North America

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
More Affordable Land On Agenda For United States Admin For Solar and Wind Projects
Land availability, at the right cost is THE concern for solar developers. The US action can likewise be efforts to tamp down on any type of cost increases triggered by limitations on Chinese imports.
Sep 2, 2021 // Plants, Commercial, Markets & Finance News, Policy, USA, North America, Land availability, lease rates, solar land requirements
Nextracker supplying trackers for 1.5-GW Arevon solar project portfolio
Renewables designer Arevon energy intends to use Nextracker single-axis trackers in its 1.5-GW portfolio of solar projects in Indiana as well as Nevada. Nextracker will provide NX Horizon solar trackers with going along with proprietary software as well as control systems.
Sep 1, 2021 // Manufacturing News, Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, Markets & Finance News, USA, North America, Nextracker, Solar Project, Arevon, Justin Johnson, Ryan Booth
Sunrise Energy Ventures to create 7.5-MW solar project for Loudon, Tennessee
Tennessee's Loudon Utility Board (LUB) has actually picked Sunrise Energy Ventures to develop the Dancing Horse Solar project, targeted for building and construction in 2022.
Sep 1, 2021 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, USA, North America, Solar Project, Sunrise Energy Ventures, Ty Ross
Invenergy inks 127MW Colorado PV PPA
Guzman Energy will offtake power from the Boutique Solar project in the US state
Sep 1, 2021 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, Markets & Finance News, USA, PPA, Invenergy, North America, Solar Project, Greg Leuchtmann
Silfab Solar increases US module capacity to 800MW with new center
North American solar manufacturer Silfab Solar has begun to deliver items from its new manufacturing facility in Burlington, Washington, which has increased its manufacturing capability to roughly 800MW annually.
Sep 1, 2021 // Manufacturing News, USA, North America, doe, silfab solar, manufacturing capacity
Mitsui device to purchase power from big SB Energy solar project in Texas
SB Energy, a renewables platform of Japanese empire SoftBank Group Corp (TYO:9984), has signed a long-term power acquisition agreement (PPA) with a subsidiary of fellow-Japanese trader Mitsui & Co Ltd (TYO:8031), protecting an off-taker for a part of the 418-MWp Juno solar farm in Texas.
Aug 31, 2021 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, Markets & Finance News, USA, Japan, Asia, North America, mitsui, sb energy, Solar Project, SoftBank Group Corp
Machine learning determines surprise factors that influence solar farms throughout severe climate
Sandia National Laboratories researchers integrated huge collections of real-world solar information and advanced equipment discovering to research the impacts of severe weather condition on U.S. solar farms, and also figure out what factors impact energy generation. Their outcomes were released earlier this month in the clinical journal Applied Energy.
Aug 31, 2021 // Technology, USA, North America, Solar Farms, Sandia National Laboratory, Thushara Gunda, Nicole Jackson
Space objective examinations NREL perovskite solar cells
On a clear night, Kaitlyn VanSant will certainly have the ability to watch her work whiz by. Knowing the success of her project, however, will certainly need to wait up until her small, momentary enhancement to the International Space Station returns to Earth.
Aug 31, 2021 // Technology, USA, NASA, NREL, solar cells, perovskite, North America, Kaitlyn VanSant, Timothy Peshek
Altus Power adds 79 MW to dispersed solar portfolio
Altus Power Inc has actually acquired a 79-MW operating solar portfolio, taking its complete dispersed solar generation properties across the US to more than 340 MW.
Aug 26, 2021 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, Markets & Finance News, USA, North America, Altus Power
Dynamic Energy constructing 6.6-MW solar array to power Maine grocery store chain
Dynamic Energy Solutions commenced construction of a 6.6-MWDC ground-mounted solar array in Norridgewock, Maine. The project includes a spots offtake contract with grocer Albertsons Companies, as well as it is just one of the largest business solar installations in Maine's solar market.
Aug 26, 2021 // Plants, Commercial, USA, North America, Dynamic Energy, John Conley