North America

WEC Energy Group subsidiaries recommend 325-MW solar + storage project in Wisconsin
We Energies and Wisconsin Public Service (WPS), subsidiaries of WEC Energy Group, are advancing prepare for a new 325-MW solar as well as battery storage project. The Darien Solar Energy Center is the company's second suggested large-scale solar and battery project announced this year.
Mar 16, 2021 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, Storage, USA, Wisconsin, WEC Energy Group, North America, solar + storage project, Tom Metcalfe
FPL submits four-year rate proposal enabling 894MW of solar growth
United States utility Florida Power & Light (FPL) has submitted a four-year rate plan that could see 894MW of solar PV systems contributed to the grid.
Mar 16, 2021 // Markets & Finance News, USA, UTILITY-SCALE SOLAR, solar plus storage, North America, NextEra Energy, Eric Silagy, Community Solar, utility solar, FPL, florida power and light, rate hike
Records roll as 'historic' 2020 United States solar deployment tees up decade of growth
The US solar industry smashed multiple records in 2020 as the sector recorded an "historic" 4th quarter, teeing up an honest decade where installations are anticipated to more than quadruple.
Mar 16, 2021 // Markets & Finance News, USA, SEIA, woodmac, North America, investment tax credit, policy, regulation, us solar, woodmackenzie
LG Energy Solution will invest $4.5 billion to enhance American battery production
LG Energy Solution (formerly LG Chem) plans to invest more than $4.5 billion over the next four years on battery production ability in the USA. This new investment will allow for 10,000 more American jobs and 70 GWh of additional battery manufacturing capacity. The batteries will mainly be provided to the electrical lorry market and some energy storage space system companies.
Mar 15, 2021 // Markets & Finance News, Storage, USA, LG CHEM, North America, Jong Hyun Kim
Nextracker, Solar FlexRack consent to settle license violation situation
United States solar tracker manufacturer Nextracker Inc, had by Flex Ltd (NASDAQ: FLEX), has actually resolved a license violation lawsuit versus the Solar FlexRack department of Northern States Metals Co
Mar 12, 2021 // Markets & Finance News, USA, Solar FlexRack, North America, Nextracker, Solar Tracker, Dan Shugar
Seeing both sides of light collection
Two types of products are far better than one when it comes to solar cells, as exposed by an international team that has actually checked a new mix of products and also design to boost solar-cell effectiveness.
Mar 12, 2021 // Technology, Canada, Germany, Italy, solar cells, Europe, North America, efficiency, KAUST, Stefaan De Wolf, Michele De Bastiani
Nautilus Solar purchases 47-MW area solar portfolio in Maine
Nautilus Solar Power LLC has acquired 8 area solar projects in Maine with a mixed direct current (DC) ability of 47.2 MW, it introduced on Thursday.
Mar 11, 2021 // Markets & Finance News, USA, North America, Nautilus Solar Energy, solar projects, Maine
Meyer Burger to get in United States market with Heterojunction solar panels in 2021
Meyer Burger has actually accelerated strategies to target the United States premium household rooftop market with its heterojunction (HJ) PV modules.
Mar 11, 2021 // Manufacturing News, Markets & Finance News, USA, meyer burger, North America, heterojunction solar cell
New SunSpec software application verifies solar item conformity to IEEE grid interaction needs
To speed up the delivery of Distributed Energy Resource (DER) technology such as solar and also storage space products that follow IEEE 1547-2018, the UNITED STATE national criterion for DER, the SunSpec Alliance has launched the SunSpec SVP Dashboard examination platform to its 125 member companies.
Mar 11, 2021 // Software, USA, North America, Tom Tansy, SunSpec
Northvolt acquires United States battery technology business
Move to acquire Cuberg will certainly be complied with by brand-new Silicon Valley centre
Mar 10, 2021 // Technology, Storage, USA, NORTHVOLT, Sweden, Europe, North America, Peter Carlsson, Cuberg
Mainspring Energy Launches New Power Generation Technology and Announces $150 Million Contract with NextEra Energy Resources
Mainspring Energy, Inc. today launched the Mainspring Linear Generator, the first product in a brand-new classification of power generation technology for business as well as industrial buildings, utilities, as well as microgrids.
Mar 10, 2021 // Technology, California, USA, North America, Renewable Energy, electric grid, Mainspring Energy, Shannon Miller, John Ketchum
Automated chemistry collections new pace for materials discovery
Scientists at the Division of Energy's Oak Ridge National Research Laboratory as well as the University of Tennessee are automating the search for brand-new materials to advance solar energy technologies.
Mar 10, 2021 // Technology, USA, solar cells, North America, Mahshid Ahmadi, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, University of Tennessee, Sergei Kalinin, Maxim Ziatdinov
Nexamp safeguards financing for 380MW portfolio people solar and also power storage space assets
United States community solar carrier Nexamp has actually shut a US$ 440 million debt center for a 380MW portfolio of PV as well as power storage properties.
Mar 10, 2021 // Markets & Finance News, USA, Battery Storage, North America, Nexamp, Community Solar, debt financing, Peter Tawczynski
Discovering key to affordable, rapid manufacturing of solid-state batteries for EVs
A brand-new manufacture method can allow solid-state auto lithium-ion batteries to take on nonflammable ceramic electrolytes utilizing the very same production procedures as in batteries made with conventional liquid electrolytes.
Mar 9, 2021 // Technology, Storage, USA, Lithium-ion batteries, North America, Georgia Institute of Technology, EV, Gleb Yushin, Yiran Xiao, Kostiantyn Turcheniuk
Rikers Island might come to be a renewable resource and storage space center
Rikers Island, the well known island house to New york city City's main jail complex, is to be made use of to discover the development of renewable resource generation as well as battery power storage.
Mar 9, 2021 // Markets & Finance News, USA, New York, solar-plus-storage, North America, colocation, bill de blasio, feasibility study, rikers island