Utility Scale PV

The donation of solar blocks from a 1 MW project will go toward reducing the electric bills for people living in Habitat homes.

Trina has shared that it will be supplying 268,200 430/450 W double-glass TSM-DEG17M modules to the 120 MW Sunflower Solar Park, set to be constructed in the country’s San Cristobal province.

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The company installed more than 400 utility-scale wind and solar projects across the United States and Canada.

Parent company FirstEnergy is requesting 137,000 credits for a trio of utilities, with qualifying applications due in February.

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In an interview with pv magazine publisher Eckhart Gouras, Tony Seba and Adam Dorr discuss their concept of “SuperPower” and argue that the resulting near-zero-cost energy could be used by states or regions to offer a competitive advantage to employers.

Puerto Rico regulators ordered the utility PREPA to procure solar and storage, although the utility’s board chairman says the island’s grid can support only a fraction of the mandated amount.

The project is being constructed to help support Facebook’s data center in Newton County, Georgia, and represents the solar partners’ second such project.

One of the state program’s main goals is to “support communities feeling the impacts of the transition from coal.”