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Gov. Pritzker celebrates northern Illinois’s 100th community solar project
Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker joined Reactivate and ComEd in Chicago Heights to announce the 100th community solar site in northern Illinois, which will serve low-to-moderate income ComEd customers, and is one of the first community solar sites located in a Cook County environmental justice community. The solar farm, Verduin, is planned to be placed in service by the end of December. ...
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Iowa's Largest Solar Garden Comes Online
Alliant Energy's Iowa energy company continues its move toward a clean energy future by placing Iowa's largest solar garden in service. The record-breaking site is one of two new solar energy resources from Alliant Energy. As of late September, customers started getting solar energy from the five-megawatt West Dubuque Solar Garden, which is now the state's largest and most powerful individual ...
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FPL Announces Plans to Build Four New Solar Power Plants in 2019
Florida Power & Light Company (FPL) recently announced plans to build four new solar power plants this year that are expected to begin powering customers in early 2020: FPL Okeechobee Solar Energy Center, Okeechobee County FPL Hibiscus Solar Energy Center, Palm Beach County FPL Echo River Solar Energy Center, Suwannee County FPL Southfork Solar Energy Center, Manatee County "The ...
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SCIenergy Chosen as GoingGreen Silicon Valley Global 200 Winner, and Solutia Wins a Product Innovation Award - Energy Minute for November 26, 2012
SCIenergy, a provider of cloud-based energy management solutions for building owners and operators, has been chose by AlwaysOn as one of the GoingGreen Silicon Valley Global 200 winners. The award signifies leadership among its peers and game-changing technologies that creatively disrupt existing approaches to green technology. Solutia, a subsidiary of Eastman Chemical Company, has been ...
By 3BL Media
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Array Technologies accepts the 2019 Energy Innovator Award for Best Solar Solutions- Southern USA
Not all solar sites are created equal, and matching the precise needs of solar technology to the land it is developed on can be hugely challenging. With thirty years’ experience in the field of solar tracking, it’s no wonder that Array Technologies has managed to produce the best solar trackers under the sun. Following its well-deserved success in the Energy Innovator program, we ...
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Forum EURAFRIC LYON 2015- Water & Energy in Africa
ADEA has organised the 15th edition of EURAFRIC Forum- Water and Energy in Africa from 17th to 20th November 2015 at the Lyon Convention Centre. The objective of the Forum is firstly to promote the partnership between Europe and Africa in the areas of water, energy and renewable energy, and secondly to improve the competitiveness of businesses African and reduce poverty in Africa. The 2015 ...
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Alliant Energy Supercharges Battery Deployment
With major advances in the transition to creating safe, clean renewable energy generation, Alliant Energy recently announced plans to add 175 megawatts of battery storage in Wisconsin. The plan, filed this week (Sept. 30, 2022) with the Public Service Commission of Wisconsin, calls for battery storage facilities to be developed in Grant and Wood counties, alongside two previously approved Alliant ...
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Duke Energy Renewables more than doubles its North Carolina solar portfolio
The projects are located in the towns of Creswell, Everetts, Battleboro and Sunbury. Duke Energy Renewables has an additional 132 MW of solar energy under construction that is expected to be complete by year end. Phase II of the DC institutions’ solar project underway in Kelford and Whitakers will add 32 MW. And, work has begun on Duke Energy Renewables’ 80-MW site in Conetoe, the ...
By Duke Energy
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Solar Builder - Ameresco nears completion of Colorado’s largest solar + storage site for local cooperative
Colorado’s largest solar array and battery storage facility of its kind was the focus on Wednesday of a public ribbon-cutting celebration at Colorado Mountain College (CMC) Spring Valley at Glenwood Springs. The project is 95% complete and is scheduled to reach commercial operation this fall. The Solar Array and Battery Storage Complex at Colorado Mountain College Spring Valley is the ...
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Duke Energy begins construction on two new solar sites in north Florida
Solar projects in Bay and Madison counties add to the company’s growing renewable generation portfolio At peak output, each site will generate enough carbon-free electricity to power nearly 23,000 homes Duke Energy Florida today announced two new solar projects will begin construction later this month in Bay and Madison counties. The new projects are part of the company’s ...
