Xcel backs $1.7b transmission plan to deliver solar and wind
The proposed 345 kv transmission lines would ring eastern Colorado, covering more than a dozen rural counties, bringing solar and wind energy to the state’s big load centers.
Sunrise brief: These 3 states have the most small-scale solar PV
Also on the rise: $150m construction revolver for DSD, Sunlight Financial offers Spanish language products, and what’s up with wind?
‘Report card’ hands the energy sector a C- for infrastructure. It’s an improvement.
The report from the American Society of Civil Engineers said renewables are driving an increase in electric transmission infrastructure spending. But reliability remain a problem, as Texas can attest.
Watch: White Pine completes a floating solar project, one of the largest in the US
The 4.8 MW floating PV installation in California dethrones the country’s previous largest, located in metro New York City.
Solar developer Keystone Power Holdings expands U.S. footprint
The company plans to enter three new markets and focus on nonprofits and municipalities with wastewater treatment plants.
Dakota Power wins OK for utility-scale solar in the Garden State
The developer won local approval for a 70 MW solar farm, part of its proposed billion-dollar project portfolio in New Jersey.
Arcadia expands community solar program to Maine
The community solar program comes with a subscription model that requires no credit check, no long-term contract, and no cancellation fee, benefiting the rental market.
Sunrise brief: Energy storage posted a record quarter, WoodMac and ESA say
Also on the rise: FedEx announces a 2040 carbon-neutral goal and $2bn to get it there, more patents for Hunt Perovskite, and Zenernet looks to the skies to trim its residential solar design time.
Adapture Renewables acquires an 81 MW solar project in Texas
The company initially financed the Rippey Solar project and now has acquired it, expanding its Lone Star State solar portfolio to 95 MW.
Add 16 GW solar, 10 GW storage in North Carolina, says alternative resource plan
The plan would yield $7.2 billion of cost savings, says a filing from the North Carolina Sustainable Energy Association and other groups, in comparison with Duke Energy’s least-cost resource plan.
