The Piedmont Environmental Council tests agrivoltaics in Loudoun County, Virginia, with 42 solar panels to explore coexistence of solar and crops.| Latest Renewable Energy Updates, Trends & Insights
EPC companies face diverse risks in solar projects, requiring financing certainty and compliance with domestic content regulations to succeed, writes contributor Brandon Childers, President, IGS Solar.| Renewable Energy Business & Market Trends
The Trump administration has pulled the plug on its review of a massive joint solar project in Nevada that would have added up to be one of the largest continuous solar farms in the world – at least as it was envisioned.| Commercial & Utility-Scale Solar News & Insights
Enel North America has partnered with Hives for Heroes on an agrivoltaics program benefitting veterans as Vesper Energy adds to its flock tending Hornet Solar.| Commercial & Utility-Scale Solar News & Insights
TotalEnergies is selling a 50% stake in its North American solar portfolio and acquiring a 49% interest in natural gas assets in Oklahoma.| Factor This™
Utilities including Dominion Energy, Georgia Power, and Xcel subsidiary SPS are seeking proposals for clean energy projects, despite waning federal sentiment.| Latest Renewable Energy Updates, Trends & Insights
Natural gas was pitched as a stopgap between fossil fuels and renewables. Instead, it has derailed the state’s energy transition.| Commercial & Utility-Scale Solar News & Insights
With better data and smarter tools in hand, resilience is achievable — regardless of whether you're developing a 5 MW community solar project or a 200 MW utility-scale site, writes Adrienne Peters, Technical Planning Manager at DSD Renewables.| Commercial & Utility-Scale Solar News & Insights
Meta Platforms has signed four contracts with Invenergy for 760 megawatts of solar power slated to come online over the next couple of years.| Factor This™
Catalyze adds community solar, Enel inks PPAs, Jupiter Power celebrates a Michigan BESS; Fourth Power, Nexamp, and Sol Systems raise funds.| Renewable Energy Business & Market Trends
Octopus Energy Group has formally announced the spin-off of its technology company Kraken, as the platform’s annual revenue reaches $500 million, growing by four times over 3 years.| Power Grid: Transmission & Modernization
Arevon Energy, Enel Green Power North America, Heron Power, and Lightshift Energy have made major announcements this week.| Factor This™
In a viral post, Energy Secretary Chris Wright says a planet-sized solar panel would only produce 20% of global energy.| Factor This™
Common Charge aims to address ongoing energy affordability and reliability crises by leveraging the power of distributed assets.| Factor This™
Plus, Biden's trade war, killing coal, and oil wells for solar energy storage.| Factor This™
Developers have already added 12 GW of utility scale solar in the U.S. so far in 2025, with another 21 GW planned by the end of the year.| Factor This™
Construction is slated to commence in November as materials have begun to arrive on-site, with full grid connection expected in late spring 2024.| Factor This™
D3Energy has officially launched construction on a 6 MW floating solar system for the Village of Monroeville.| Factor This™
The New York Times reports the Trump administration is drafting termination letters to claw back $7 billion in Solar for All grants.| Factor This™
Solar generation projects can benefit from optimizing cable management, which can improve design and lower costs.| Factor This™
A study of nearly 1,000 solar arrays built on 10,000 acres of the Central Valley over the past two decades found that solar power and farming are complementing each other in farmers’ business operations.| Factor This™
One project is one of the largest single-site solar installations approved, while the other will include a 50 MW battery energy storage system.| Factor This™
This latest PJM capacity auction shows new rules of capacity accreditation work for fossil resources but not renewables and demand response.| Factor This™
After failing its last quality test, REC Silicon will cease polysilicon production and transition into a pure-play silicon gas producer.| Factor This™
Despite delays, REC Silicon says it still expects to ramp up to full production capacity by the end of the year in Moses Lake, Washington.| Factor This™
The nation put up 357 gigawatts of solar and wind, a 45% and 18% increase, respectively, over what was operating at the end of 2023.| Factor This™
A new report aims to quantify the financial ripples of utility-scale solar, wind, and battery storage in Texas.| Factor This™
A bill that would empower Wisconsin municipalities to block the construction of solar and wind farms in their backyards has been introduced a second time.| Factor This™
When complete, the 674 MWdc / 500 MWac utility-scale Cider Solar Farm will be the largest solar project in the state of New York.| Factor This™
While other states allow solar companies that own arrays to provide power directly to customers, in Wisconsin, the question has been tied up in legal battles for years.| Factor This™
Editor's Note: It is my pleasure to announce that noted industry commentator Fred Lyon will be sharing his views on the power industry in a periodic column in Power Engineering titled Power Points.| Factor This™
The state went a record 98 of 116 days providing up to 10 hours of electricity with renewables alone.| Factor This™
Manufacturers should consider seeking Section 48C Advanced Energy Project Credit allocations, recently provided by the Inflation Reduction Act.| Factor This™
Sol Systems has started construction on a $345 million, 182-megawatt solar project on a reclaimed subsurface mine in Illinois.| Factor This™
Power players Amazon, Google, and Microsoft are rapidly expanding renewable portfolios to offset a data center-driven increase in energy use.| Factor This™
Duke customers could subscribe to new, utility-owned solar energy facilities, pay a monthly subscription fee, and receive a bill credit.| Factor This™
Seeking power for AI data centers, major tech companies have contrasting views on the best way to mitigate their environmental impact.| Factor This™
This order provides Nexamp access to 1.5GW of modules that will be produced at Heliene’s Minnesota facility.| Factor This™
The sunshine state is also predicted to take over as the top-ranked residential solar state in 2028.| Factor This™
