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REC Solar Saves California School District Millions Through Innovative Solar Energy Solutions
REC Solar, a subsidiary of Duke Energy Renewables, is working with the Pleasanton Unified School District in Pleasanton, Calif., to utilize solar plus energy storage solutions to significantly cut its emissions and save on energy costs. The project will include the installation of 1 megawatt (MW) of solar carports and a 660 kilowatt-hour (kWh) battery energy storage system at Pleasanton ...
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US Solar Job Numbers Decline for the Second Consecutive Year
In 2018, the U.S. solar industry lost jobs for the second year in a row, according to numbers reported by the nonprofit Solar Foundation on Tuesday. Employment in solar was down 3.2 percent over 2017, according to the organization’s 2018 Solar Jobs Census, an industry survey now in its ninth year. Since the “boom year” of 2016, the industry has shed 17,000 jobs. Though the ...
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GE Renewable Energy to Implement DC-Coupled Solar and Battery Energy Storage Hybrid System in Upstate New York
GE Renewable Energy announced recently (4/16) that it has reached an agreement with Helios Energy to deliver two energy storage systems to be integrated with solar arrays for the Lenox Solar / Energy Storage project in Lenox, NY. The hybrid system will be installed in upstate New York at the end of 2019 and is expected to reach commercial operation in the second quarter of 2020.The project will ...
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EDF Renewables N. America and Clean Power Alliance Sign Power Purchase Agreement
EDF Renewables North America (EDFR) and Clean Power Alliance (CPA) recently announced the signing of a 15-year Power Purchase Agreement for the Desert Quartzite Solar-plus-Storage project. The project, consisting of a 300 megawatt (MWac) solar project coupled with a 600 MWh battery energy storage system, is expected to begin delivery of clean electricity to CPA's customers throughout Los Angeles ...
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Energy Toolbase Integrates its Controls Software with BYD
Energy Toolbase has integrated its energy storage controls software with BYD (Build Your Dreams), a leader in battery and energy storage technology. As part of the integration, Energy Toolbase will add BYD to its sales and modeling platform, enabling renewable energy developers to seamlessly analyze and propose the economics of BYD energy storage projects, either standalone or paired with solar ...
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BrightSource Launches Next Generation Solar Field Technologies
BrightSource Energy, Inc., a leading concentrating solar power technology (CSP) company today announced advanced solar field technologies currently being deployed at the 121 megawatt (MW) Ashalim Solar Thermal Power Station located in Israel’s Negev Desert. The fourth generation of BrightSource’s solar field technologies features improvements to the heliostats, solar field ...
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Canadian Solar Subsidiary Recurrent Energy Completes Sale and Breaks Ground on the Slate Project, Expected to Be One of the Largest PV + Battery Storage Projects in the U.S.
Canadian Solar Inc. this week announced that its wholly-owned subsidiary, Recurrent Energy, completed the sale of the Slate project to Goldman Sachs Renewable Power LLC (GSRP). Revenue from the transaction will be recognized in Q1 2021 and commercial operation is anticipated in late 2021. The Slate project is a 300 MWac solar plus 140.25 MW / 561 MWh storage project located in Kings County, ...
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Enphase Energy and Sunpro Solar Expand Partnership to Include Battery Storage
Enphase Energy, Inc., a leading supplier of microinverter-based solar-plus-storage systems, recently (Sept 30) announced that Sunpro Solar, a rooftop solar provider and one of the fastest-growing residential solar-plus-storage service providers in the U.S., will now promote and install Enphase Encharge battery storage systems in addition to Enphase solar systems as its all-in-one home energy ...
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Introducing Humless Universal Energy Management
Humless today introduces its 48V Universal Energy Management (UEM). The Humless Universal is an energy storage system (ESS) that intelligently manages the flow of electricity from any source for any use. It integrates with any existing grid-tied solar system and works with any manufacturer’s panels, PV inverters, or batteries. Humless Universal enables simultaneous AC/DC Coupling and is ...
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Domaine Carneros Selects EDF Renewables North America for Solar and Storage Resilient Microgrid
EDF Renewables North America was chosen by the sparkling wine company, Domaine Carneros, to design, build, and operate a resilient solar photovoltaics and battery energy storage microgrid solution. The system supports Domaine Carneros' long-term financial and sustainability goals and is designed to island the entire facility during a power outage. The 250-kilowatt solar PV system will be a ...
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French Guiana Region to Install World's Largest Power Station with 140 MWH Renewable Energy Storage
Hydrogène de France (HDF Energy) has announced the launch of a world first in the history of renewable energy with the creation of its CEOG project (French Western Guiana Power Plant). According to the company, the project harnessed via HDF Energy's Renewstable® solution will deliver 100% clean, affordable and reliable power 24/7 - with no fluctuations and at reduced costs - to an area of more ...
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RMI Publishes Non-Wires Solutions Implementation Playbook for Regulators, Utilities, and Developers
Electric utilities increasingly can reduce their system infrastructure investments and save customers money by employing non-wires solutions (NWS) —portfolios of distributed energy resources (DERs) like solar photovoltaics, energy storage, energy efficiency and demand response—to cost-effectively meet growing grid needs, according to a report released recently by Rocky Mountain ...
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Governor Cuomo Announces $30 Million to Support Modernization of New York's Electric Grid
New York Governor Andrew M. Cuomo recently (4/9) announced up to $30 million is available to support projects to improve the resiliency, flexibility, and integration of renewable energy resources onto New York's electric grid. Project proposals will be evaluated based on how they improve overall grid performance, reduce energy costs and support the state's nation-leading clean energy goals to ...
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Georgia Power Files Plan Preparing for Future Energy Landscape
This week, Georgia Power filed its 2022 Integrated Resource Plan (IRP) which sets forth a transformational roadmap for how the company will continue to meet the energy needs of customers, local communities and the State of Georgia for future generations. Filed with the Georgia Public Service Commission (PSC), the 2022 IRP outlines Georgia Power's plan to transition its fleet to more economical, ...
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