California city eyes FEMA grant for solar+storage projects
The resilience grant money from the federal disaster agency would help pay for solar-based microgrids at five city-owned locations.
Sunrise brief: California looks to electric vehicles for grid support this summer
Also on the rise: Nautilus buys a community solar development portfolio, a national lab moves ahead on a $75 million grid storage accelerator facility, and Sunrun prices its solar-as-a-service offering.
Duke faces pushback over North Carolina brownfield solar project
Duke along with community and environmental groups find themselves as unlikely allies as state officials deem a 5 MW installation to be expensive and unnecessary.
Sunrise brief: Community solar player Nexamp lines up $440m to fuel its growth
Also on the rise: Texas regulators rebuff a call to roll off $16b in storm-related charges, Enphase Energy supplies microinverters to a senior housing project, and Canadian Solar sells Japanese solar projects.
Cleantech Roundup: Sunverge, RE2 Robotics, Sunlight Financial, and more
Check out this week’s list of some of the newest announcements related to clean energy products.
DOE pumps $115 million into clean energy R&D for small businesses
The latest part of the Biden administration’s Build Back Better pledge, the funding will go to grid modernization, carbon removal, renewable energy and energy storage, among other technologies.
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?
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.
Sunrise brief: Senate bill eyes $8bn in tax credits to boost clean energy jobs
Also on the rise: EDF Renewables signs a PPA for its Space City Solar project in Texas, Nextracker wins a supply order for a big South American project, and a polysilicon producer signs a three-year deal for 41,000 MT.
New Columbia Solar raises $75 million, looks to develop 50 projects in D.C.
The company closed a tax equity deal with Franklin Park Infrastructure that will help it add solar capacity in a challenging urban environment.
