By Kelly Pickerel Sungrow will supply its energy storage system to the 100-MWAC Chisholm Grid project in Fort Worth, Texas. Chisholm Grid has been under construction since August of 2020 and will be one of the largest energy storage facilities in Texas when work onsite is completed this June. The facility, which uses NMC lithium…
By WPED Staff Infrastructure and Energy Alternatives (IEA), an infrastructure construction company with renewable energy and specialty civil expertise, has been awarded a wind construction contract for the Shady Oaks II Wind Farm in Illinois. Algonquin Power & Utilities, a growing renewable energy and regulated utility company, awarded the project to White Construction, a subsidiary…
By WPED Staff The RWE Renewables portfolio in North America continues to expand as Boiling Springs, a 148-MW project, located in Woodward County, Oklahoma, has achieved commercial operation. The facility is RWE’s first project in the state and in the Southwest Power Pool. “Under very challenging conditions, our teams have delivered this project with outstanding…
By Joe Deely Long lead times for nuclear projects mean that projects which started construction in 2020 will be completed in the second half of the decade. Based on this, we have a good idea of what WW nuclear capacity will be in the late 2020s and can infer any growth in generation.Here is information…
By [email protected] Total has acquired a stake in India’s Adani Green Energy (AGEL), a move that continues to push the French oil major ahead of its European peers when it comes to renewables. AGEL has 3 gigawatts of operating renewable capacity, another 3 GW under construction and 8.6 GW in development, adding up to 14.6…
By National Wind Watch Indigenous reindeer herders are bringing a legal action against a proposed wind power project that would be one of the largest in Norway. The Sámi herders from Nordland county are accusing the Øyfjellet windfarm constructors of breaking licensing agreements which stipulated that construction would not interfere with reindeer migration paths. This…
By National Wind Watch A petition with over 1,200 signatures calling for work to be halted on the Viking Energy windfarm has been handed to the Shetland Islands Council. The motion has been handed in by Save Shetland, and has attracted 1,221 signatures. Group member Ernie Rameker said there was “great concern”, in the community…
By Kelsey Misbrener Pine Gate Renewables announced that it closed financing on a new 12-project fund of solar and solar + storage sites in North Carolina. The projects in the fund will sell power under long-term contracts to Duke Energy Progress, Duke Energy Carolinas and Halifax EMC. Crestmark, a division of MetaBank, provided the construction…
By Kelsey Misbrener Infrastructure and Energy Alternatives, an infrastructure construction company with renewable energy and specialty civil expertise, announced that it has been awarded a 100-MWAC solar contract to construct the Lumpkin Solar Farm in Stewart County, Georgia. Silicon Ranch Corporation, based in Nashville, Tennessee and one of the nation’s largest independent solar power producers,…
By WPED Staff Infrastructure and Energy Alternatives, an infrastructure construction company with specialized energy and heavy civil expertise, has been awarded a wind construction contract valued at approximately $100 million. Apex Clean Energy, who develops, constructs, and operates utility-scale wind and solar power facilities across North America, awarded the Lincoln Land project to White Construction,…
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By Kelsey Misbrener Kendall Sustainable Infrastructure placed 17 MW of new solar capacity online during the fourth quarter of 2020. The projects are a continuation of KSI’s leadership in building and owning distributed-scale solar power projects. KSI now owns 78 MW of solar power, with 50 MW online and another 28 MW in active construction….
By Billy Ludt Duke Energy Renewables is expanding its solar energy portfolio by acquiring the 144-MW Pflugerville Solar project from Recurrent Energy, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Canadian Solar. The project is under construction in Travis County, Texas, and is expected to achieve commercial operation in mid-2021. The energy generated from the Pflugerville Solar project will…
By Billy Ludt Distributed Solar Development (DSD) has acquired a two-project, 10-MW community solar portfolio in Lenox, New York. “This acquisition materially increases DSD’s New York community solar portfolio, which the company will continue to expand in 2021,” said Jon Morton, VP of acquisitions at DSD. Both projects are ground-mounted and were purchased 75% complete…
By Kelsey Misbrener Clearway Energy Group announced that it completed construction and reached commercial operation on the 192-MW Rosamond Central solar project in Kern County, California. Rosamond Central is contracted under PPAs with East Bay Community Energy and Clean Power Alliance, both Community Choice Aggregators providing a diverse range of power options to regional customers,…