Iberdrola moving ahead with 1.2GW of new solar capacity in Spain
PV Tech: Spanish energy company Iberdrola has added 750MW of solar PV capacity to its development pipeline. The plans include two utility-scale Spanish solar facilities; the 380MW Tagus project in the...
View ArticleXcel proposes major transmission project in Colorado to boost renewable...
The Colorado Sun: Xcel Energy on Tuesday filed a plan with state electricity regulators for a $1.7 billion project to build 560 miles of transmission lines encircling eastern Colorado designed to bring...
View ArticleEntergy’s Louisiana utility seeking bids for 500MW of solar capacity
S&P Global Market Intelligence ($): Entergy Services LLC on March 5 launched a request for proposals seeking up to 500 MW of solar photovoltaic resources on behalf of Entergy Louisiana LLC. The...
View ArticleTesla subsidiary building 100MW battery storage project in Texas
Bloomberg: Elon Musk is getting into the Texas power market, with previously unrevealed construction of a gigantic battery connected to an ailing electric grid that nearly collapsed last month. The...
View ArticleRenewables, nuclear on track to supply 46% of U.S. electricity by 2030—S&P
S&P Global Market Intelligence ($): The significant downward trend in coal-fired generation seen across the U.S. since 2010 continues in S&P Global Market Intelligence’s fourth-quarter 2020...
View ArticleCommercial operation begins at 250MW Blooming Grove wind farm in Illinois
ReNews.biz: Invenergy’s 250MW Blooming Grove Wind Energy Center, in Illinois, has commenced commercial operations. Output from Blooming Grove, in McLean County, will supply electricity to Verizon and...
View ArticleEnergyAustralia to close Yallourn coal plant in 2028 as country’s renewable...
Bloomberg: EnergyAustralia will accelerate the closure of a 100-year-old coal-fired plant and install a giant storage battery to achieve a faster transition to clean power that’s leaving aging fossil...
View ArticleWashington utility moves forward with 5MW green hydrogen demonstration project
S&P Global Market Intelligence ($): Heralded as one of the largest green hydrogen projects in the U.S., Douglas County PUD No. 1 on March 8 broke ground on a 5-MW hydrogen generation and storage...
View ArticleJudge okays Entergy plan to close two large coal plants in Arkansas
Talk Business & Politics: A federal judge approved Thursday (March 11) a settlement agreement for Little Rock-based utility Entergy Arkansas to retire two coal-fired plants and a natural gas plant...
View ArticleArizona utility to cut output at Four Corners coal plant
Arizona Republic: The coal-fired Four Corners Power Plant near Farmington, New Mexico, will provide less power to Arizona under a new operating plan, Arizona Public Service Co. said Friday. APS owns...
View ArticleWood Mackenzie: U.S. will install 324GW of solar capacity in coming 10 years
Reuters: Solar installations in the United States are expected to quadruple by 2030 thanks to the extension of a key industry subsidy late last year and booming demand for carbon-free power, an...
View ArticleCommercial operation begins at Duke unit’s 350MW Frontier wind farm in Oklahoma
ReNews.biz: Duke Energy Renewables has begun commercial operation of the largest wind farm in its fleet, the 350MW Frontier 2 project in Oklahoma. The wind farm, in Kay County, is an expansion of the...
View ArticleWisconsin utilities planning second large solar-plus-storage project
Lake Geneva Regional News: Three of Wisconsin’s largest utilities plan to spend $446 million on a second large-scale solar farm with battery storage. Madison Gas and Electric and the WEC Energy Group...
View ArticleNextEra proposes 690MW solar farm at closed Iowa nuclear plant
The Gazette: For more than four decades, the name of former Cedar Rapids utility executive Duane Arnold has been synonymous with nuclear power in Iowa. Now it could have a new connotation: a massive...
View ArticleMississippi solar-plus-storage project to supply Facebook data centers in...
Associated Press: A company will develop a solar farm in Mississippi to provide power for two Facebook data centers in the southeastern United States. Florida-based Origis Energy will own and operate a...
View ArticleIndiana utility signs deals for 404MW of wind, solar as part of coal phaseout...
Northwest Indiana Times: NIPSCO and the North American subsidiary of the Spanish firm EDP Renewables announced Tuesday a power purchase agreement and a build-and-transfer agreement for two renewable...
View ArticleNevada regulators okay major transmission expansion to move 5GW of renewable...
S&P Global Market Intelligence ($): The Public Utilities Commission of Nevada has approved the first phase of NV Energy Inc.’s proposed plan to build nearly 600 miles of transmission lines intended...
View ArticleInvenergy secures financing to build 999MW wind farm for American Electric Power
Power Technology: Renewable energy developer Invenergy has secured construction financing for its 999MW Traverse Wind Energy Center in Oklahoma, US. Traverse Wind Energy Center is the largest of three...
View ArticleStudy finds Los Angeles can have 98% clean, reliable electricity generation...
Los Angeles Times: Los Angeles is one of the last places in California still burning coal for electricity — and if all goes according to plan, it could become one of the country’s first major cities to...
View ArticleAustralia’s AGL to split coal plants from retail unit in transition-driven...
Renew Economy: Nearly a decade after AGL changed the colour coding of its business strategy from green to black as it bought three of the country’s biggest coal generators, Australia’s largest emitter...
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