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US distributed power system Scale Microgrids has accepted acquire greater than 100 MW of community solar projects in New York from Dutch clean energy developer CSG-Gutami.

CPS America announced at its 2023 Product Innovation Day that the CPS 250/275-kW three-phase string inverter obtained a 20% cost cut to start 2023. In a time of increasing costs, the CPS America team has actually applied innovative options to this flagship product to continue cost decreases as well as lower the rate without compromising on quality.

Renewable as well as clean power programmer Invenergy intends to partner with LONGi to support a 5-GW solar panel assembly factory in Ohio. Invenergy will certainly spend greater than $600 million with new venture Illuminate United States to get as well as develop out a 1.1 million sq-ft building in Pataskala, Ohio, approximately 20 miles east of Columbus.

The USA added 20.2 GW of new solar capacity in 2022, a 16% decrease from 2021. This was most likely attributed to an examination into new anti-circumvention tariffs by the U.S. Dept. of Commerce, as well as equipment detainments by Customs and also Border Protection under the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act.

After a successful 2nd financial investment round, North American photovoltaic panel supplier Silfab Solar can now formally introduce it is preparing to open up a 3rd U.S. solar module production center that will certainly additionally include solar cell production.

Michigan residents and businesses can decrease their utility expenses, enhance the state's energy grid, and also join Michigan's growing solar economic climate under bipartisan legislation introduced on March 7 by state Senators Jeff Irwin (D-Ann Arbor) and also Ed McBroom (R-Waucedah Township).

Generation Bridge LLC, an affiliate of power infrastructure financier ArcLight Capital Partners LLC, intends to replace an inactive oil tank farm in Oswego, New York, with an approximately 25-MW solar park.

To meet consumers' growing needs for renewable resource and support economic advancement in the state, Entergy Louisiana filed a request with the Louisiana Public Service Commission to authorize the purchase, building and construction and operation of virtually 225 MW of new solar energy sources.

Entergy Louisiana LLC, a unit people utility Entergy Corp (NYSE: ETR), is seeking regulatory approval to include near 225 MW of new solar energy resources to its power generation mix, it claimed recently.

Jackson County, West Virginia in the United States saw the top executives of 3 business on Saturday break ground on a project on more than 2,000 acres of land. BHE Renewables, a Berkshire Hathaway Energy organization, is establishing the home into a first-of-its-kind solar energy microgrid-powered industrial site.

Energy Toolbase and Nexamp have actually released a front-of-the-meter energy storage system as part of among Nexamp's solar + storage space projects in Massachusetts.

Duke Energy Florida will start building and construction on 2 new solar projects in the state later on this month. The projects, located in Bay as well as Madison counties, belong to Duke's community solar program, Clean Energy Connection. The projects must be finished by the end of the year, developing around 200 to 300 temporary jobs throughout that time.

West Virginia governor Jim Justice on Friday authorized a bill appropriating USD 105 million (EUR 99m) for a battery plant of Form Energy, a Somerville, Massachusetts-based company establishing iron-air battery modern technology that can store power for 100 hours.

Avangrid's 150-MW Lund Hill solar farm in Klickitat County, Washington, is now the state's largest solar PV plant. The facility is supplying Puget Sound Energy's Green Direct program, helping to reduce emissions and provide clean, reliable power to its customers.

President Joe Biden signed a proclamation to impose a 200% tariff on aluminum imports from Russia, citing threats to national security. This tariff will affect solar panel frames, racking, and structural mounts used in photovoltaic arrays.