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First Solar’s second supply deal in as many days will see the company expand its partnership with Silicon Ranch with a commitment four times greater than all previous supply deals between the two combined. April 12, 2022 Arizona’s First Solar announced that it has come to terms on a multi-year master supply agreement with southern …

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The Stony Knoll solar plant, the largest in Surry County, contains 76,600 bifacial modules manufactured by Trina Solar. The single-axis tracking, located on 195 acres in Dobson, North Carolina, will generate enough electricity to power approximately 5,000 homes. The 22.6MW facility will add to the state’s growing solar capacity. Currently ranked fourth in the nation …

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Raymour & Flanigan joins the trend of big box stores adding solar to their roofs, as it contracted three projects with a combined capacity of over 1.2MW with Greenskies Clean Focus. April 11, 2022 Raymour & Flanigan, a furniture giant, joins the trend of big box stores adding solar PV directly onsite to power its …

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US researchers have proposed the use of hydraulically fractured oil and gas wells to store renewable energy via compressed natural gas, with the levelized cost of storage potentially coming in at $70/MWh and $270/MWh. They said wells could also be used to store other renewable gases such as carbon dioxide or hydrogen in the future. …

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Also on the rise: Largest solar project in Wisconsin gets regulatory approval. Aspen Power to acquire 53MW of community solar projects from Trajectory Energy Partners. 6K awarded $1.5 million Massachusetts manufacturing grant to fund battery recycling equipment. Solar anti-circ investigation may not be determined by Commerce until late August, said ROTH.

The community solar portfolio includes a project with an historic church, another project with a non-profit foundation working to preserve a historic site, and an installation on a reclaimed former coal mine in Clearfield County, Pennsylvania. April 8, 2022 Aspen Power Partners, headquartered in Texas, announced that it is acquiring 53MW of community solar projects …

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The project ties another for the largest in capacity in the state and it is set to include a 165MW battery energy storage installation. April 8, 2022 State regulators have given the go ahead to Invenergy to construct the largest solar project, or at least tied for the largest project, in the state’s history, a …

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Also on the rise: Recurrent Energy sells Gaskell West solar-plus-storage projects to Matrix Renewables. Designs, control strategies for PV-integrated shading devices. EagleView high-resolution aircraft imagery-enabled platform may cut solar sales to install by two weeks. Fronius releases solar design tool. 250MW solar project planned for former West Virginia coal mine.

While New York has become a national solar leader, projects of this size are unprecedented in the Empire State. April 7, 2022 Regulators in New York have given their approval for Excelsior Energy Center, LLC, a subsidiary of Next Era Energy, to construct  a 280MW solar energy farm on 3,443 acres in the town of …

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The Gaskell West 2 and 3 project is located in Kern County, California, and is fully contracted holding five long-term power purchase agreements with cities and utilities in California. April 7, 2022 Matrix Renewables, the TPG Rise-backed global renewable energy platform, today announced an agreement to acquire the Gaskell West 2 and 3 project of 105MWac …

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