The merge stands to be the largest pure-play community solar acquisition in the U.S. March 11, 2025 Perch Energy and Arcadia’s community solar subsidiary announced plans to merge to create a new company with more than 1,000 solar projects under its management. The merge stands to be the largest pure-play community solar acquisition in the …
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An art installation’s bold and colorful floral patterns on a West Texas energy storage facility are a “nod to biological carbon sequestration and the importance of nature preservation.” March 10, 2025 Floral artwork is blooming across the facade of a West Texas energy storage facility thanks to a collaboration between Spearmint Energy and artist Sophie …
Ardagh Glass Packaging opened the doors to its 13 MW dc solar power facility, which will supply clean energy for Ardagh’s glass bottle factory in Madera, California. The power generated from the project, which is owned and operated by Longroad Energy, will account for about 20% of the glass manufacturing facility’s electricity demand. The solar facility, …
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The Darien Solar project in Wisconsin is now active, adding 250 MW of capacity to the grid. The project is large enough to serve the equivalent of about 75,000 Wisconsin households. The facility occupies about 2,000 acres spanning two counties. The facility was developed by Invenergy LLC, a global renewable energy developer with over 206 projects …
Zeitview says it doubled its growth to more than 200,000 assets inspected across 80 countries in 2024, serving the solar industry in procurement and construction stages through operation and maintenance. March 7, 2025 U.S.-based Zeitview, a specialist in visual artificial intelligence (AI) for critical infrastructure, announced a capital raise of $60 million that will help …
The 100 MW Kiowa County Solar Project in Southwest Oklahoma is operational. Savion told pv magazine USA that the project, which sits on 1,235 acres, incorporates more than 189,000 Canadian Solar bifacial solar panels on Nextracker trackers with Sungrow SG3600UD-MV inverters. The project will interconnect into an AEP substation and connect to the Southwest Power Pool. …
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A report from American Clean Power Association says the U.S. saw “a remarkable 33% increase over the previous record of 37 GW set in 2023.” March 6, 2025 Renewable energy “shattered records” in 2024, adding 49 GW of new capacity in the U.S., a new report from American Clean Power Association said. This accounted for …
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Groundswell, a 501c3 Washington, D.C.-based organization that builds community power through community solar projects, is seeking responses and expressions of interest from developers and operations & maintenance (O&M) providers in relation to its Southeast Rural Power Program. The organization was one of the recipients of the Environmental Protection Agency’s Solar for All Award, receiving approximately …
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From ESS News In California, Swedish company Eolus has sold the 100 MW/400 MWh battery energy storage system (BESS) it had been developing since 2019 to an unnamed buyer, and Arevon Energy Inc. closed a $258 million finance package for its 200 MW/400 MWh Peregrine Energy Storage project. Further east, SMT Energy has secured $135 …
Deals for 1.12 GWh of battery energy storage in the U.S. Read More »
The BESS will be a standalone lithium iron phosphate system that will charge up to 150 MW of electricity with a two-hour duration. March 4, 2025 Alabama Power announced plans to develop the state’s first utility-scale battery energy storage system (BESS) on the site of a former coal plant. The Plant Gorgas coal-fired plant generated …
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