Regulators also approved expanding the utility’s community solar program and make 10 MW of solar capacity available for subscription.
The company is among the first to apply to enter the Arizona electric supply market under the recently-upheld Energy Competition Act.
Kore Power plans to bring its KOREPlex manufacturing facility to Maricopa County, Arizona, marking one of the first lithium-ion battery manufacturing facilities wholly owned by a U.S. company.
Horse trading was needed to reverse an earlier vote that rejected a package of clean energy goals. The new goal goes back into the rulemaking process and a final vote.
The plan took three years to put together and won initial approval by regulators last November. Rejection means that renewable energy standards adopted 15 years ago remain in effect.
Salt River Project currently has 648 MW of utility-scale solar plants online or contracted and under development across Arizona.
The utility is expanding an earlier RFP and wants to procure up to 150 MW of solar PV capacity by early 2023.
The projects include 200 MW slated to enter service in June and 700 MW in early-stage development.
Here’s this week’s gigawatt of big solar project news.
Also in the brief: Duke Energy Renewables has officially completed the 200 MW Rambler Solar project, Nikola Corporation has broken ground on its soon-to-be 1 million-square-foot manufacturing facility, Nelnet Renewable Energy will be managing services for 20 MW of community solar in New York.
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