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Renewables designer as well as driver Leeward Renewable Energy has actually signed power acquisition agreements (PPAs) with telecom company Verizon for a portfolio of four under-development solar and also wind plants in the US with an incorporated capacity of 640MW.

The average price of forecasting errors in the US is less than previously assumed at less than US$ 1/MWh, according to a research by Berkeley Lab that utilized a new, openly available approach to check out the method.

If 2021 was a defining year for clean hydrogen, hang on to your hats for 2022. Electrolyzer sales are projected to quadruple this year-- driven by the Chinese, U.S. and also European markets-- and also clean hydrogen demand from industry is set to go beyond usage in autos several times over. Meanwhile, taking advantage of investor enthusiasm, a flurry of hydrogen business will go public this year, and greater than 20 nations are anticipated to release a national hydrogen approach.

Toronto-based renewables designer Amp Energy has closed on a US$ 350 million credit facility to bear down a worldwide profile of renewables and also battery energy storage assets.

US solar installer SunPower is to be struck by a splitting issue uncovered in connectors associated with equipment mounted in some business as well as commercial (C&I) projects, causing costs of around US$ 31 million.

California-based Nitricity has actually produced a speculative activator that produces affordable as well as environmental nitrogen fertilizers using solar energy. Their on-site fertilizer manufacturing eliminates the emissions of fertilizer transport as well as gives a sustainable alternative to the Haber-Bosch process, which makes use of fossil fuels to take care of nitrogen.

Mississippi authorities have broadened the state's net metering programme to enhance complete payment rates for solar consumers and prioritise the fostering of distributed PV for low- to moderate-income (LMI) households.

US domestic solar lender Dividend Finance is to be gotten by Ohio-based banking company Fifth Third.

Independent power producer (IPP) Cordelio Power has protected a 900MWac pipeline of solar projects in New york city and also Pennsylvania from project programmer SunEast Renewables.

Inflation hits as energy markets face green transition.

Berkshire targets 100% renewable energy for Iowa consumers Proposal also includes a plan to research new technologies

President Joe Biden thinks he can win support for the energy and also ecological campaigns included in his Build Back Better (BBB) Act, saying he is confident of obtaining "big chunks" of the US$ 1.75 billion legislation authorized into regulation.

Innovative Solar Systems (ISS), a utility-scale solar programmer with a 12GW pipe, has actually put itself up for sale as it looks for companions to support the firm in its advancement of ever bigger PV projects throughout the United States.

US solar programmer 8minute Solar Energy has actually closed US$ 400 million in financing from institutional financier EIG to reinforce its US solar PV as well as energy storage pipeline.

Last month, a 7.45-MW community solar project in China, Maine went online and has begun to feed clean energy right into the Central Maine Power utility grid. This is the fourth community solar project that PowerMarket, an employee-owned community solar management company and SunRaise, a New England solar developer, proprietor and also operator, have partnered on in Maine.