There have been several announcements about big new solar power projects this past week. Rather than try to tackle them one at a time (that wasn’t going to happen), I’m running through them below in a combo story.
Solar is top of the list of cost-effective and sustainable energy options. The solar industry also creates long-term careers, bringing cleaner futures into the community, as well as the individual employees.
South Dakota dives into the solar energy pool while neighboring Wyoming struggles with carbon capture to keep coal power plants on life support.
Michigan’s Consumers Power has sparked a storm of protest over its inability to keep up with new solar requests for grid interconnection in its territory. Since the utility received over 2,400 interconnection applications in 2017 and 2018, compared with 215 in 2015, the increase in interconnection applications was “too substantial and too sudden” to cope with, it complained to the Michigan Public Service Commission.
Originally published on Sustainnovate. By Henry Lindon The Berkshire Hathaway Energy subsidiary BHE Renewables has purchased a 66 megawatt (MW) solar garden portfolio from Geronimo Energy, according to recent reports. This brings the BHE Renewables solar garden portfolio up to 100 MW — as the Warren Buffett owned company had … [continued]
The $250 million Aurora Solar Project has been approved by Minnesota state regulators. When completed, the project will increase the state’s installed solar capacity by 7 times, from 20 MW to 140 MW. Plans call for completion next year. Minnesota, which has been criticized a bit for unbalanced solar subsidies benefiting … [continued]
