From pv magazine’s ESS News North Carolina-based renewables developer Strata Clean Energy has secured a 20-year tolling agreement which will see utility Arizona Public Service (APS) charge and discharge electricity from a Strata 100 MW/400 MWh BESS near Avondale, in Maricopa County, Arizona. The White Tank Energy Storage project, awarded a contract under APS’ call …
We need every tool in the toolkit to improve grid reliability, and we need them now, RMI’s managing director, Mark Dyson, told the pv magazine USA Week audience. November 13, 2024 Virtual power plants (VPPs) are an aggregation of small-scale distributed energy resources including solar energy systems, electric vehicles (EVs), EV chargers and demand response …
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Solar stocks have shed value following the Trump election, but residential solar provider Sunnova chief executive officer John Berger said believes the market is misunderstanding the strength of the industry under the Trump administration. November 13, 2024 In the trading day following the announcement that Donald Trump was elected U.S. president in the 2024 election, …
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The Global Solar Council says global installed photovoltaic capacity has surpassed 2 TW. The organization says an additional 4 TW of solar capacity will likely be deployed by 2030. November 13, 2024 From pv magazine Global The Global Solar Council is celebrating the historic achievement of reaching 2 TW of global installed PV capacity. While …
Thirty years in the making, but now the site of a former circuit board recycling facility is now generating 7 MW of solar energy and providing power to 960 subscribers. November 12, 2024 Nautilus Solar Energy announced the opening of the 7 MW Sanford CGA Community Solar Project located on a remediation site in Sanford, …
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Analysis by LandGate shows that Pennsylvania has 562 MW of solar power operating, with 10,469 MW waiting in queues. November 7, 2024 Land development marketplace LandGate released data through Q3 2024 on the state of the Pennsylvania solar market. It found that Pennsylvania has 46 solar facilities combining for 562 MW of capacity. There are …
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Mary Powell, chief executive officer of major U.S. residential solar installer Sunrun delivered a keynote address on the promise of distributed energy during pv magazine USA week this October. November 4, 2024 The electric power grid is built on an over 100-year-old business model that focuses on delivering power from a centralized source to many …
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The financing includes a $125 million tax credit sale for Gemini, one of the largest solar-plus-storage facilities operating in the U.S. November 4, 2024 Primergy Solar, a developer, owner and operator specializing in utility-scale solar PV and battery storage projects across the U.S. announced the closing of $225 million in project financing for its Valley …
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PV data consultancy Wiki-Solar says the world’s top solar developers have added nearly 50 GW of new solar capacity since early 2023, raising their cumulative capacity to 146.7 GW – more than one-fifth of the global total. November 4, 2024 From pv magazine Global The world’s top 27 utility-scale PV developers installed 48.6 GW of …
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Oregon-based company said iron flow batteries can be a “fast response” storage technology. October 30, 2024 Oregon-based flow-battery developer ESS Inc. says it is learning from its existing deployment projects to scale up and modify its long-duration energy storage (LDES) technology to meet a wider variety of requirements. The combination of safety inherent in its …
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