North America

Home improvement chain Lowe's indications PPA for 250MW from Illinois solar farm
United States house renovation business Lowe's strategies to obtain renewable resource from a solar project for the very first time after securing a manage designer Swift Current Energy.
Dec 17, 2020 // Plants, Markets & Finance News, USA, PPA, North America, Illinois, swift current energy
15 companies look to invest $3 billion in solar production
Firms checking out chances to build solar wafer, cell, module abilities
Dec 17, 2020 // Markets & Finance News, USA, First Solar, North America, Raj Kumar Singh, Vikram Solar, narendra modi, Saibaba Vutukuri, ACME Solar, 1366 Technologies
Capital Dynamics and NIPSCO indicator power purchase arrangement in US
Capital Dynamics' Clean Energy Infrastructure (CEI) company has signed a 280MW power acquisition contract (PPA) with Northern Indiana Public Service Company (NIPSCO), a subsidiary of utility firm NiSource.
Dec 17, 2020 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, Markets & Finance News, Capital Dynamics, USA, PPA, North America, Benoit Allehaut, nipsco, Mike Hooper
Shell-backed Silicon Ranch closes funding to sustain more than 1GW of brand-new solar
United States independent power producer Silicon Ranch Corporation has actually shut an investment round that brought in US$ 225 million in new equity capital.
Dec 17, 2020 // Plants, Markets & Finance News, USA, UTILITY-SCALE SOLAR, North America, shell, Silicon Ranch, capital raise, Reagan Farr, Elisabeth Brinton
A brand-new technique for the functionalization of graphene
A global study group including Professor Federico Rosei of the Institut nationwide de la recherche scientifique (INRS) has shown a novel procedure to modify the framework as well as residential or commercial properties of graphene.
Dec 16, 2020 // Technology, Canada, France, UK, China, Europe, Asia, North America, Denmark, Graphene, Federico Rosei, Institut national de la recherche scientifique, INRS
100-MW battery project to be set up in Queens for Con Edison
74 Power Global as well as Con Edison have authorized a seven-year send off legal rights contract for the advancement of a 100-MW power storage project, the East River Energy Storage System in Astoria, Queens.
Dec 16, 2020 // Storage, USA, North America, Henry Yun, Storage Project, Tim Cawley, Gil C. Quinones
Solar Power Globe's most-read stories of 2020
During a year unlike any other, Solar Power World proceeded working hard to bring solar installers, designers and also manufacturers the functions and also information they needed to do their jobs much better. Without meetings to participate in for chances to learn more about the latest items as well as fads in the sector, SPW editors recognized it was more crucial than ever before to maintain viewers up-to-date with prompt posts.
Dec 16, 2020 // Technology, Residential, Markets & Finance News, Storage, Inverters, USA, solar cells, JinkoSolar, inverter, perovskite, SMA, North America
Solar market recuperates from worst pandemic influences in Q3 2020
U.S. solar companies installed 3.8 GW of brand-new solar PV capacity in Q3 2020, a 9% rise from Q2 installations as the industry experienced a recuperation from the most awful effects of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Dec 16, 2020 // Markets & Finance News, USA, North America, Abigail Ross Hopper, Michelle Davis, covid-19
Cordelio Power obtains 150-MW eastern Missouri solar project
Eco-friendly power manufacturer Cordelio Power acquired a 150-MW solar project, Winfield, under advancement in Lincoln County, Missouri. Cordelio obtained the Winfield project from a joint venture in between Dakota Power Partners as well as MAP Energy, the original designers of the project.
Dec 16, 2020 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, USA, North America, Solar Project, Nick Karambelas, Jay Schoenberger, Aaron Zubaty
Arizona energy concerns RFPs for renewables, battery storage space retrofits
Arizona Public Service (APS) has actually provided an ask for propositions (RFP) for 300-400MW of renewables capability and also for energy storage to be retrofitted at its solar plants.
Dec 16, 2020 // Plants, Storage, USA, UTILITY-SCALE SOLAR, Arizona, Arizona Public Service, APS, Invenergy, North America, us utility, storage retrofit, Utility-Scale Storage
US Q3 solar installations amount to 3.8 GW.
Utility-scale market was the 'primary driver' audit for 2.7 GW, says Wood Mackenzie.
Dec 15, 2020 // Markets & Finance News, Market Research, USA, Wood Mackenzie, North America, Abigail Ross
7X Energy companions with Nestlé to finish financing for 250 MW PV project in Texas
Texas-based utility-scale solar advancement firm 7X Energy Inc. has partnered with Nestle to be the sole tax obligation equity capitalist for its 250 MW "Taygete I" energy project situated in Pecos County, Texas.
Dec 15, 2020 // Markets & Finance News, USA, North America, Nestlé, 7x energy, Solar Project
Sheets of carbon nanotubes come in a rainbow of colors
Nanomaterials researchers in Finland, the United States and China have developed a color atlas for 466 distinct varieties of single-walled carbon nanotubes.
Dec 15, 2020 // Technology, USA, China, solar cells, Europe, Asia, North America, Finland, Graphene, thin films, Esko I. Kauppinen, Junichiro Kono, Nan Wei
Terra-Gen and also Mortenson to companion on 1,118 MW solar as well as 2,165 MWh storage project
Terra-Gen introduced a contract with Mortenson to continue on the "Edwards & Sanborn" solar as well as energy storage space project found in Kern County, California.
Dec 15, 2020 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, Storage, USA, North America, terra-gen, Mortenson
Solar Support launches analytics program to reduce heritage inverter downtime
Design solutions business Solar Support has actually presented a diagnostic equipment maintenance program that uses analytics to evaluate the wellness of main inverters in utility-scale PV systems. Backed by 22 years of inverter and power electronic devices repairing, the program supports both anticipating as well as corrective O&M.
Dec 15, 2020 // Technology, Inverters, USA, North America, Solar Support, Cliff Myers