Texas

Lightsource taps BP and major banks to finance 260MW PV project in Texas
Lightsource BP has actually employed its oil significant backer BP and also several of the globe's biggest financial institutions to fund a huge utility-scale solar project in Texas, with strategies to provide the plant by year-end.
Mar 19, 2020 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, Markets & Finance News, USA, Texas, solar pv, Lightsource BP, North America, hsbc, natwest
Plus Renewable, Avondale Solar to Offer 350 MW Solar Project
Plus Renewable as well as Avondale Solar have actually participated in a contract to offer their passions in a 350 MW solar PV project in Fort Bend County, Texas
Mar 19, 2020 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, Markets & Finance News, USA, Texas, North America, International, Christian Skakkebaek, Avondale Solar, Plus Renewable Technologies
Texas perovskite business gets to 18% performance with its ink-based solar cell procedure
Hunt Perovskite Technologies (HPT), a Dallas, Texas-based perovskite product developer, got to a turning point in the advancement of a highly-durable perovskite modern technology for the manufacture of inexpensive published solar batteries.
Feb 12, 2020 // Technology, USA, NREL, Texas, perovskite, North America, Hunter Hunt, Hunt Energy, Michael D. Irwin, Joe Berry
Mercedes-Benz partner with Hydro-Québec for solid-state battery development
The luxury car maker is banking on the timely advancement of market-ready solid-state batteries. Mercedes will work with the Canadian research institute to rapidly incorporate brand-new technology into field applications to cut development cycle times.
Feb 5, 2020 // Technology, Storage, USA, Canada, France, Texas, Europe, North America, Mercedes-Benz, Jochen Hermann
RWE brings first Texas PV project online
RWE Renewables has reached commercial operation on its West of the Pecos PV project, located in Reeves County, Texas.
Jan 7, 2020 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, USA, Texas, North America, rwe renewables, Silvia Ortin
Innovative Solar introduces two solar projects with total capacity of 425MW
Innovative Solar Systems offers 2 Texas-based utility-scale solar projects for immediate acquisition. The first array is located in Fisher County and has a generation capacity of 125 megawatts. The second project with a 300-megawatt capacity is in Jones County.
Dec 11, 2019 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, Markets & Finance News, USA, Texas, Engie, North America, innovative solar systems
Innergex Renewable Energy commissions 250MW PV project in Texas
Innergex Renewable Energy has commissioned the 250MWac / 315MWdc Phoebe PV project located in Winkler County, Texas.
Nov 21, 2019 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, USA, Texas, Innergex, Michel Letellier, North America, shell
Ørsted to build 460-MW solar+storage project in Texas
Ørsted has commenced construction on the company’s first utility-scale solar plus battery storage project, the 460-MWAC Permian Energy Center. The facility is located in Andrews County, Texas, and will come online in mid-2021.
Nov 14, 2019 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, Storage, USA, UTILITY-SCALE SOLAR, Jinko Solar, Texas, JA Solar, North America, Ørsted, Henrik Poulsen, Declan Flanagan, Permian Energy Center
ENGIE starts deploying the 225 megawatt capacity Long Draw project
ENGIE is launching a 225-megawatt solar project in cooperation with Long Draw Solar. The Texas-headquartered energy company is going to serve four cities in the state of Texas as well as their energy providers through the Power Purchase Agreement signed for the above solar project.
Nov 7, 2019 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, USA, Texas, Engie, North America, Long Draw Solar
SB Energy to acquire over 1.7GW PV portfolio from Intersect Power
SB Energy Global Holdings, a subsidiary of SoftBank Group, has signed off on a deal with Intersect Power that will see SB Energy acquire a portfolio of five US PV projects with a combined capacity of more than 1.7GW from Intersect.
Nov 1, 2019 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, California, USA, Texas, North America, Intersect Power, sb energy, Raman Nanda, Marcelo Claure
Wells Fargo will power its 400 Texas locations with solar
Wells Fargo has signed a 10-year structured power purchase agreement (PPA) with Reliant, an NRG Energy, to power the bank’s 400 Texas locations with PV solar.
Oct 17, 2019 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, USA, Texas, North America, Wells Fargo, NRG Energy, Richard Henderson, Robert Gaudette
Cubico closes finance on 162MW Texas solar project to power Starbucks
London-headquartered investor Cubico Sustainable Investments has achieved financial close on the 162MW Wagyu solar PV project in Brazoria County, Texas, the US.
Oct 16, 2019 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, USA, Texas, North America, cubico, corporate ppa, hsbc, starbucks, bp, res, nord lb, rabobank, Oliver Alexander
Hopes rise that proposed solar farm will transform former Sunnyside landfill site
A proposal to turn the site of a former landfill near Houston’s Sunnyside community into the largest urban solar farm in Texas has local officials and residents hopeful that change may finally be coming to a site that has been an eyesore for decades.
Oct 4, 2019 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, Residential, USA, TESLA, Texas, North America, Sunnyside, Houston, Nathanael Greene, Tracy Stephens, Efrem Jernigan
Google taps Hecate’s Texas PV project to feed global clean energy drive
Google has signed a deal for 250MW of solar energy from installations planned in Texas by Chicago-based developer Hecate Energy.
Oct 2, 2019 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, Markets & Finance News, USA, Power Purchase Agreements, Texas, Engie, Microsoft, North America, Google, corporate ppa, honda, hecate energy
The ballooning potential of curved solar cells
Researchers in the U.S. claim to have developed a manufacturing process based on the use of a latex balloon that could lead to the production of more efficient curved electronic devices, including hemispherical solar cells.
Sep 27, 2019 // Technology, USA, Texas, Colorado, North America, flexible PV, hemispherical solar cells