By Kathie Zipp AlsoEnergy, provider of monitoring solutions, and skytron energy, European monitoring and control provider, have partnered to support for the companies’ combined 14 GW of solar PV assets under management. Providing complete monitoring, management and control solutions for PV power plants, AlsoEnergy has built a strong presence in North America while skytron has…
By Kathie Zipp Upton 2 solar power plant in Texas FlexGen, an energy storage integrator, announced that Vistra Energy, an integrated power company, awarded a contract to design and integrate a 10-MW/42-MWh FlexGen energy storage system at the Upton 2 solar power plant in Texas. When completed in late 2018, the energy storage system, using…
Leading integrated high-efficiency monocrystalline module manufacturer and ‘Silicon Module Super League’ (SMSL) member LONGi Green Energy Technology has won a bid to build a ‘Top Runner’ PV power plant of 250MW with partner, Three Gorges New Energy in Yijun County, Tongchuan City, China. Read Full Article Here For more great articles: PV-Tech
By Joshua S Hill The World Bank announced on Monday that it had approved $125 million in additional financing for the development and construction of the Noor-Midelt I and II solar power plants in Morocco, a combination solar concentrated solar power (CSP) and PV project which will have a total capacity of between 600 to…
By Tina Casey A new plan for saving the nation’s aging fleet of coal and nuclear power plants is going over like a lead balloon with FERC, but it ain’t dead yet Read Full Article Here For more great articles: Clean Technica
By [email protected] Members of the U.S. Senate’s energy committee may be split over the Trump administration’s plan to force Americans to buy power from uncompetitive coal and nuclear power plants — even if support is largely limited to senators representing coal states. But none of the five members of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission agree…
By Solar wakeup Soltec, a leading manufacturer and supplier of single-axis solar trackers and related services in large ground-mount PV projects, is supplying 2,776 units of its SF7 tracker equipment at an 86.2 MW PV power plant in northern Colombia’s Cesar department. The SF7 trackers will mount around 250,000 solar modules to follow the sun…
‘Silicon Module Super League’ (SMSL) member Trina Solar and building materials and PV systems developer China Singyes Solar Technologies Holdings have jointly secured a bid to build a 250MW ‘Top Runner’ PV power plant project in Tongchuan, Shaanxi province, China. Read Full Article Here For more great articles: PV-Tech
By [email protected] Coal has taken center stage publicly within the Trump administration. But solar is the real innovation star behind the scenes. This week, we’re talking with Charlie Gay, the director of DOE’s solar technologies office, about all the activity happening in the agency. We’ll discuss the solar power plants of the future: advances in…
By [email protected] A proposed solar-powered hydrogen storage facility has work to do to back up its big claims. Hydrogène de France (HDF) Energy’s French Western Guiana Power Plant would couple a 55-megawatt solar farm with hydrogen storage to deliver steady, clean power at any time of day. This process is supported by secondary storage in…
By Giles Parkinson World’s biggest solar tower power plant with molten salt storage has begun commissioning in Morocco, and is scheduled to begin production by October. Read Full Article Here For more great articles: Renew Economy
By Frank Andorka Former NRG Energy CEO David Crane By Frank Andorka, Senior Correspondent NRG Energy shed David Crane in 2015, blaming the company’s financial struggles on the former CEO’s decision to dive head-first into renewable energy and focusing on how consumers wanted to get their electricity instead of focusing on propping up the old…
By [email protected] Exelon Corp. President and CEO Christopher Crane praised the Trump administration Wednesday for taking action to shore up the nation’s economically distressed coal and nuclear power plants to ensure grid resilience and reliability. As utilities across the nation increasingly shift to natural gas and renewables, “getting the market design right and looking at…
Vistra Energy announced that the 180MW Upton 2 Solar Power Plant in West Texas has achieved commercial operation. The solar installation stands as Texas’ largest operating PV facility. Read Full Article Here For more great articles: PV-Tech
By mmillikin The US Department of Energy (DOE) will award up to $24 million in funding for 10 projects as part of a new Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) program: Modeling-Enhanced Innovations Trailblazing Nuclear Energy Reinvigoration (MEITNER). MEITNER teams will identify and develop innovative technologies that enable designs for lower cost, safer, advanced nuclear reactors….