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Avangrid Selling Stakes In Arizona Facilities

Avangrid Renewables LLC has reached an agreement with Axium Infrastructure to sell stakes in Arizona wind and solar facilities. Avangrid plans to transfer 50% ownership...

Duke Energy Targets Net-Zero Carbon Emissions By 2050

Duke Energy has announced an updated climate strategy that includes a new goal of net-zero carbon emissions from electric generation by mid-century. The company...

Nexamp Rolls Out Storage Projects In Northeast

Nexamp has deployed its first energy storage projects, representing more than 51 MWh of capacity. These six projects are located across sites in New...

Virginia Lays Out Carbon-Free Power Plan With Solar, Wind Targets

Gov. Ralph Northam, D-Va., has signed an executive order focused on bringing Virginia to carbon-free energy by 2050. Executive Order No. 43 lays out Virginia’s...

Quinbrook Infrastructure Partners Expands Houston Team

Quinbrook Infrastructure Partners - a global investment manager focused exclusively on lower-carbon and renewable energy infrastructure investment and operational asset management in the U.S.,...

U.S. Utility Solar Pipeline Balloons To New High

The U.S.' utility-scale solar PV market saw 11.2 GW of new projects announced in the first half of 2019, bringing the utility PV pipeline...

Solar FlexRack Touts Successful 2019

Solar FlexRack, a division of Northern States Metals and a provider of photovoltaic mounting and solar tracker solutions, expects to close more than half...

IKEA Partner Ingka Group Invests In U.S. Solar

Ingka Group, a strategic partner in the IKEA franchise system, has reached an agreement with Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners (CIP) to acquire a 49% stake...

First Project Completed Under CT’s Community Solar Pilot

The first project under Connecticut’s Shared Clean Energy Facility Pilot Program has been energized, Ameresco has announced. Ameresco is the owner of the 2...

California Proposes Actions To Address Grid Reliability, Low-Carbon Future

The California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) has proposed new actions designed to address reliable electric service while ensuring that California continues to make progress...

Lawmakers Propose Bill To Make Solar More Accessible For Low-Income Families

U.S. Sens. Tammy Duckworth, D-Ill., and Cory Booker, D-N.J., leaders of the Senate Environmental Justice Caucus, have introduced legislation designed to make solar energy...
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Habitat For Humanity Builds Solar-Powered Home In Chicago Area

Habitat for Humanity Lake County is building a new solar-powered home for a single mother of four in Waukegan, a suburb north of Chicago. The...

RPI Researchers Work On Real-Time Analysis Of Grid Data

With support from the National Science Foundation (NSF), a team at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) is developing software to enable real-time analysis of power...
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‘Virtual Battery’ Reduces Demand Charges, Increases ROI For Commercial Solar

Extensible Energy has released DemandEx, an inexpensive “virtual battery” designed to reduce demand charges and increase ROI for commercial solar projects. The Software as...
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A New Economic Reality: Renewable Energy Is Now Cost-Competitive With New Gas

The economics guiding U.S. investments in electricity generation have reached a historic tipping point: Combinations of solar, wind, storage, efficiency and demand response are...
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Fifteen Community Solar Farms Completed In Minnesota

CleanChoice Energy has announced that construction is complete on a 20 MW portfolio of community solar farms in Minnesota. The portfolio consists of 15...

Sony Pictures Adding Solar To California Studio Lot

Sony Pictures Entertainment (SPE) has announced a commitment to generate solar electricity at its studio lot in Culver City, Calif. The 1.6 MW SunPower project...

174 Power Global Closes Construction Financing For Texas Solar

Irvine, Calif.-based 174 Power Global has closed construction financing for the $210 million, 150 MW first phase of a solar project near Odessa, Texas. Credit...

L.A. Moves Forward On ‘Historically Low-Cost’ Solar And Storage Center

The Los Angeles Department of Water and Power's (LADWP) board of commissioners has voted to approve power purchase agreements (PPAs) for the Eland Solar...
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Three Solar Projects Come Online In Hawaii

Clearway Energy Group, in partnership with Hawaiian Electric Co., Kamehameha Schools, Moss Solar and others, has brought online three grid-scale solar power projects on...

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