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Also on the rise: Energy Vault notches a win for its gravity based energy storage system, and Greenbacker names an EPC for two utility-scale solar projects.

While still in the planning and development stage, the New Brunswick facility is targeted to enter service in 2024.

Both projects have long-term PPAs in place with local utilities and are slated to start construction later in 2021.

Energy Vault signed a $520 million deal to supply 1.6 GWh of energy storage to DG Fuels to produce renewable hydrogen and a variety of fuels.

The new rates will help to support the expansion of two of the utility’s prominent solar programs, 30-by-30 and the SolarTogether community solar initiative.

Also on the rise: Large format modules are gaining market share and presenting a new set of challenges, Honeywell and Duke will jointly test a flow battery, and Sunnova will offer EV charging through a partnership with ChargePoint.

The patents cover shingled solar modules and a process for separating pv strips from solar cells for use in shingled solar modules.

The two plan to embed ChargePoint software in customers’ Sunnova portal to help optimize car charging with other home energy demands.

The battery, which uses an electrolyte to convert chemical energy into electricity for storage and deployment, will begin testing in 2022 at Duke Energy’s Emerging Technology and Innovation Center in Mount Holly, North Carolina.

Some 90,000 individual solar panels will generate enough electricity to cover around 40% of the electricity use in two buildings for Google.