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Across data centers, commercial campuses and industrial facilities, the conversation around resilience is shifting dramatically. The old model of installing a generator here, a battery system there and perhaps some solar on the roof is no longer enough. These individual assets now operate together as part of hybrid microgrids that must run smoothly under increasingly volatile conditions. This ...
Puget Sound Energy (PSE) launched "Multi-Occupant Solar," a pioneering program that transforms how tenants of multi-unit buildings can access and benefit from solar energy. This groundbreaking initiative addresses a long-standing barrier in clean energy adoption by enabling customers to share in the advantages of on-site solar power where they ...
The innovative microgrid system, which integrates a 700kW solar photovoltaic array, a 500kW natural gas generator, and a 500kW lithium-ion battery system, will provide backup power to four groundwater wells on the range. ...
We are facing a global climate change crisis. This is becoming ever more evident, with record-high global temperatures, along with extreme heatwaves, unprecedented storms, and catastrophic wildfires. At IAIA24 in Dublin, speaker after speaker stressed the urgency of responding rapidly and effectively to the global climate crisis, especially by accelerating the energy transition from ...
“The report released this week confirms what counties have been seeing on the ground in our communities: that by working collaboratively with Governor Hochul and our state partners to invest in renewable energy, we can move toward clean energy independence and do our part it in the fight against climate change while creating jobs and strengthening local economies," said New York State Association ...
Standard Solar, a commercial and community solar developer and asset owner, announced this week the acquisition of a 5.7 megawatt (MW) solar project on a landfill in Pennsville, New Jersey, in partnership with Trinasolar Development Solutions LLC, Trinasolar International System Business Unit’s (‘ISBU’) American entity. ...
sonnen, a leader in smart energy storage and virtual power plant (VPP) technology and ES Solar, a contractor renowned for their leadership in establishing a grid harmonized VPP business model for solar and energy storage, this week announced initial results following the launch of their “Go Back” program, an innovative new VPP business model enabled by Rocky ...
These customers, predominately in the industrial, logistics, financial (portfolio owners/developers), automotive, commercial and government sectors, are split evenly between Europe and the U.S., with additional interest coming from the Asia Pacific region, Latin America, and Australia/New Zealand.Designed to produce energy independently or integrate seamlessly with existing solar ...
The program has lowered small business and farm energy bills by an average of $25,000 a year and provided enough electricity to power more than 630,000 homes over the course of a year.Example awards in Texas:TrueHarvest Farms LLC- a hydroponic leafy green farm located in Belton, Bell County, Texas will use a $849,911 grant to purchase and install a 616-kilowatt (kW) direct current (DC) ...
Primergy Solar and Quinbrook Infrastructure Partners announced this week that the Gemini Solar + Storage project in Clark County, Nevada is now fully operational. Gemini is the largest co-located solar plus battery energy storage system (BESS) project in the US.Primergy notes that Gemini’s 1.8 million solar panels can generate up ...
Alliant Energy has recently announced the successful completion of its Grant County Solar Project on May 30th. The solar array in Potosi, Wisconsin has a capacity of 200 megawatts and is capable of producing sufficient electricity to meet the annual power needs of over 50,000 houses. ...
The New York Independent System Operator (NYISO) this week launched a first-in-the-nation program to integrate aggregations into the wholesale electric markets of distributed energy resources (DER), such as small-scale solar arrays, residential batteries, and electric vehicles. This follows approval of new market rules by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission ...
Kohler Co. has been selected by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Clean Energy Demonstrations to begin award negotiations for up to $51.2million to demonstrate commercial-scale decarbonization solutions to help move energy-intensive industries toward net-zero. Selected as one of 33 projects in the U.S., the funding will be matched by Kohler investment to support the Electric Boiler ...
Five Star Life, a nonprofit serving underserved youth through its leadership programming, has announced the installation of its 23-kW solar array at its Summit Facility with a ribbon-cutting ceremony scheduled for December 11. The new solar array brings renewable energy to the 350-acre innovative learning campus, enabling FSL to ...
A solar-supported EV fast charging station was recently put into service in Mount Kisco, New York. Sustainable Westchester supported the project featuring an 85-kW solar array, 180-kWh energy storage system and two Jule 75-kW DC fast chargers. Any excess electricity generated by the facility is prioritized for low-and moderate-income (LMI) ...
Four Twelve Renewables is unveiling its inaugural utility-scale solar facility in Greene Township, Beaver County, Pennsylvania. The 46-MWDC facility, known as BE Pine, is made up of approximately 98,000 bifacial solar panels. BE Pine is the first project in Four Twelve Renewables’ portfolio. Four Twelve is an energy developer seeking to use clean, abundant natural resources to generate ...
PowerFlex announced the completion of the second rooftop solar project for athletic wear brand ASICS at its Byhalia Distribution Center in Mississippi. The completion of the 1-MW solar rooftop brings the total solar generated power at the distribution center to 2 MW that will power the building load and directly offset utility costs. The system is the largest solar PV rooftop in Byhalia and ...
Community solar enables access to solar for homeowners, renters and business owners who may not have ideal conditions to directly install solar panels onsite. Through this arrangement, clean energy is still delivered by a customer's regular electric providers, and the power produced from the solar array is fed ...
SCP performed an upfront energy audit in addition to consulting at key project milestones that helped establish how a solar-plus-storage system could be tailored to the customer needs at Pepperwood's Bechtel House. ...
A new 1.75-megawatt agrivoltaic solar array at Iowa State University will study how best to optimize land use while providing local community benefits. Horticulture and agriculture students will plant crops to study how they perform under solar arrays of various heights and configurations. Engineering students will review ...