Oregon utility PGE, NextEra complete wind component of hybrid Wheatridge...
Renewables Now: Portland General Electric Company, or PGE, and NextEra Energy Resources LLC have brought online a 300-MW wind farm that will be part of a larger hybrid power complex in Oregon. Dubbed...
View ArticleMinnesota’s Great River Energy to replace 1,151MW Coal Creek plant with wind...
Minneapolis Star Tribune: Great River Energy now has agreements with five wind farms to provide power to help compensate for the planned closure of its massive coal plant in North Dakota by 2023. Maple...
View ArticleTerra-Gen, Mortenson plan world’s largest solar-plus-storage project in...
S&P Global Market Intelligence ($): Developer Terra-Gen LLC and construction company M. A. Mortenson Co. Inc. plan to break ground in the first quarter of 2021 on a massive 1,118-MW solar complex...
View ArticleTrade group estimates U.S. solar capacity installations will top 19GW in 2020
Reuters: U.S. solar installations are expected to soar 43% this year, just shy of a pre-pandemic forecast, as the industry has recovered more quickly than expected from a virus-related slowdown,...
View ArticleArizona utility APS issues RFP for additional solar and battery storage
PV Tech: Arizona Public Service (APS) has issued a request for proposals (RFP) for 300-400MW of renewables capacity and for energy storage to be retrofitted at its solar plants. The renewables RFP,...
View ArticleXcel Energy completes construction of 522MW Sagamore wind farm in New Mexico
Albuquerque Journal: A mammoth wind farm covering 156 square miles in eastern Roosevelt County will begin generating enough electricity later this month to power up about 194,000 homes. At 522...
View ArticleCon Edison, 174 Power Global sign contract for big battery storage project in...
Greentech Media: New York utility Con Edison has signed its biggest energy storage contract to date, a 100-megawatt/400-megawatt-hour lithium-ion battery project that will help balance a grid facing...
View ArticleNew Mexico regulators deny permit for utility gas project, cite state’s 2045...
S&P Global Market Intelligence ($): The New Mexico Public Regulation Commission on Dec. 16 denied a request by El Paso Electric Co. to build a 228-MW natural gas-fired plant because it will not...
View ArticleRegulators tell Mississippi Power to plan for early retirement of 950MW of...
S&P Global Market Intelligence ($): Mississippi Power Co. must study the early retirement of 950 MW of fossil-fueled generation in its next integrated resource plan, or IRP, as Mississippi...
View ArticleDominion files construction plan for 2.6GW, $7.8 billion Virginia offshore...
Virginia Business: Richmond-based Dominion Energy Inc. announced Friday it has filed the required construction and operations plan (COP) with the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management to build the...
View ArticleGenOn to close Morgantown coal-fired station, support Maryland just...
E&E News ($): One of the nation’s largest independent power producers has announced it is closing a coal plant in Maryland and is throwing its weight behind a bid to phase out coal-fired generation...
View ArticleU.S. Energy Department aims for 90% reduction in long-duration battery...
S&P Global Market Intelligence ($): With U.S. energy storage additions on pace to smash records in 2020 and 2021, despite delays related to the COVID-19 pandemic, the U.S. Energy Department on Dec....
View ArticleMinnesota regulators okay $750 million Xcel plan to repower 651MW of wind...
Minneapolis Star-Tribune: Minnesota regulators on Wednesday approved Xcel Energy’s $750 million wind farm “repowering” project, one of several proposals from the utility to help speed up the state’s...
View ArticleS&P: U.S. renewable energy pipeline totals 172.5GW through 2024
S&P Global Market Intelligence ($): Despite the COVID-19 pandemic causing record job losses for the renewable energy industry, slowing construction activity and threatening developers’ access to...
View ArticleXcel to close two-unit, 441MW Hayden coal plant in Colorado by 2028
The Denver Post: Xcel Energy-Colorado and its partners in the Hayden Generating Station will close the coal-fired plant’s two units by 2028, years earlier than planned. Xcel Energy, which owns the...
View ArticlePattern Energy begins construction of 1,050MW wind project and transmission...
Renewables Now: Pattern Energy Group LP has finalised the financing and launched full construction of its over-1-GW Western Spirit suite of wind projects in New Mexico. Construction has also kicked off...
View ArticleNextEra moving forward with Montana’s largest wind farm near Colstrip coal plant
Billings Gazette: Construction of what’s expected to be Montana’s largest wind farm will begin in 2021 just beyond the shadow the coal-fired Colstrip Power Plant. NextEra Energy Resources will plug...
View ArticleFlorida municipal utility moving forward with March closure of McIntosh coal...
The Ledger: City officials gave a thumbs up to Lakeland Electric’s plan to begin shutting down its aging coal plant this March, after the utility calculated the early shutdown could save $13.1 million...
View ArticleXcel seeking bids for 500MW of solar at Sherco coal plant in Minnesota
Renewables Now: U.S. utility Xcel Energy Inc has issued a Request for Proposals (RfP) that seeks to add around 500 MW of newly-built solar power generation in Minnesota. The utility-scale solar...
View ArticleVistra begins commercial operation of world’s largest battery storage system...
Energy Storage News: The world’s largest battery energy storage system (BESS) so far has gone into operation in Monterey County, California, US retail electricity and power generation company Vistra...
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