By Kelly Pickerel Workflow management platform TrackVia is now streamlining the data collection processes of solar tracking installer RP Construction Services (RPCS) with custom-built software applications. These mobile-ready applications help RPCS collect and analyze job site data in real-time and with greater accuracy. With the help of Sol Rebel, a solar consulting services firm, RPCS…
By WebEditor Construction of 235MW Montana projects to begin next year Read Full Article Here For more great articles: reNEWS – Renewable Energy News
By National Wind Watch A proposed wind project is up against a squall of opposition in Boulevard where county planners are processing the first large-scale wind renewable energy project to be built on private land in San Diego. The San Diego County Planning Commission denied Friday a strongly-worded appeal from the Boulevard Community Planning Group,…
By National Wind Watch The state Board of Public Utilities released a draft of its proposed rules for offshore wind projects Friday, laying out what offshore wind energy certificates (ORECs) will pay for and how they will be funded. The ORECs will reimburse developers for the construction and 20-year operation of the wind farms that…
By National Wind Watch A few days after the new Conservative government introduced legislation last month to kill a major wind turbine project in Prince Edward County, a lawyer for the Ministry of the Environment and Climate Change was in court to defend the initial approval process. The Divisional Court panel dismissed the application by…
By Goldwind Australia Construction of the 48-turbine Cattle Hill Wind Farm commenced recently, with the project aiming to be fully operational in 2019. The project is expected to have up to 150 jobs on site during construction peaks on site and employ up to 10 permanent staff when operational. The post Cattle Hill wind farm…
By Frank Andorka By Frank Andorka, Senior Correspondent The latest solar bills in Illinois – an emerging market thanks to the Future Energy Jobs Act – hopes to balance farmer concerns about land use with the development of large-scale ground-mounted utility and small commercial projects. Under the legislation signed into law by Governor Bruce Rauner…
By Kelsey Misbrener Wells Fargo announced it has committed the capital in construction debt, as well as the tax-equity funding of $35 million for the new solar generation facility, known as FL Solar 5 in Orange County, Florida. This solar facility will include half a million solar panels and will also reduce greenhouse gas emissions…
By Kelsey Misbrener Governor Rauner has signed two bills that will help ensure solar development benefits farmers and rural communities in Illinois. The state’s solar industry worked with the Illinois Farm Bureau, local authorities and other stakeholders to shape SB 486, which creates a standard tax assessment value for solar farms in Illinois, and SB…
By [email protected] The island of Graciosa in the Azores is small, with just under 5,000 inhabitants and a peak load of just 3 megawatts. But what is taking place there could be an indication of an emerging trend that is about to recalibrate the entire global energy system. The isolated island in the middle of…
By Michelle Froese Xcel Energy celebrated the construction of its newest 150-MW wind facility in central North Dakota. The event featured local landowners, company representatives, U.S. Senator Heidi Heitkamp, and other state and local officials. Xcel Energy’s Foxtail Wind project will provide low-cost wind energy to nearly 80,000 homes when it’s completed next year. The…
By National Wind Watch The Town Trustees in East Hampton will continue to debate the potential landing of a wind farm cable in Wainscott next week, as Deepwater Wind, the offshore wind company proposing the South Fork Wind Farm roughly 30 miles off the coast of Montauk, announced last week it will begin a seafloor…
By Kelly Pickerel Coronal Energy announced plans for the construction of the Rankin Solar Center in Florence County, South Carolina. The new development is projected to bring approximately $15 million of capital investment. The Rankin Solar Center will generate 10 MW and is expected to come online in the fourth quarter of 2019. “The Rankin…
By Andrew Lee Pair to offer ‘mature European fabrication technology combined with local steel construction’ for emerging wind market Read Full Article Here For more great articles: www.rechargenews.com
By Offshore WIND Vineyard Wind officials have visited the site of the former Brayton Point coal-fired power plant as part of efforts to explore its potential role in the construction of the company’s 800MW offshore… [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] Read Full…