130MWac Elara Energy Project expected to reach full commercial operation in Q4 2021 Texas-based utility-scale solar developer 7X Energy has sold its 130MWac Elara Energy Project to KOMIPO America, a subsidiary of Korea Midland Power, in the latest move by Korean investors into the US renewable energy sector. Elara, located in Frio County, Texas, is […]
B&V Subsidiary Diode Ventures Closes Financing on Grizzly Ridge Solar Project in Texas
An infrastructure development wing of Black & Veatch has gained the financing it needs for a 138-MW solar farm planned in Texas. Diode Ventures closed funding round for the Grizzly Ridge Solar Project to be located in Hamilton County near Fort Worth. The project was co-developed with RKB Energy LLC. “Grizzly Ridge is one of […]
Mitsubishi Power, Texas Brine Sign Agreement to Develop Large-Scale Hydrogen Storage
HOUSTON (ICIS)—Mitsubishi Power Americas, a subsidiary of Japanese conglomerate Mitsubishi, and privately-owned Texas Brine have announced on 12 May an agreement to develop large-scale, long-duration hydrogen storage solutions. The partnership aims to focus on existing sites controlled by Texas Brine, evaluating their suitability for hydrogen storage both in existing and new salt caverns. Texas Brine […]
Enel Green Power North America Announces Construction Of 1.5 GW Of New Renewables
Enel Green Power North America Announces Construction Of 1.5 GW Of New Renewables + 319 MW Of Storage Capacity In The US Enel Green Power North America has started construction on five new renewable energy projects in the US, including three hybrid renewable + storage projects and it’s largest solar plant in the US The […]
Solar Farms Planned in Texas to Test Market in Wake of Freeze
A Texas renewables developer is about to test investors’ appetite for solar farms in the state after February’s devastating freeze rendered some power plants inoperable for days. Caprock Renewables is looking to raise equity for a $550 million portfolio of utility-scale solar in southern Texas, said Chief Executive Officer Thanasis Iatrou. The Austin-based company hired […]
How a wave of electric-car adoption could strain power grids
Texas plunged into a record-setting deep freeze when a massive winter storm crossed the central plains of the United States in February. Millions were left without power for days after the bitter cold weather led residents to overwhelm the grid by cranking up their heating. As the situation turned deadly, it didn’t take long for […]
PODCAST: Batteries vs fossil fuels, US Secretary of Energy’s big challenges, SPACs and storage
Inside Alamitos, a battery project recently inaugurated in California that uses 100MW / 400MWh of energy storage to reduce the local area’s reliance on burning natural gas for electricity. The new episode of the Solar Media Podcast, sponsored by Honeywell, is now available stream, as we take a look at US Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm’s […]
Wartsila supplies 200MW Texas storage double
Wartsila is to supply energy storage technology totalling 200MW for two projects in the US state of Texas. The company will also provide 10-year asset performance agreements for the interconnected stand-alone systems. The order was placed by Able Grid Energy Solutions, the utility-scale energy storage project development arm of MAP RE/ES. The Madero and Ignacio […]
Biden’s Solar Dreams Collide With His Scorn for China ‘Genocide’
Bloomberg – President Joe Biden’s White House is trying to reconcile his desire to ratchet up U.S. renewable power generation with his outrage over alleged Chinese human-rights abuses in Xinjiang, a major supplier of a key component in solar panels. Factories in Xinjiang, a western region of China that’s home to the oppressed Uyghur minority, […]
Mexico Senate passes energy bill favoring state, fossil fuel
The Senate must still vote on some objections, but President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador appeared to have the votes to push the bill through. It passed earlier in the lower house of Congress MEXICO CITY: Mexico’s Senate passed an electrical energy bill that favors government-owned generating plants that largely run on fossil fuels Tuesday, putting […]