Spearmint Energy has secured $252 million funding for a battery energy storage system (BESS) in Texas, Trina is supplying a 371 MWh BESS in Houston, EDF has sourced long-term funding for an operational site in California, and Strata and Power Sustainable Energy Infrastructure Inc. (PSEI) have broken ground on a solar-plus-storage project in Arizona. From …
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The 300 kW solar array will offset more than half its electricity use, with the battery energy storage system providing resilience in case of power outage. Ameresco completed a solar-plus-storage installation on the campus of Southwest Wisconsin Technical College. The $1.6 million project includes a 300 kW solar array, and a 125 kW / 220 …
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Wood Mackenzie cautioned that policy uncertainty could significantly alter its projections for solar industry growth. After years of record-breaking installation totals and double-digit growth, .growth in the U.S. solar industry is expected to be relatively flat over the next decade, said Sylbia Leyva Martinez, principal analyst, Wood Mackenzie at the company’s annual solar and energy …
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The ISO-NE region experienced two solar power output records in the past week, leading to a record-low demand for electricity from the power grid on Sunday afternoon. The duck curve arrived in New England in 2018, and this Easter weekend, behind-the-meter (BTM) solar was the primary driver of record-low electricity demand on the ISO New …
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The Dos Palos Clean Power project in Merced County is providing low-cost, clean energy to residents in disadvantaged communities. A joint project from Peninsula Clean Energy, a community-choice aggregation agency, and developer Renewable America, will generate 3 MW of solar power as part of Peninsula Clean Energy’s Green Access Program. The program provides income-qualified customers …
Ford’s 650 MW power purchase agreement remains the largest renewable energy purchase from a utility in the country to date. Ford’s 650 MW power purchase agreement (PPA) with DTE Energy, broke ground in Michigan with the procurement’s first project start of construction in Branch County, Mich. The 100 MW Cold Creek Solar Park is the …
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The battery system is expected to earn $80,000 per year by providing energy to the local utility during peak summer demand periods, while saving $57,000 per year by reducing the hospital’s own monthly and annual peak consumption. The Boston Medical Center, New England’s busiest trauma and emergency services center, installed a 572 kW, 1,271 kWh …
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NovaSource Power was selected as operations and maintenance provider to a 1.6 GW solar project in Indiana. Philadelphia-based developer Doral Renewables announced it has selected NovaSource Power Services as the operations and maintenance provider and generator-operator for the Mammoth Solar project in Indiana. Mammoth Solar, living up to its name, is one of the largest …
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Faith Technologies installed a 2.16 MW solar project on its facility’s roof using UL 3741’s approach to meeting the National Electrical Code. As an engineering, construction, manufacturing and clean energy company, Faith Technologies Inc. (FTI) developed the solar installation on its Kansas facility’s roof in-house. FTI built the 2.16 MW project by having its team …
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A Rural Energy for America Program grant helped a New England brewery become energy independent, yet future funding for similar projects remains uncertain. Blasty Bough Brewing Company in Epson, New Hampshire secured a Rural Energy for America Program (REAP) grant that enabled the brewery to install a 182-module, 87 kW ground-mount solar array that offsets …
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