Kentucky seeking its largest solar power plant via a deal with Toyota and Dow
Louisville Gas and Electric Company and Kentucky Utilities Company are seeking approval for a 100 MWac solar power project to be split among their own customers, plus the two corporations, to be delivered by 2022.
Fitch Ratings: solar outperformed wind yet again in 2019
Fitch Ratings’s 2019 Global Renewables Performance Review has found that utility-scale solar projects are still outperforming comparable wind projects in predictability of generation and revenue.
Israel launches 300 MW solar-plus-storage tender
The Israeli government wants a 300-megawatt solar plant linked to large-scale storage in the Negev desert. Construction is planned for late 2021 and completion in 2023.
NextEra on its ‘secret sauce’ for energy storage, 2 GW of solar+wind+storage, 10 GW of Florida solar, and more
NextEra’s earnings call showed why the company’s stock has gained greater than 50% in the past year, as it deployed 2.7 GW of new and repowered renewables, including 700 MWac of solar power and 340 MW/1.3 GWh of energy storage in 2019.
Qatar’s 800 MW tender draws world record solar power price of $0.01567/kWh
The winning consortium was formed by French oil giant Total and Japanese conglomerate Marubeni Corp.
Morning Brief: JinkoSolar appoints CTO, LS Power acquires EVgo
Today we’re serving up Bank of America’s carbon neutrality, a Kearsarge Energy and NEC Energy Solutions project in Massachusetts, Sunnova expanding to Colorado and New Hampshire, and more.
China added 12 GW of solar last month for 30 GW total in 2019
Vincent Shaw reports: An insider at the China Photovoltaic Industry Association has told pv magazine there was an end-of-year rally after less than 18 GW of new capacity was installed to the end of November.
Tri-State to add more than 700 MW of solar by 2024
Tri-State Generation and Transmission has revealed new aspects of its Responsible Energy Plan, including the addition of 1 GW of wind and solar by 2024 and a 90% carbon emission reduction from Colorado-based generation by 2030.
Arizona utility seeks 400 MW of solar power, 200 MW of it on Navajo tribal lands
Salt River Project has released an RFP requesting up to 400 MWac, in 100 MW or 200 MW increments, of solar power purchase agreements to be delivered before the end of 2023.
Lookout Solar: ‘We are the first in Indian country to develop a large-scale solar project’
Currently ranked next-to-last in solar installations, the 140-MW Lookout project could grow PV in South Dakota from 1 MW to 141 MW and provide employment in the country’s poorest county.
