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]
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.
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]
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Today the U.S. Bureau of Land Management (BLM) published final rules to govern leasing and rental rates for renewable energy projects on public lands. The final rules closely follow recommendations from the Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA) to streamline clean energy development on federal lands. The new rules will: Reduce rents and … [continued]
The space solar race is on, as research teams in the US, the UK and elsewhere around the world take a wacky idea and make it real.
New research finds farmers in Germany are receptive to making agrivoltaics part of their operations if policy makers will get out of the way.
A new eye-pleasing, biobased agrivoltaic racking system combines performance, functionality, and circularity.
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]
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]
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]