By Duke Energy
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Lightsource bp announces a 1.4GW global purchase agreement with Array Technologies
Lightsource bp has entered into a purchase agreement with Array Technologies that will supply Lightsource bp’s newly developed solar portfolio of 1.4GW across the world with DuraTrack HZ v3 single-axis solar trackers equipped with plant optimizing SmarTrackTM technology. Once constructed and connected, this newly added solar capacity will generate enough combined renewable electricity to ...
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Eltek Passes 10,000 Hybrid-Solar Telecom Sites Installed
Eltek today announced it has installed more than 10,000 hybrid solar-grid power systems to remote telecom sites since it first launched hybrid-solar products in 2008. Solar power for telecom sites was once thought of only for off-grid telecom sites, but is now picking up momentum in a wide range of network locations. By using these hybrid solutions, which combine solar backup power and ...
By Eltek AS
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New educational website offers one-stop solar power resource
SMA America, Inc., the United States division of global solar technology giant SMA Solar Technology AG, has launched www.Solar-is-Future.com. This user-friendly, educational Web site explains how solar energy can be harvested and utilized via animation, illustrations and descriptions in easy-to-understand language. At Solar-is-Future.com, visitors can research the benefits of solar power and how ...
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Duke Energy Renewables Purchases One of the Largest Solar Projects in New York
Duke Energy Renewables is acquiring the 24.9-megawatt (MW) Shoreham Solar Commons project on Long Island from Invenergy. The project, currently under construction by Invenergy, is located in Brookhaven, New York, about 60 miles east of Manhattan. It is being built on the grounds of the former Tallgrass Golf Course and is expected to be complete in the second quarter of 2018. The Long Island ...
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Solar Gardens Growing in Minnesota
Seven new community solar gardens, totaling 32 megawatts, are now generating power from the Minnesota sun. The solar gardens are part of a larger project that will total approximately 96 megawatts throughout the Twin Cities metro area and greater Minnesota. Xcel Energy, BHE Renewables and Geronimo Energy are working together to bring the project online, giving Xcel Energy customers more solar ...
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Ameren Missouri Bringing Solar Generation to Neighborhoods Across the State
Ameren Missouri, a subsidiary of Ameren Corporation, is looking to spread solar generation across the state in a new way. As part of the Neighborhood Solar program made possible by a law passed by the Missouri General Assembly in 2018, Ameren Missouri will install solar generation facilities in parking lots, on roofs and in available open spaces across the state. Ideal partners in this program ...
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Dominion Virginia Power Proposes Community Solar Power Program
Dominion Virginia Power, in continuing its exploration of alternative energy technologies, wants to lease rooftops and grounds of commercial businesses and public facilities for electricity-generating solar panels. The panels would generate enough electricity to power about 6,000 homes during peak daylight hours. The initiative would be part of a multi-year program designed to help expand the ...
By Dominion
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Iron Mountain Announces the Largest Rooftop Solar Installation of Any Data Center in the U.S.
Iron Mountain Incorporated, a storage and information management company, announced recently that they have closed on their largest on-site solar power-purchase agreement (PPA) contract to date. The 7.2 MW-rated solar installation at Iron Mountain's data center in Edison, New Jersey (NJE-1) is forecast to generate more than 9 Million KWhrs per year, which is enough electricity to power more than ...
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UK Domestic Solar Achieves Growing Rates of Return Despite Reductions in Subsidy
Since the introduction of the UK's Feed in Tariff scheme in 2010, the market has seen a series of reductions in tariff rates from 41.3p/kWh to 14.38p/kWh. Over the same period, the cost of installing solar panels has dropped significantly and electricity prices have risen. The net effect is that the rate of return available from domestic solar panels in the UK is at a near record high and ...
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Saudi Arabia solar announcement
New Solar Today 20 April 2010 Saudi Arabia, the world's biggest oil exporter, plans to become an expert in another, cleaner field of energy by investing in solar power, the country's oil minister said in an interview ; 'For a country like Saudi Arabia ... one of the most important sources of energy to look at and to develop is solar energy,' Ali al-Nuaimi told French oil newsletter ...
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