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Invenergy Starts Building 240-MW Pleasant Prairie Solar Project in Ohio
Invenergy breaks ground on the 240-MW Pleasant Prairie Solar Energy Center in Franklin County, Ohio, investing USD 230 m and creating 300 construction jobs.
Jun 16, 2025 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, USA, Invenergy, North America, Ohio, PV Power Plant
22-MW Rawhide Prairie solar project with 2-MWh Tesla battery financial institution currently online in Colorado
After acquiring the project in September 2020, Greenbacker Renewable Energy Co. (GREC) has introduced that the Rawhide Prairie Solar + Storage space project has actually been commissioned in Colorado. The 22-MW solar project has a 2-MWh Tesla battery pack on site. This is the initial solar + storage space project for GREC.
Apr 1, 2021 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, Storage, USA, TESLA, Charles Wheeler, North America, Solar Project, Platte River
New cooperation will certainly recover prairie land under Sacramento County solar project
EPRI and also the Sacramento Municipal Utility District (SMUD) released a new collaborative project that aims to restore prairie land as well as pollinator habitat under solar arrays and also along various other portions of 20 acres of land at SMUD's Rancho Seco site in Sacramento County, California. The corrective power project is at the site of a decommissioned nuclear power plant and part of indigenous tribes' ancestral lands. It also supports SMUD's 2030 Zero Carbon Plan.
Dec 16, 2022 // Plants, Markets & Finance News, USA, North America, PV Power Plant, smud, EPRI, Sacramento Municipal Utility District
Swinerton breaks ground on 200-MW National Grid solar project in Illinois
National Grid Renewables, that includes the renewables growth company previously known as Geronimo Power, revealed the begin of construction on the 200-MW Prairie Wolf Solar Project in Coles County, Illinois.
Feb 24, 2021 // Plants, Grids, USA, North America, Solar Project, Eric Hoegger, David Reamer, George Hershman, Wes Humphres
Huge solar projects are back in the United States
The variety of 100 MW-plus solar projects is swiftly raising in the U.S. And if there's one solar sector that can weather a pandemic, it's utility-scale photovoltaics.
Apr 29, 2020 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, USA, Geronimo Energy, First Solar, North America, baywa r.e., Origis Energy, ConnectGen, Caton Fenz, PV power plans, Belltown Power Texas
Desert Sunlight project in California to include 300 MW of storage
The United States Bureau of Land Management (BLM) on Friday issued a notice to wage building and construction for 300 MW of extra energy storage capacity at the Desert Sunlight Solar complex in California.
Jun 5, 2023 // Storage, California, USA, North America, PV Power Plant, Desert Sunlight
Sunlight Financial protects 2B in solar funding through increased collaboration with Tech CU
Sunlight Financial has actually revealed that Tech CU, a Silicon Valley-based lending institution, has dedicated to money an additional virtually $2.5 billion in property solar and storage space systems sold and also installed by Sunlight partners over the following three years, broadening upon a long-lasting collaboration in between Sunlight and Tech CU that started in 2015.
Mar 22, 2021 // Residential, Markets & Finance News, Storage, USA, New York, North America, Tech CU, Matt Potere, Sunlight Financial, Todd Harris
Sunlight Group bags US$ 290 million in finances
Greece-based battery maker Sunlight Group has received EUR275 million (US$ 290 million) in car loan funding to expand production and study.
Jun 27, 2022 // Manufacturing News, Markets & Finance News, Storage, Greece, Germany, Europe, lithium-ion, loans, gigafactory, Sunlight Group
Bloomberg Partners with Ørsted for Largest US Solar Project
Ørsted's largest solar project in the US, the Mockingbird Solar Center, will provide Bloomberg with renewable energy to cover 100% of its US electricity usage and 80% of global usage, while preserving native prairie and boosting the local economy.
Jan 19, 2024 // Markets & Finance News, USA, North America, Ørsted, PV Power Plant
Denmark's Ørsted to Develop Mockingbird Solar Center in Texas
Ørsted has taken a final financial investment choice (FID) on 471 MW Mockingbird Solar Centre.
It will certainly donate 1,000 acres of tall grass prairie to The Nature Conservancy (TNC) for the purpose of conservation.
Jan 16, 2023 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, Markets & Finance News, clean energy, USA, Texas, North America, The Nature Conservancy, Orsted, Mockingbird Solar Center, Daniel Willard, final investment decision, Mockingbird Solar Centre, Smiley-Woodfin Native Prairie Grassland, Texas solar power plant, TNC
"Sunlight to Fuel" From Air, Plastic Waste
This revolutionary technology by the University of Cambridge helps convert carbon dioxide, plastic waste, and industrial exhaust into sustainable fuels and valuable chemicals. Reduce emissions and eliminate reliance on oil and gas with the carbon dioxide utilization for a zero-carbon future.
Jun 21, 2023 // Technology, University of Cambridge, CO2, Erwin Reisner
Materials scientists discover why perovskite solar cells degrade in sunlight
Materials researchers at the UCLA Samueli School of Engineering as well as colleagues from five other universities all over the world have discovered the significant reason that perovskite solar cells-- which show excellent assurance for improved energy-conversion performance-- degrade in sunlight, causing their performance to suffer over time.
Mar 16, 2022 // Technology, USA, solar cells, perovskite, North America, University of California, efficiency, Yang Yang
Capstone takes in the Alberta sunlight
The 132MW Claresholm solar farm is offering power to TC Energy and also the Canadian district's wholesale power pool
Apr 19, 2021 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, Markets & Finance News, Canada, North America, obton, Capstone Infrastructure Corporation, solar farm, Mikkel Berthelsen, Corey Hessen
Lightsource bp opens funds for 368 MW of solar projects in US
Lightsource bp has protected USD 460 million (EUR 424.7 m) in financing to sustain the building and also procedure of two utility-scale solar farm projects in the United States, the UK-based solar energy specialist stated on Thursday.
Jun 2, 2023 // Markets & Finance News, USA, Lightsource BP, North America, Solar Project
A 3000km Odyssey Across Australia Powered By Only Sunlight
Has there ever before been a solar endurance rally such as this one? Not on your life. Forty 4 solar-powered autos from 20 nations went into the 2019 Bridgestone World Solar Challenge (BWSC), a 3000 kilometres (1,875 miles) endurance rally throughout the red continent from Darwin to Adelaide with the center of Australia, and also less than half the autos completed.
Apr 29, 2020 // Transport, USA, Japan, Canada, Saudi Arabia, Sweden, Germany, UK, Italy, China, Australia, Europe, Asia, Oceania, Netherlands, North America, Turkey, Bridgestone World Solar Challenge, Chris Selwood










