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Siemens AG has signed a strategic cooperation agreement with Gamesa Electric to use Gamesa Proteus central inverters for PV and energy storage projects. The agreement between the two companies has a global reach, supplying equipment internationally from Gamesa Electric’s factories around the world, and will have an expected volume of GW scale per year. Under …

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Eguana Technologies today announced that full turnkey production and supply chain management is now underway at the Omega EMS facility in San Jose, California. Every stage of energy storage system production is active including circuit board, inverter and system assembly, and final functional testing with multiple Omega personnel trained at each station. The company, along …

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SolarEdge and its subsidiary Kokam Limited Company, a provider of lithium-ion batteries and integrated energy storage solutions, announced the opening of “Sella 2,” a 2-GWh battery cell manufacturing facility. Located in the Eumseong Innovation City of Chungcheongbuk-Do, South Korea, Sella 2 is currently producing test cells for certification, with ramp-up expected during the second half …

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Solar and storage project developer, EPC and O&M provider Borrego announced it will sell its development business (including an 8.4 GW solar/25-GWh storage pipeline) to ECP, an energy transition-focused investor. Upon the completion of the transaction, ECP will operate the development business as an independent company. The business will be headquartered in Lowell, Massachusetts, and …

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Honeywell has introduced its Experion Energy Control System’s new virtual power plant (VPP) functionality that enables users to dispatch a network of distributed energy resources (DERs) such as wind generating units, storage systems and solar projects through a centralized control process. By centralizing the dispatching process, users can optimize their operations and create sufficient capacity …

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A newly commissioned 500-kW solar project from Green Lantern Solar will bring thousands in clean energy savings to a local retirement community, Kingdom East Schools and the Village of Poultney in Weathersfield, Vermont. “While Green Lantern Solar continues to grow and expand, it’s always rewarding to complete a project in our home state with local …

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The U.S. Dept. of Energy (DOE) announced two awardees to manage the expansion of SolSmart — a program that has helped hundreds of communities remove red tape to increase solar deployment and expand access to clean energy. DOE also announced that more than 60 new communities accepted U.S. Secretary of Energy Jennifer M. Granholm’s challenge …

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CPS Energy, the largest municipally owned electric and natural gas utility in the United States, has reached agreement with Consolidated Edison Development for a 300-MW solar project to be located in Goliad County, Texas, as the first part of its FlexPOWER BundleSM initiative. The selection marks one-third of the utility’s goal of adding up to …

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The Dept. of Energy (DOE) has selected the American Council on Renewable Energy (ACORE) as a winner of the Inclusive Energy Innovation Prize, a “first-of-its-kind competition designed to support entrepreneurship and innovation in communities historically underserved in federal climate and energy technology funding.” The prize money will be used to enhance ACORE’s Accelerate Membership Program, …

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Multi-state utility Xcel Energy contracted Pivot Energy to develop a 41-MW community solar portfolio that will serve households beneath a certain income threshold. By offering affordable community solar subscriptions to income-qualified households, Pivot Energy will be able to service groups that have historically been left out of the clean energy transition and that face many …

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