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Month: March 2024

Burns & McDonnell finalizes 9-project, 764-MW solar portfolio

Burns & McDonnell has completed engineer-procure-construct (EPC) and self-perform construction services for nine solar projects across Wisconsin. The projects — part of Alliant Energy’s Clean Energy Blueprint — will power approximately 170,000 homes in their first year of production. The 50-MW Bear Creek solar project. Burns & McDonnell Burns & McDonnell started construction on these …

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Booming U.S. energy storage installation grows 90% year-over-year

Lowered costs, easing supply chains and steady demand continued the energy storage boom, said a report from Wood Mackenzie. March 20, 2024 In its latest Energy Storage Monitor report, Wood Mackenzie outlined the continued trend of rapidly increasing battery energy storage deployments across the U.S., with data through Q1 2024. Across all segments, the U.S. …

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US installs more grid-scale energy storage in 2023 than ever before

The U.S. energy storage market reached a new deployment high in the final quarter of 2023, with 4,236 MW installed — a 100% increase from Q3, according to a new report from Wood Mackenzie and the American Clean Power Association. The latest “U.S. Energy Storage Monitor” report shows that grid-scale energy storage deployment exceeded 3 …

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Schneider Electric and Mainspring offer multi-fuel microgrid solution

New hybrid energy technology combines Schneider Electric’s EcoStruxure Microgrid Solution and the design-build services offered by Mainspring’s Linear Generator. The result is a fuel-flexible solution for commercial and industrial customers looking to decarbonize. A microgrid is a self-contained electrical network that generates electricity on site by a fuel source such as solar and stored for …

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Can’t blame IRA | Prevailing wage requirements have no impact on large project costs

Solar labor costs are high and rising, driving “astronomical” bids from EPCs, but market fundamentals, not the IRA’s prevailing wage requirements, are to blame, experts told Solar Builder Magazine. The IRA requires all laborers and mechanics employed by a developer or subcontractor constructing, altering, or repairing a solar project over 1 MW to be paid …

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Sunrise brief: Slowing residential solar growth continues into 2024

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Ameresco building 165-kW solar + storage project on Indiana vocational school

Ameresco, a clean technology integrator specializing in energy efficiency and renewable energy, and Matchbook Learning Schools of Indiana will host a groundbreaking ceremony for The Match High School on Wednesday. This school will serve grades 9 through 12 and will feature a state-of-the-art facility for vocational learning and early career exploration. In 2023, Matchbook Learning …

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San Diego Community Power signs on for 200 MW / 800 MWh energy storage

Arevon Energy is developing the project for the community choice aggregator. March 19, 2024 Arevon Energy announced it has entered a 15-year energy storage agreement with San Diego Community Power (SDCP), providing a 200 MW / 800 MWh standalone energy storage facility to the community choice aggregator (CCA). The Avocet Energy Storage Project is located …

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Infinity Rack engineers watertight, modular solar canopy

Infinity Rack, an American producer of solar canopy structures based in North Carolina, has developed a modular building-integrated PV (BIPV) framing system. The patent-pending design works with any framed solar panel to create a mechanically watertight solar roof. Infinity Rack is currently shipping the roofing system as well as its proprietary modular structures: the SunLounge …

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Quino Energy’s unique water-based flow battery design progresses closer to full manufacturing

Quino Energy, a company developing water-based organic flow batteries, has achieved manufacturing readiness level (MRL) 7 for its battery active material pilot production line. This designation confirms that the line is ready for low-rate initial production of Quino Energy’s proprietary quinone battery active material, a key component of commercial and grid-scale flow batteries. The pilot …

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