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Altius Announces $32.5 million investments in RE platform
Altius' subsidiary Great Bay Renewables has actually carried out agreements to spend into a new international renewables development platform called Bluestar Energy Capital. Great Bay is likewise investing alongside another institutional financier for a minority equity ownership in Bluestar
May 9, 2022 // Markets & Finance News, Declan Flanagan, Renewable Energy, Lincoln Clean Energy, Apollo Global Management, Altius Renewable Royalties Corp, Bluestar Energy Capital, Frank Getman, Great Bay Renewables, Nova Clean Energy, Ørsted Onshore
Dynamic Energy constructing 6.6-MW solar array to power Maine grocery store chain
Dynamic Energy Solutions commenced construction of a 6.6-MWDC ground-mounted solar array in Norridgewock, Maine. The project includes a spots offtake contract with grocer Albertsons Companies, as well as it is just one of the largest business solar installations in Maine's solar market.
Aug 26, 2021 // Plants, Commercial, USA, North America, Dynamic Energy, John Conley
FERC rolls back 'anti-renewables' policy in PJM market
Renewables associations have actually welcomed rule adjustments in the US' largest electrical power market that are anticipated to cause more solar cleaning capability market public auctions while making it easier for states to achieve their tidy energy targets.
Oct 4, 2021 // Markets & Finance News, Policy, USA, SEIA, FERC, PJM, North America, ACORE, federal energy regulatory commission, earthjustice
DOE establishes new community solar target, requires 700% growth in 4 years
United States Department of Energy (DOE) secretary Jennifer Granholm has revealed a brand-new National Community Solar Partnership (NCSP) target to have community solar projects supply 26GW of power and also develop US$ 1 billion in bill cost savings by 2025.
Oct 12, 2021 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, Markets & Finance News, doe, solar targets, Jeff Cramer, Jennifer Granholm, Kiran Bhatraju
Sungrow Signs 500 MWac Contract For PV Inverter Solutions in Brazil
The contract is with Mercury Renew to Supply PV Inverter Solutions to the Helio Valgas Solar Park in Brazil. Sungrow has become a market leader in Latin America, crossing the 5 GW milestone last year.
Apr 1, 2022 // Inverters, Sungrow, International, brazil solar, Helio Valgas project, Mercury renew, Pedro Fiuza
SunPower Secures $1 Billion in Solar Plus Storage Financing
SunPower has actually revealed that a brand-new USD 1 billion collaboration with Tech CU will certainly boost funding choices for certified United States domestic solar consumers.
May 6, 2020 // Residential, Markets & Finance News, USA, SunPower, North America, SunPower Solar Financing, Tech CU, Norm Taffe, Deborah Crouch
First Solar backs carbon pricing for wholesale electrical power
First Solar has actually backed carbon rates in comments submitted to the U.S. Federal Energy Regulatory Commission. The firm likewise co-founded a global plan institute to sustain carbon prices as a "economical, fair as well as politically viable environment solution."
Jun 9, 2020 // Markets & Finance News, Policy, USA, First Solar, North America
Ikea spends extra in solar every day
The Swedish furnishings titan has stated it will turn among its Australian warehouse stores right into its first 100% renewables-powered solar+ storage space retail project. Australia is likewise residence to the firm's very first development of its retail solar offering, Solstråle.
Jul 2, 2020 // Markets & Finance News, Australia, Oceania, ikea
New PV cell architecture creates resistively bounded subcells
Solar Inventions, the winners of the initial American-Made Solar Prize, strategy to commercialize their newest product, which is declared to decrease silver web content and rise module power, while potentially saving makers approximately $1 million each year.
Aug 12, 2020 // Technology, USA, North America, Benjamin Damiani
Surrey is leading the way in perovskite tandem solar cells
Scientists from the University of Surrey have actually exposed the considerable renovations they are making in perovskite-based solar cells. Perovskite solar cells have revealed significant capacity within the effectiveness restriction of the extensively used solar cells currently on the market by soaking up light in a more comprehensive range of wavelengths.
Oct 19, 2020 // Technology, UK, solar cells, Europe, perovskite, University of Surrey, Ravi Silva, ATI, Wei Zhang, Hui Li
Solar Rooftop Leader Esdec Continues On Acquisition Trail In US, Acquires PanelClaw
Esdec, the global rooftop solar placing services company, announced the other day that it has acquired PanelClaw, the biggest vendor of solar installing systems for business roofs in the U.S. With the procurement of PanelClaw, Esdec increases its customer base as well as profile of products available to the growing industrial and commercial (C&I) solar market.
Nov 10, 2020 // Markets & Finance News, USA, North America, esdec, costa nicolau, PanelClaw, solar acquisitions, stijn vos
USA's Avangrid Developing Over 500 MW Solar Farms in Texas & Ohio
Both solar energy projects will cumulatively create 523.5 MW of clean and affordable power for the two US states. Real North solar farm of 321 MW is being established in Falls County, Texas.
Mar 16, 2023 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, avangrid, Renewable Energy, Iberdrola Group, Pedro Azagra, Powell Creek, solar farms USA, Texas and Ohio, Texas solar industry, True North solar project
Minerals company ICL To Invest $400 Million in Lithium Battery Materials Facility in United States
ICL was granted $197 million through the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law financing and the plant is expected to be operational by 2024. The manufacturing facility will have 2 assembly line and also each production line will certainly be capable of producing 15,000 metric lots of LFP product yearly.
Oct 21, 2022 // Markets & Finance News, department of energy, McCarthy, Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, cathode active material, Aleees, ICL, Lithium Iron Phosphate, minerals company ICL, Phil Brown
'A step in the wrong direction': United States utility-scale solar deployment fell 53% in Q2
US utility-scale solar installments in Q2 2022 were down 53% year-on-year as policy headwinds and trade concerns affected growth and raised the stockpile of postponed projects, a new report has actually disclosed.
Jul 28, 2022 // Plants, Large-Scale, Markets & Finance News, Policy, California, USA, PPA, Texas, Invenergy, North America, Indiana, deployment statistics, American Clean Power Association, AD/CVD
Ford Motors Signs 650 MW PPA With United States Energy Company DTE Energy
DTE will certainly raise the amount of solar energy set up in Michigan by about 70% by including 650 megawatts under its MIGreenPower initiative for Ford. Every Ford vehicle constructed in Michigan will certainly be put together utilizing the power that is 100% carbon-free by 2025, which is ten years earlier than Ford's worldwide target. By utilizing carbon-free electrical power, Ford will protect against approximately 600,000 tonnes of carbon dioxide emissions per year. The acquisition will aid Ford move closer to carbon nonpartisanship and also bring in jobs and tax money for Michigan.
Aug 15, 2022 // Markets & Finance News, clean energy, Solar Energy Industries Association, SEIA, Renewable Energy, International, green energy, dte energy, electric vehicle (EV) market, Ford Motors