June 28, 2023 | San Diego's Top Solar Company

DOE awards $1.2 million in funding for Energy Storage for Social Equity program

The U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Electricity (OE) has announced approximately $1.2 million in funding for four organizations as part of its Energy Storage for Social Equity (ES4SE) initiative. ES4SE is designed to empower disadvantaged communities to consider energy storage technologies as a viable path toward achieving their energy goals. “These organizations are fully engaged with ES4SE to find energy storage …

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Report: Clean energy jobs increased in every state in 2022

Industry / By Staff

Credit: Titan Solar Power The U.S. Dept. of Energy (DOE) has released the 2023 U.S. Energy and Employment Report (USEER), a comprehensive study designed to track and understand employment trends across the energy sector. As the private sector continues to announce major investments in American-made energy, the 2023 USEER shows that the energy workforce added …

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Newly formed Hawthorne Renewables pledges $250M in solar projects across U.S.

Projects / By Staff

The new kid on the block pledges to have the right stuff when it comes to U.S. solar development. Phoenix-based Hawthorne Renewables launched today with plans to develop $250 million in solar projects over the next few years. The newly established solar development company is backed by significant industry experience and capital. Hawthorne Renewables is the …

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NV Energy, NextEra and Leeward among winning bids for gigawatts of solar in Nevada desert

Industry / By Staff

The Dept. of the Interior’s Bureau of Land Management (BLM) held an auction for utility-scale solar energy development in Nevada this week, resulting in $105.15 million in high bids. The auction of four parcels across 23,675 acres in the Amargosa Desert could support nearly 3 GW of renewable energy to the electrical grid. This is the …

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Summit Ridge, Osaka Gas enter joint venture to develop solar and storage projects

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Commercial solar and energy storage company Summit Ridge Energy (SRE) has expanded its partnership with Osaka Gas USA Corp. (OGUSA), a subsidiary of Osaka Gas Co. Ltd., to construct, own and operate more than 100 MW of solar projects throughout the state of Virginia and 8 MW of energy storage systems in New York. The …

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Electric vehicle charging stations to quadruple in U.S. by 2027

Policy / By Staff

With a projected 18 million EV charging ports in the U.S. by 2027, range anxiety may soon become a thing of the past. June 28, 2023 According to the inaugural North American EV charging infrastructure monitor from Wood Mackenzie, President Biden’s goal of building out a national network of 500,000 EV chargers will be far …

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Empower Energies builds multi-structure 7.6-MW solar project in Ohio

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Empower Energies has completed construction of a 7.6-MW solar installation for a Fortune 100 client at a commercial office park in Columbus, Ohio. Credit: Empower Energies The project, designed and constructed by Empower Energies, includes a solar canopy across several parking lots as well as rooftop solar atop four and five-story buildings. Both elements of …

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Is your project underperformance caused by trackers?

Installation / By Staff

In a perfect world, trackers in solar installations track the sun and perfectly minimize row to row shading; however, this is not always the case, as described in examples in which trackers deviate from the idealized tracking angles, go offline and stow down due to high wind speeds. June 28, 2023 Solar projects around the …

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Statewide RPS platforms require 300 TWh of clean energy by 2030, 800 TWh by 2050

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Renewable portfolio standard policies require total non-hydro renewables generation to reach 28% of electricity sales by 2050 compared to 17% today, according to a Berkeley Lab report. June 28, 2023 Roughly half of all growth in U.S. renewable energy generation and capacity since 2000 is associated with state renewable portfolio standard (RPS) requirements, although that …

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50 states of solar incentives: Hawaii

Installation / By Staff

Hawaii is the eighth smallest state by land area, but with 1.4 million residents, it ranks 13th in the country by population density. The 50th U.S. state has just 10,931 square miles of land mass, with sloped volcano ridges not ideal for sprawling utility solar development. However, Hawaii, or the Aloha State, has embraced the …

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