newsweek.com - Tue January 07, 2025
Largest Solar Power Facility in U.S. Gets OK in Oregon
The Sunstone Solar project, a 1.2 gigawatt solar and energy storage facility that would become the United States' largest solar power facility, was approved for construction by the Oregon Energy Facility Siting Council, newsweek.com reported....
Takeuchi - Thu July 25, 2024
Solar Panels Now Offsetting Energy Costs at Takeuchi-US Facilities
Takeuchi is fully committed to being good global citizens who contribute to environmental preservation by developing and implementing sustainable technologies wherever and whenever possible. Transforming Takeuchi facilities to carbon neutral was part of that plan, first in Japan and then in the United States....
Clearway - Tue March 05, 2024
Clearway Energy Group Completes $660M Solar Project
Clearway Energy Group ("Clearway") recently announced the completion of its 452 MW Texas Solar Nova complex in Kent County. The project, completed in two phases, will generate enough electricity to power more than 190,000 homes each year....
Origis - Wed October 18, 2023
Origis Commences Construction On New Mexico Solar Farm
Origis Energy recently announced construction has begun on the Escalante Solar Project near Grants, N.M. The 200-megawatt solar project is at the site of the decommissioned Escalante Station, a 253-megawatt coal-powered plant that Tri-State closed in 2020....
bp - Tue October 03, 2023
bp Begins Peacock Solar Project Outside Corpus Christi
bp has started construction on its 187MWdc Peacock Solar project, located 10 mi. north of Corpus Christi in San Patricio County, Texas, helping support the global transition to lower carbon energy. Peacock will sell all of the electricity it generates under a long-term power purchase agreement to Gulf Coast Growth Ventures (GCGV), a joint venture between ExxonMobil and SABIC, which produces materials used to manufacture clothes, food containers, packaging, agricultural film and construction materials....
Lucy Perry – CEG CORRESPONDENT - Thu September 07, 2023
Some DOTs Installing Solar Panel Fields Along Interstate Stretches
The dead space between stretches of interstate is coming alive across the country as states fill these neutral areas with solar panels. California is an early adopter of the concept, putting miles of otherwise empty expanses of land to good use....
Trimble - Tue June 27, 2023
Trimble Constructing Solar Array Project in Colorado
Trimble announced that the company has commenced construction of a 1.7-megawatt solar array as a renewable energy source at its Westminster, Colo., headquarters. The new solar panels are projected to offset more than 100 percent of the energy consumed by Trimble's two-building campus in the Westmoor Technology Park, which represents approximately 6-to-7 percent of the company's total global electricity demand (based on 2021)....
Duke Energy - Tue April 18, 2023
Duke Energy's Plant in Navarro Marks Its Largest Solar Project
Duke Energy Sustainable Solutions (DESS), a nonregulated commercial brand of Duke Energy, is now operating its largest solar power plant ever — the 250-megawatt (MW) Pisgah Ridge Solar project in Navarro County, Texas....
PV Magazine - Tue February 21, 2023
Ørsted Breaks Ground On Mockingbird Solar Center
Ørsted, a utility-scale renewable energy developer with a large footprint in Texas, announced it has broken ground on the 471 MW Mockingbird solar center. The project is Ørsted's largest solar facility....
Chuck MacDonald – CEG CORRESPONDENT - Tue November 29, 2022
McCarthy Drives Piles for Solar Farm
Solar power, like other renewable energy sources, is big news these days. But for it to be truly useful to the power grid, solar power needs to be more than panels on the rooftops of a few homes. Solar power needs to be harvested on a massive scale....
