ArcLight Capital Partners subsidiary Infinigen Renewables is partnering with FlexGen Power Systems to bring a 32 MW solar and 15 MW BESS, located in the Yabucoa Municipality of Puerto Rico, online.  The project is set to utilize FlexGen’s HybridOS energy management system platform and digital controls. “This project expands our current fleet in Puerto Rico […]

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The U.S. Bureau of Land Management (BLM) says the Sunlight Storage II BESS project is now fully operational, adding an additional 300 MW of energy storage to the Desert Sunlight Solar Farm in Riverside County, Calif., and bringing the project’s total energy storage capacity to 530 MW.  “BLM-managed public lands play a critical role in […]

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Entergy Texas has contracted its first solar resource, the 150 MW Umbriel Solar facility located in Polk County, Texas, selected through a renewables-focused RFP. “Generating electricity from renewable resources plays an important role in building a cleaner energy future, and Entergy Texas is seeking ways to diversify its generation portfolio and support the growing energy […]

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Arevon Energy has signed a long-term tolling agreement with MCE for 188 MW of the Cormorant Energy Storage Project, a 250 MW stand-alone BESS set to be constructed in two phases in Daly City, Calif.  The first 188 MW phase is scheduled to begin construction at the start of next year and is anticipated to […]

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Avangrid has received its final shipment of solar panels to the True North project site, a 238 MW solar farm under construction near Waco, Texas. “We are thrilled to have reached another major construction milestone at True North, which is set to become Avangrid’s largest solar facility and our first in Texas,” says Pedro Azagra, […]

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ArcLight Capital Partners’ subsidiary Infinigen Renewables is partnering with FlexGen Power Systems to bring a 32 MW solar and 15 MW BESS, located in the Yabucoa Municipality of Puerto Rico, online.  The project is set to utilize FlexGen’s HybridOS energy management system platform and digital controls. “This project expands our current fleet in Puerto Rico […]

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The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has released a new roadmap outlining solutions toward speeding up the interconnection of clean energy onto the nation’s transmission grid and clearing the existing backlog of solar, wind and battery projects seeking to be built.  The Transmission Interconnection Roadmap, developed by DOE’s Interconnection Innovation e-Xchange (i2X), is meant to […]

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The U.S. Bureau of Land Management (BLM) has announced that the Sunlight Storage II BESS is now fully operational, adding an additional 300 MW of energy storage to the Desert Sunlight Solar Farm in Riverside County, Calif., and bringing the project’s total energy storage capacity to 530 MW.  “BLM-managed public lands play a critical role […]

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Burns & McDonnell has been named EPC contractor for two Alliant Energy solar projects in Iowa: the 150 MW Wever project in Lee County and the 50 MW Creston project in Union County.  The company is set to provide fully integrated services for the projects.  “We are excited to build on the momentum of the […]

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GRS, Gransolar Group’s solar EPC contractor, has announced commercial operation of the first stage of the 125 MW Amazon Solar Project Wandoan that it built with Vena Energy.   The project is located 400 km northwest of Brisbane and is a part of a 1 GW multi-staged renewable energy development in the Western Downs local government […]

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Stuttgart-based Zentrum für Sonnenenergie- und Wasserstoff-Forschung Baden-Württemberg (ZSW) and First Solar have formed a strategic research partnership focused on advancing thin film PV.  The partnership will focus both on performance and the potential to develop and optimize all-thin-film tandem technologies on a gigawatt scale. ZSW, a research institute with a focus on thin film PV, […]

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Origis Energy has closed on a $136 million construction financing facility and conversion to term loan with MUFG for its Rice Creek Solar project under construction in Putnam County, Fla. Rice Creek Solar, a 75 MW PV solar facility project the company says is nearing completion, is contracted by the Florida Municipal Power Agency (FMPA) […]

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