ACCIONA Starts First Solar Photovoltaic Project in the U.S.

Joaquín Castillo ACCIONA has begun construction on the 317 MW Fort Bend Solar Farm outside Houston – the company’s first photovoltaic…

Contractor’s Corner: Veregy

Veregy is a newish energy services company (ESCO) with a much longer history. The company started in 2019 after six regional ESCOs merged to offer energy optimization and performance contracting to commercial clients nationwide. One of those…

Anaheim Solar One turning vacant California land into dual-axis solar farm

Anaheim Solar One plans to develop a 3-MW PV solar project on vacant land in Anaheim Hills, California using Mechatron Solar‘s unique dual-axis tracker solution. The site is zoned as “Open Space” and has rolling hills and featureless…

Two U.S. solar panel technology innovators combine to form CubicPV and make tandem modules

1366 Technologies and Hunt Perovskite Technologies (HPT) have merged their businesses. The merger combines two disruptive technologies – 1366’s Direct Wafer process and HPT’s printed perovskite solar PV technology – to bring to market…

Pine Gate Renewables announces its first solar + storage project now online in North Carolina

Pine Gate Renewables announced that Grissom Solar, a 6.9-MWDC solar project coupled with 10 MWh of storage, is now online in Enfield, North Carolina, interconnected to Halifax Electric Membership Corporation’s Medoc Substation. The project…

Oregon state legislature passes 100% clean power bill

A bill committing electricity providers to deliver 100% clean power to Oregon customers by 2040 passed both the House and Senate of the Oregon State Legislative Assembly on Saturday. If the policy is signed into law by Gov. Kate Brown, Oregon…

Renewables generated more than a quarter of the country’s electricity in April 2021

Electrical generation by renewable energy sources (i.e., biomass, geothermal, hydropower, solar, wind) set a new record in April 2021 and accounted for 25.7% of total U.S. production. Further, solar and wind’s output during the month was…

Dispossessed, Again: Climate Change Hits Native Americans Especially Hard

In Chefornak, a Yu’pik village near the western coast of Alaska, the water is getting closer.The thick ground, once frozen solid, is thawing. The village preschool, its blue paint peeling, sits precariously on wooden stilts in spongy marsh…

Climate watchdog says Britain lacks a strategy to meet its goals.

An influential watchdog group said on Thursday that the British government was doing far too little to carry out the ambitious pledges it had made on tackling climate change.Although the government has promised to cut its greenhouse emissions…

Bipartisan Infrastructure Deal Omits Big Climate Measures

“Those two things must go hand in hand for it to have my support,” she said.Some Democratic strategists are skeptical about the budget reconciliation route. Senator Joe Manchin III of West Virginia and Senator Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona,…