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DOE Aims Nearly $3.5 Billion Toward Progressive Grid Projects

The U.S. Department of Energy is putting $3.46 billion toward 58 projects across 44 states to strengthen electric grid resilience and reliability across the...

Qcells Georgia Solar Facility Now at 5.1 GW of Manufacturing Capacity

Qcells has completed its Dalton, Ga., factory expansion, adding 2 GW of solar manufacturing capacity and bringing the factory’s output to more than 5.1...

Alltrade Using FLEXRACK by Qcells Equipment for Alberta Solar Projects

FLEXRACK by Qcells and Alltrade Industrial Contractors Inc., a Canadian renewable EPC and construction services company, have partnered on a 182 MW portfolio of...

FirstEnergy Needs RECs for Ohio Operating Utilities

FirstEnergy Corp. has issued an RFP to purchase Ohio-compliant renewable energy credits (RECs) for its Ohio subsidiaries - Ohio Edison, The Illuminating Company and...

Southern Power Buys 350 MW of Solar Under Construction in Texas, Wyoming

Southern Power, a wholesale energy provider and subsidiary of Southern Company, recently acquired two solar facilities: the 200 MW Millers Branch Solar Facility in...

SEIA and Partners Balancing Boom in Solar with Need for Conservation

Major solar developers, conservation groups, agricultural organizations, environmental and environmental justice groups, and tribal entities have announced an agreement to advance large-scale U.S. solar development while...

SunVest Energizes Two Illinois Community Solar Projects

SunVest Solar has finished two new community solar projects in DeKalb, Ill., officially marking the start of electrical production at the facilities. The DeKalb projects...

TVA, Origis Energy Kick Off Trio of Mississippi Solar Projects

Origis Energy and the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) say construction has begun on the first of three projects in Mississippi with a total capacity...

New York Power Authority Issues Solar RFP

The New York Power Authority (NYPA) is seeking developers to implement solar photovoltaic arrays and/or battery energy storage systems at four sites in Warren...

DSD Completes 6.5 MW Solar Portfolio with Caesars Entertainment

DSD Renewables has completed a 6.5 MW solar portfolio for Caesars Entertainment at the gaming company’s Atlantic City destinations. The installations are across two different...

GoodWe Debuts Utility-Scale String Inverter

GoodWe, a provider of solar products and energy solutions, has launched its new three-phase 1,500 V utility string inverter, the UT (320/350 kW). The inverter...

NYPA Creates and Fills New Renewable Project Development Role

The New York Power Authority (NYPA) has named Vennela Yadhati vice president of renewable project development, tasked with leading the drafting of a 2025...

ComEd: From 837 Solar Installations in 2016 to 49,000 Today

Illinois investor-owned utility ComEd says more than 51,000 distributed energy resources (DER) were connected to grid as of September, including more than 49,000 residential...

Origis Energy Completes Trio Of Florida Projects

Talquin Electric Cooperative, Seminole Electric Cooperative and Origis Energy have completed three new solar facilities totaling 7 MW AC: Hinson Solar (4 MW), Gadsden...

FTC Solar Supplying Pioneer 1P Trackers to Nebraska Project

FTC Solar Inc., a provider of solar tracker systems, software and engineering services, has been selected by Sandhills Energy to supply its Pioneer 1P...

Massachusetts Superfund Site Transformed into Solar Array

Standard Solar has completed a 4 MW solar array at an EPA Superfund site in Woburn, Mass., that was once ranked as the fifth-most...

Duke Energy Closes Sale of Commercial Distributed Generation Portfolio

Duke Energy has completed the sale of its commercial distributed generation portfolio to an investment fund managed by ArcLight Capital Partners LLC, a middle...

National Grid Renewables Energizes 274 MW Solar Project in Ohio

National Grid Renewables has initiated operations at Amazon Solar Farm Ohio - Yellowbud, a 274 MW project located in Ross and Pickaway counties, Ohio. Located...

Castillo Engineering Launches Venture for Solar Letters, PE Stamps

Castillo Engineering has launched SolarLetters.com, an offering that fully automates structural letters, professional engineer (PE) stamps, and post-installation letters for residential solar installation companies...

New York Looking for Partner on 12 MW Solar Project

Gov. Kathy Hochul has announced the auction of New York state’s first "Build-Ready" project to advance large-scale renewable energy development across the state under...

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