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200 Clean Energy Companies Urge Congress to Pass Siting, Permitting, & Transmission Reform Before 2024 Election

April 22, 2024 admin 0 Comments aes, batteries, clean power, Congress, edf renewables, electricity transmission, Energy Storage, federal public lands, lithium-ion batteries, permitting, press releases, public lands, seia, Solar energy, solar energy industries association (seia), solar on public lands, solar permitting, solar power plants, transmission, us solar permitting

Credit to Author: Press Release| Date: Sat, 20 Apr 2024 02:37:18 +0000

WASHINGTON, D.C. — [This week] nearly 200 solar and storage companies sent a letter to congressional leaders calling for legislation to improve permitting, project siting, transmission, and public lands access for solar and solar plus storage projects. Market forecasts show that a range of policy and economic outcomes will determine the volume … [continued]

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The Sun Shines in South America: Colombia & Brazil Give Large Boost to Solar Deployment

April 20, 2024 admin 0 Comments Brazil, brazil solar, chile, chile solar energy, chile solar power, clean power, cleantechnica, cleantechnica exclusive, cleantechnica reports, Colombia, colombia solar power, grid, hvdc, hvdc transmission, Solar energy, solar power plants, South America

Credit to Author: Juan Diego Celemín Mojica| Date: Wed, 17 Apr 2024 18:34:28 +0000

South America has a lot of sun and a lot of space, and solar energy has grown from a small player to the main driver of generation growth in several countries in the region (making their already clean grids even cleaner). Today we look at the grids of Chile, Brazil, and Colombia, all of which have already made solar a cornerstone of their generation or are working to do so in the near future.

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Historic Milestones, New Actions for Clean Energy on Public Lands in USA

April 16, 2024 admin 0 Comments BLM, bureau of land management (blm), clean power, deb haaland, department of the interior (doi), Joe Biden, onshore wind farms, policy & politics, press releases, public lands, Solar energy, solar on public lands, solar power plants, wind energy

Credit to Author: Guest Contributor| Date: Fri, 12 Apr 2024 16:12:32 +0000

WASHINGTON — The Biden-Harris administration yesterday announced a series of historic milestones and actions to promote responsible clean energy development on public lands and help achieve President Biden’s goal of creating a carbon pollution-free power sector by 2035. Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland yesterday announced that the Department has … [continued]

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Sunrise Mountain Partners & CleanCapital Expand Development Activities

March 25, 2024 admin California, clean power, community solar, Connecticut, Ohio, press releases, Solar energy, solar power plants

Credit to Author: Press Release| Date: Fri, 22 Mar 2024 00:17:00 +0000

Sunrise Mountain Partners, a developer of renewable energy projects, announced this week a significant expansion of its strategic co-development partnership with CleanCapital. CleanCapital, a diversified energy company, is one of the top owners and operators of C&I and DG solar and storage projects in the U.S., having deployed over $1 … [continued]

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Lightsource bp Completes $348 Million Financing Package for Two Utility-Scale Solar Projects in Texas

March 18, 2024 admin clean power, lightsource, lightsource bp, press releases, Solar energy, solar power plants, texas, texas solar energy, texas solar power

Credit to Author: Press Release| Date: Fri, 15 Mar 2024 20:27:58 +0000

288 megawatts of new solar capacity will generate enough electricity to reliably power 50,000 homes Financing includes a suite of transferability facilities made possible by the Inflation Reduction Act Projects to bring additional energy security and diversification to the Texas electric grid Lightsource bp has successfully closed on a $348 … [continued]

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Green River Energy Center Quadruples Storage Capacity, Establishing Project as One of the Largest Solar + Storage Systems Under Development in the US

March 16, 2024 admin batteries, clean power, Energy Storage, lithium-ion batteries, pacificorp, press releases, Solar energy, solar power plants

Credit to Author: Press Release| Date: Thu, 14 Mar 2024 05:26:28 +0000

The project has a combined solar and storage capacity of 800-megawatts SALT LAKE CITY — rPlus Energies (“rPlus”), a leading privately held renewable energy developer, announced that its Green River Energy Center project recently amended its power purchase agreement (“PPA”) with PacifiCorp to quadruple the battery storage capacity from 400-megawatt-hours (“MWh”) to … [continued]

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Adani Green Energy Operationalizes 1,000 MW of the 30,000 MW Khavda Renewable Energy Park

March 15, 2024 admin adani group, clean power, India, press releases, Solar energy, solar power plants

Credit to Author: Press Release| Date: Wed, 13 Mar 2024 05:38:12 +0000

Fastest such greenfield solar capacity addition in India’s renewable sector Construction curve is aligned to the plan of developing 30 GW at Khavda over the next 5 years Plant will be entirely covered with waterless robotic module cleaning systems ~81 billion units will be generated powering over 16 million homes … [continued]

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Wyoming To Hitch A Ride On “Record-Shattering” US Solar Industry

March 9, 2024 admin brightnight, clean power, Energy, green economy, investment, Manufacturing, policy & politics, renewable energy, Solar energy, solar energy industries association (seia), solar industry, solar power plants, solar records, us solar industry, usa, utility-scale solar, Wyoming

Credit to Author: Tina Casey| Date: Wed, 06 Mar 2024 15:55:07 +0000

The US solar industry is celebrating another “record-shattering” year, despite concerns that more counties are blocking solar development.

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World’s Largest Rooftop Solar Power Plant To Be Built In Denmark

March 4, 2024 admin clean power, Denmark, dsv, rooftop solar, Solar energy, solar power plants, solar records, solarfuture

Credit to Author: Jesper Berggreen| Date: Fri, 01 Mar 2024 15:27:14 +0000

To be honest, I had never heard of the company SolarFuture before, but it certainly grabbed my attention when I … [continued]

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Insect Populations Flourish in the Restored Habitats of Solar Energy Facilities

January 29, 2024 admin Agriculture, agrivoltaics, argonne national laboratory, bees, bumblebees, clean power, enel green power, enel green power north america, Minnesota, national renewable energy laboratory (nrel), pollinators, Solar energy, solar power plants, us department of energy (doe)

Credit to Author: US Department of Energy| Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2024 12:01:09 +0000

Two solar facilities built on rehabilitated agricultural land were restored with native plants. Argonne researchers observed pollinators thrive. Bumblebees buzz … [continued]

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