Leeward Renewable Energy, a US renewable energy developer and operator, has inked power purchase agreements (PPAs) with Microsoft Corp for two 200 MW solar projects in Texas. The tech giant obtained power from the Cradle Solar project in Brazoria County and the Morrow Lake Solar project in Frio County under the PPAs.
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San Antonio, Texas, will soon be one of the first major US cities to leverage the new “direct pay” mechanism to build one of the largest on-site solar projects for local governments. The City of San Antonio has made history by approving a major deal with local solar developer Big Sun Solar to put an estimated 13 megawatts (MW) of solar on 42 city-owned facilities and parking lots. Most significantly, these projects will offset about 11 percent of the electricity consumption for City operations, accruing a net savings of $7–$11 million over the 25-year lifetime of the panels.
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Waaree Energies, an Indian energy solutions provider, is planning to build a new solar PV module manufacturing facility in the US state of Texas. The facility will be located in Brookshire and is projected to have an initial capacity of 3 GW per year. The facility is slated to begin operations by the end of 2024.
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Uniper, a German energy company, and First Ammonia, a New York-based ammonia plant developer, have decided to join forces on a green ammonia project at the port of Victoria, Texas. The companies announced their collaboration plans on October 30, 2023 during the US-German Hydrogen Conference in Berlin.
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Advanced Power, a Switzerland-based power producer, has declared the sale of a 232 MW DC solar project with significant storage capacity in Texas to the renewable’s unit of Turkish conglomerate Sabanci Holdings. The Oriana Solar complex, which spans 1,100 acres in Victoria County, is planned with a co-located 60 MW/120 MWh battery storage system.
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Ashtrom Renewable Energy has secured a $270 million green loan for the realisation of the 306 MW/400 MW DC Tierra Bonita solar project in Texas. Reportedly, the funding was organised with five banks, including BHI, a US unit of Bank Hapoalim Group, Bayerische Landesbank, ING Capital, Rabobank, and Societe Generale.
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Trina Solar, a Chinese manufacturer of photovoltaic equipment, has planned to build a 5 GW photovoltaic module factory in Texas, entailing an investment of over $200 million. The property and necessary equipment are both included in the proposed investment. According to the plan, the company will manufacture its Vertex modules at the new manufacturing facility using polysilicon that is sourced from the US and Europe and 210-mm large-size wafers.
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SUSI Partners, a Swiss-based investment management firm, along with its joint venture partner SMT Energy, has signed a tax equity financing agreement for a 100 MW battery storage portfolio in Texas, US. SUSI secured the funding from Greenprint Capital on behalf of the SUSI Energy Transition Fund. The portfolio comprises ten utility-scale standalone battery energy storage projects.
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Jupiter Power, an energy storage project company has been awarded an order to construct two standalone battery energy storage projects of 160 MW/ 320 MWh capacity in Texas. The company has raised $70 million for setting up these projects
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Apex Clean Energy and Powin, the developer of energy storage platforms, have decided to collaborate on the development of two new battery storage projects in Texas. The projects, known as Angelo Storage and Great Kiskadee Storage, will assist grid reliability in the Energy Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT) market and have a total capacity of 400 MWh. The 195 MW Angelo solar project will be constructed next to Angelo Storage.
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Avangrid, a US-based energy company, has started the construction of two solar facilities in Texas and Ohio. The combined clean energy output from the Texas True North and Ohio Powell Creek projects will be 523.5 MW. True North, which is being built in Falls County, Texas, will start producing 321MW of power in the early 2025 timeframe. The project is anticipated to provide more than 200 employment during construction.
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Duke Energy Sustainable Solutions (DESS), a subsidiary of the US-based energy corporation Duke Energy, has begun operations at its Pisgah Ridge Solar facility in Navarro County, Texas. The 250 MW project employed up to 300 individuals during its construction phase. DESS will own and operate the project, while Moss managed the engineering and construction operations. Three virtual power purchase agreements (VPPAs) with Charles River Laboratories International, Midwest retailer Meijer, and one unnamed entity are already in place for the Pisgah Ridge Solar plant.
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Plenitude, an Eni company based in Italy, has begun operations at the Golden Buckle Solar Project in Brazoria County, Texas. Built on 600 acres of land, the 263 MW solar facility has the ability to produce between 400 and 500 GWh of clean energy annually. Under a long-term power purchase agreement, Target will purchase the majority of the green electricity produced by the solar farm.
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Acciona Energía, a subsidiary of the Spanish infrastructure firm Acciona, has agreed to purchase the Cunningham battery energy storage system (BESS) project in Texas from Qcells. No financial details have been disclosed. The Cunningham facility, which is 55 miles from Dallas, is expected to come online in 2023 and will be the largest operating battery energy storage project in Texas.
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AES Corporation, a US-based power company, and Air Products, a chemical company, have teamed up to develop a green hydrogen production facility in Wilbarger County, Texas. A nearly $4 billion investment will be required for the renewable-power-to-hydrogen project, which will comprise 1.4 GW of wind and solar power capacity.
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Google has signed a 942 MW power purchase agreement (PPA) with SB Energy Global to power its Midlothian, Texas, data centre as well as the Dallas Cloud area. The tech giant will purchase nearly 75 per cent of the electricity generated by four of SB Energy’s solar power plants that are currently under construction.
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Taaleri Energia, a Finnish energy company, has announced the launch of the Escalade wind farm in Truscott, Texas, in collaboration with AIP Management and Akuo. The 45 Vestas V162 5.6 MW turbines and 20 Vestas V150 4.2MW turbines make up the 336 MW wind farm. It will produce roughly 1,270 GWh of clean energy annually, enough to supply 115,000 homes in the area.
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SUSI Partners, a Swiss infrastructure fund manager, has announced the acquisition of a 100 MW battery storage project portfolio in South Texas, US, in collaboration with SMT Energy. The deal was done through SUSI Partners’ flagship Energy Transition Fund (SETF). The portfolio comprises ready-to-build 10 MW battery storage projects and is anticipated to start operating in the first half of 2023.
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In a year of record-high prices for fossil fuels, as lawmakers consider new policies that can help fight inflation, renewable energy is already helping to shield Americans from steep jumps in their electricity bills. Based on benchmark natural gas prices, RMI estimates that, on average, wind and solar projects in Texas have avoided $20 million per day in fuel that otherwise would have been needed for fossil fuel-based power plants to meet electricity demand.
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Spearmint Energy, a US-based renewable energy platform, has announced the acquisition of Revolution, a 150 MW battery energy storage project in Texas. For an undisclosed sum, the project was purchased from Con Edison Development, a subsidiary of Con Edison Clean Energy Businesses. The Revolution project, one of the largest battery projects in Texas, is situated close to King Mountain Wind Farm in the Lower Colorado River Authority Territory (LCRA).
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