Agricultural and solar trade groups will convene to develop comprehensive standards for dual land use, or agrivoltaics.| Factor This™
The CALNEXT Center for Solar Energy Research will feature a leading-edge research program and a planned state-of-the-art solar test field.| Factor This™
CBP has reviewed more than 11,300 shipments since June 2022 to combat the introduction of forced labor into U.S. supply chains.| Factor This™
Hemlock Semiconductor, one of the world's only producers of hyper-pure polysilicon, will build a new manufacturing facility in Michigan.| Factor This™
The program is set to install solar panels to power nearly a million low-income households over the next five years.| Factor This™
NYSERDA has executed contracts for 23 large land-based renewable energy projects with enough capacity to power 700,000 New York homes.| Factor This™
A behind-the-meter 105 MW solar array and 160 MWh of battery energy storge will help power a scrap metal recycling steel rebar mill.| Factor This™
Offtaker San Diego Community Power will use the Vikings project to shift low-cost daytime solar energy to higher-cost peak demand periods.| Factor This™
Pivot Energy has secured a $450M debt warehouse facility and closed on a new project joint venture supporting community solar projects.| Factor This™
A new report suggests fixing generator interconnection processes could result in $100 billion in economic benefits and create jobs.| Factor This™
RWE is acquiring a majority interest in R3 Renewables LLC, a joint venture launched by Peabody, a coal mining company.| Factor This™
A coalition of counties and townships contends the Michigan Public Service Commission is trying to rewrite parts of the state's siting law.| Factor This™
Storage and timed release of electricity through the use of large-scale energy storage systems could reduce how much energy we waste.| Factor This™
This Week in Cleantech is a new, weekly podcast covering the most impactful stories in cleantech and climate in 15 minutes or less.| Factor This™
A team at Argonne National Laboratory set out to develop a camera system that could continuously monitor how birds behave around solar panels, using AI.| Renewable Energy World
The new plan anticipates adding no new coal-fired generation while building as many as four new natural gas-fired plants plus battery storage systems for solar energy.| Renewable Energy World
Today the USDA announced more than $3 billion in New ERA financing intended to decrease electricity prices in rural communities nationwide.| Renewable Energy World
Duke Energy's Green Source Advantage (GSA) program provides large nonresidential customers the opportunity to offset their power purchases by securing renewable energy from new projects connected to the local Duke Energy grid.| Renewable Energy World
A new report shows Alaska gets just 2.6% of its retail electricity from renewable resources and lags nationally in clean energy development.| Renewable Energy World
Google will purchase 90 megawatts of renewable energy from ENGIE's forthcoming Chillingham solar project located north of Austin, Texas.| Renewable Energy World
The data includes hourly solar, onshore, and offshore wind production published at a county granularity by aggregating 3 km data for the contiguous United States.| Renewable Energy World
Section 45X provides incentives for solar and energy storage manufacturers across the supply chain, including manufacturers that produce solar cells, solar modules, inverters, trackers, and more.| Renewable Energy World
The California Energy Commission is reviewing a pair of projects proposed by Intersect Power subsidiaries that each feature 1.15 GW solar arrays and up to 1.15 GW of battery energy storage.| Renewable Energy World
The number of suitable land parcels for renewable energy projects is "rapidly shrinking," and developers who delay risk being left with fewer, less desirable options, according to a new analysis from Paces, a data and software provider.| Renewable Energy World
PacifiCorp's Arco Wind and Solar in southeast Idaho will have more than 300 megawatts of combined wind, solar, and storage capacity.| Renewable Energy World
Leaders from the energy, water, IIoT, and smart cities industries will assemble for Itron Inspire 2024 to tackle challenges facing utilites.| Renewable Energy World
Two recent BloombergNEF reports show wind and solar represented more than 90% of new power capacity additions in 2023.| Renewable Energy World
Lightsource bp's 188-megawatt Honeysuckle Solar has a PPA with Google to power its forthcoming $2 billion data center campus in Fort Wayne, Indiana.| Renewable Energy World
According to a new report from Mercom Capital Group, corporate solar funding is down more than 20% compared to last year through Q3 2024.| Renewable Energy World
Hurricanes Milton and Helene devastated infrastructure in the southeast, but Sunnova says 98% of its rooftop solar systems were unaffected and D3Energy reports no damage to its floating solar installations.| Renewable Energy World
This Week in Cleantech is a new, weekly podcast covering the most impactful stories in cleantech and climate in 15 minutes or less.| Renewable Energy World
Virginia's data centers promise to strain the grid, necesitating renewable generation amidst the commonwealth's transition to clean energy.| Factor This™
Duke Energy's Lake Placid Solar Power Plant in Highlands County, Florida sustained a direct hit from a tornado ahead of Hurricane Milton.| Renewable Energy World
SolarPanelRecycling.com employees have been collecting and delivering goods to needy communities in Western North Carolina and beyond.| Renewable Energy World
Nearly 80% of the plan's power generation over the next 15 years is carbon-free, including 3,400 MW of offshore wind, and 12,000 MW of solar.| Factor This™
State residents are voting for three seats on the Arizona Corporation Commission, which has come under scrutiny for its continued support of fossil fuels and resistance to supporting more solar in the state.| Renewable Energy World
ERCOT says a software solution is a "reasonable compromise" to concerns over adding ride-through abilities for inverter-based resources.| Renewable Energy World
Texas Solar Sheep Company will deploy more than 6,000 four-stomached grazers to feast on 10,100 acres of land used for solar production.| Renewable Energy World
Alaska has become the 25th state to enact community solar legislation, and IRA-driven investment in renewable projects could soon follow.| Factor This™
