 150 MW of solar ability under its 2022-2036 Integrated Resource Plan (IRP).
Sep 6, 2021 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, USA, North America, Otter Tail Power Company
CIP chooses possession supervisor for 477MW Texas solar
Exus Management Partners chosen to take care of the Fighting Jays project near Houston
Sep 6, 2021 // Plants, USA, Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners, North America, CIP, Dhaval Bhalodia, Mads Skovgaard Andersen
United States Vanadium Introduces $2.1 M Manufacturing Capacity Expansion
American chemicals producer US Vanadium has actually announced a $2.1 million expansion of its manufacturing capacity for ultra-high-purity electrolyte made use of by grid-level vanadium flow batteries (VRFB).
Sep 6, 2021 // Markets & Finance News, Storage, USA, VRFB, North America, Vanadium, CellCube, Enerox GmbH, ultra-high-purity electrolyte, vanadium flow batteries
Quanta Services to purchase Blattner Holdings in US$ 2.7 bn deal
Quanta Services has actually become part of a definitive contract to get Blattner Holding Company, a utility-scale renewables services carrier that has actually supervised greater than 12GW of mounted solar assets, in a deal worth US$ 2.7 billion.
Sep 6, 2021 // Markets & Finance News, USA, North America, blattner, Quanta, Scott Blattner
EDF Renewables and Clean Power Alliance sign PPA for Desert Quartzite solar + storage space project
EDF Renewables North America (EDFR) and Clean Power Alliance (CPA) introduced the signing of a 15-year PPA for the Desert Quartzite Solar-plus-Storage project.
Sep 3, 2021 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, Markets & Finance News, Storage, USA, PPA, North America, EDF Renewables, Clean Power Alliance, Ted Bardacke, solar + storage project
Clearloop starts building and construction on utility-scale Tennessee solar project moneyed by small business
Clearloop commemorated the groundbreaking of its 1-MW solar farm in Jackson, Tennessee, a utility-scale solar farm in the USA straight financed by solar offsets. Clearloop's solar farm will certainly provide enough tidy power to power 200 residences, aiding to tidy up the Sun Belt's fossil-fuel-dependent grid where less than 1% of electrical power is currently sourced from solar power.
Sep 3, 2021 // Plants, Commercial, USA, North America, Solar Project, Clearloop, Sean Kinghorn
Trump's Solar-Panel Tariffs Survive China's Challenge at WTO
China really did not demonstrate how U.S. safeguards failed to meet WTO rules Trump management set tariff-rate quotas on Chinese imports
Sep 3, 2021 // Tariffs, USA, China, Asia, Donald Trump, North America, Katherine Tai
TransAlta Renewables to get 122-MW US solar portfolio from CIP
Canadian independent power manufacturer (IPP) TransAlta Renewables Inc (TSE: RNW) claimed today it has actually consented to buy a 122-MW solar power plant portfolio in North Carolina from a fund handled by Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners (CIP).
Sep 2, 2021 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, Markets & Finance News, USA, North America, CIP, TransAlta Renewables
MPC Energy hires Isotron to develop 21 MW of solar parks in El Salvador
Isotron SA, part of Spanish group Isastur, has won the contract to construct the Santa Rosa & Villa Sol solar energy plants in El Salvador with an incorporated capability of 21.07 MWp.
Sep 2, 2021 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, El Salvador, North America, solar parks, MPC Energy, Isotron
Invenergy safeguards cash for 200MW United States solar build
Calhoun is its very first PV scheme in the state of Michigan
Sep 2, 2021 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, Markets & Finance News, USA, Solar, Invenergy, North America, Anneli Alers