North America

United States programmer protects 55MW of Maine solar
Borrego Solar will quickly start building 55MW of brand-new solar ability in the US state of Maine.
Oct 22, 2020 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, USA, North America, Maine, Borrego Solar
Canadian pension fund clinches Spanish solar procurement
Canada-based institutional capitalist Caisse de depot et positioning du Quebec (CDPQ) has shut the procurement of a 216MW solar profile located in a number of Spanish areas.
Oct 22, 2020 // Plants, Markets & Finance News, Canada, Spain, Europe, North America, Q-Energy, CDPQ, Maria Pilar Garcia Guijarro
It's Official: Solar Is the Cheapest Electricity in History
The International Energy Agency (IEA) says the expense per megawatt to build solar plants is listed below nonrenewable fuel sources worldwide for the very first time. Public success tales like Elon Musk's solar as well as wind battery farm in Australia have actually helped move public view. All 4 IEA situations consist of a mix of renewables in addition to nuclear and the globe's continuing to be nonrenewable fuel source plants.
Oct 22, 2020 // Market Research, USA, India, Elon Musk, China, Europe, Asia, North America, International Energy Agency
Avangrid to acquire United States power holding business PNM Resources
Iberdrola via its US-based utility firm Avangrid has revealed the purchase of New Mexico's energy holding firm PNM Resources.
Oct 22, 2020 // Markets & Finance News, USA, Iberdrola, North America, avangrid, Ignacio Galán
Tesla affordable solar strategy paying dividends as installs rebound
Tesla has said its technique to deliver the lowest-cost solar rooftop installments in the US is settling after it saw an increasing of installs in Q3 2020.
Oct 22, 2020 // Markets & Finance News, USA, TESLA, ENERGY STORAGE, Elon Musk, North America, Solar Rooftop
New research reveals UNITED STATE solar installments raised 3,000% in one decade
In 2019, the United States produced 30-times a lot more solar energy and also greater than triple the amount of wind energy than it performed in 2010, according to a brand-new report from Environment America Research & Policy Center. The project, "Renewables increasing 2020," records the growth of five vital clean energy modern technologies throughout the past decade: solar energy, wind power, battery storage, power performance and electric cars.
Oct 21, 2020 // Markets & Finance News, Market Research, USA, North America, Susan Rakov, Emma Searson
NIPSCO wraps up plans for 900 MW of new Indiana solar energy
North Indiana Public Service Company (NIPSCO), a subsidiary of NiSource, revealed that it will certainly bring an added 900 MW of solar power to Indiana with the Dunns Bridge I, Dunns Bridge II as well as Cavalry Solar Energy Centers as part of the firm's long-term generation approach.
Oct 21, 2020 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, USA, North America, nipsco, Mike Hooper, NextEra Energy Resources, Kendell Culp
Solar modern technology meets tradition on a Monson family members farm
SunBug Solar, a Massachusetts-based solar options supplier, has completed the building of a dual-use solar-terra solar system in Monson, Massachusetts. The style of the system enables the regional landowner to gather both sunlight from above and crops from listed below on land which has been in the family for 3 generations.
Oct 21, 2020 // Technology, Plants, USA, Massachusetts, North America, solar projects, SunBug Solar, Nate Tassinari
One More Major Development For Solar Energy
The supposed gas bridge has recently come to be the scourge of coal. Currently, next-generation perovskite solar cells are likely to not just place the last nail in the coal's coffin yet likewise to twist the knife into a suffering oil and gas industry.
Oct 21, 2020 // Technology, USA, NREL, Trump, North America, efficiency, perovskite solar cells, Thin-film PV panels, Oak Ridge National Lab
Canadian Solar to Provide a 75 MW/ 300 MWh Energy Storage System to the Mustang Solar Project in California
Canadian Solar Inc. (the "Company", or "Canadian Solar") (NASDAQ: CSIQ), announced today that it has actually shut a supply contract as well as long-term solution arrangement with Goldman Sachs Renewable Power LLC, part of the Renewable Power Group of Goldman Sachs Asset Management (" Goldman Sachs"), to provide and also incorporate a 75 MW/ 300 MWh lithium-ion battery storage remedy right into the 100 MWac Mustang solar plant in California.
Oct 19, 2020 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, Storage, California, USA, Canadian Solar, North America, PV Power Plant, Shawn Qu
EDFR obtains 4.5 GWac solar properties profile from Geenex
EDF Renewables North America (EDFR) has actually completed the procurement of nearly 4.5 GWac of solar property portfolio located throughout the Pennsylvania, Jersey, Maryland (PJM) area in the United States from Geenex Solar (Geenex).
Oct 19, 2020 // Markets & Finance News, USA, North America, Georg Veit, EDF Renewables North America, Geenex, Hanson Wood
EDF acquires 4.5 GW US solar pipeline, targets more development in PJM market
EDF Renewables North America has acquired a pipe of more than 20 US solar possessions from project designer Geenex Solar, amounting to more than 4.5 GW of ability.
Oct 19, 2020 // Plants, Large-Scale, USA, PJM, EDF, North America, project acquisition, geenex solar, Georg Veit
Bifacial panels likely to stay exempt from Section 201 tariffs
US President Donald Trump's plan to reverse the exemption for bifacial panels within Section 201 profession tariffs look readied to be warded off once more.
Oct 19, 2020 // Markets & Finance News, Tariffs, USA, Donald Trump, North America, section 201, regulation, bifacial exemption, import tariffs, bifacial tariffs
American Tower turns on solar plant to provide Brazil fiber grid
Telecommunications infrastructure firm American Tower has begun utilizing a solar plant constructed by Brazil's CGC Energia to supply its neighborhood fiber networks.
Oct 16, 2020 // Plants, USA, North America, PV Power Plant, American Tower, CGC Energia, Tom Bartlett
TransAlta Announces Commercial Operation of Alberta's First Utility Scale Battery Storage Project
TransAlta Renewables has introduced that its 10 MW WindCharger battery storage space project (WindCharger) started industrial procedure on October 15, 2020. WindCharger is Alberta's very first utility-scale, lithium-ion energy storage space project and makes use of Tesla Megapack technology.
Oct 16, 2020 // Storage, Canada, ENERGY STORAGE, North America, battery storage projects, Storage Project, TransAlta Renewables, WindCharger, John Kousinioris