Ameresco, a Massachusetts-based renewable energy provider, received contracts from Avenue Capital’s Middle River Power (MRP) to design and construct four battery energy storage system (BESS) projects in California totaling 379 MWh. The four BESS projects will be co-located at gas power plants owned by MRP. The projects will get started in the summer of 2023, which are expected to be completed in the third quarter of 2024.
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Synhelion and its partner, University of Florida, has announced that their joint project has been awarded $2.7 million from the US Department of Energy Solar Energy Technologies Office (SETO). The project aims to accelerate the large-scale development and deployment of concentrating solar thermal power (CSP) technology to produce green hydrogen for industrial decarbonization and electric power generation and storage.
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Nexamp, a clean energy producer, has obtained more than $400 million in financing to assist in the development of 49 solar and battery storage projects across six US states. The financing includes tax equity and loan commitments from US Bancorp Impact Finance and Mitsubishi UFJ Finance Group, respectively
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Savion Solar and Toyota have signed a 100 MW solar PV virtual power purchase agreement (VPPA) for a brownfield project in Kentucky, US. The project’s anticipated start of construction is in the latter part of 2023, and it will be ready for commercial operation by 2024. The project, developed by Savion and a local solar developer named Edelen Renewables that specialises in brownfield solar projects, will turn an old coal mine in Martin County, close to the border between the states of Kentucky and West Virginia, into a solar PV facility.
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Australia and the US have announced a bilateral agreement to collaborate on legislation to aid the green energy transition in both countries with a new compact. The Climate, Critical Minerals, and Clean Energy Transformation Compact will see the two countries adopt shared energy goals and policies. This will in effect allow Australian green businesses to benefit from subsidies and protections provided to US companies under the Inflation Reduction Act.
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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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Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners (CIP) has reached an agreement with TC Energy to sell two of its US onshore wind farms in Texas for an undisclosed sum. CIP has agreed to sell the Blue Cloud and Fluvanna I wind farms through its Copenhagen Infrastructure II K/S fund. Located in Scurry County, Fluvanna I is a 155 MW project that has been operational since 2017. The 148 MW Blue Cloud wind farm opened in 2018 in Bailey and Lamb Counties.
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Duke Energy, a North Carolina-based utility corporation, has completed two new solar plants in Florida, US, after constructing two earlier facilities in the state’s north. The Bay Ranch Renewable Energy Centre and the Hardeetown Renewable Energy Centre have a combined capacity of 74.9 MW. The Bay Ranch project, which is situated in Bay County, is built on 650 acres of land near Highway 22. It is powered by 220,000 solar panels mounted on single-axis tracker
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AVANGRID’s 162 MWac (205 MWdc) Pachwáywit Fields solar farm in Oregon, US, has begun commercial operations. Iberdrola is the parent company of AVANGRID. The facility, which is situated in Gilliam County, is the largest solar photovoltaic plant in the state. The 1,223-acre Pachwáywit Fields facility has 471,156 solar panels, producing enough clean energy to power 40,000 households.
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Crossroads Agriculture, a subsidiary of Soloviev Group, has announced plans to construct two solar projects with a combined capacity of more than 1 GW in Colorado, US. No financial details were disclosed, although Crossroads expects electricity costs to be notably lower than from the coal-fired power plants they will replace. The projects have the capacity to power nearly 250,000 US households.
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LG Energy Solution, a South Korean provider of energy solutions, has announced plans to invest $5.5 billion in the construction of a new battery manufacturing plant in the US. The manufacturing facility, which will be built in Queen Creek, Arizona, will be the largest investment ever done in a standalone battery manufacturing facility in North America. It will have two facilities: one for producing cylindrical batteries for electric vehicles and the other to manufacture pouch-type lithium iron phosphate (LFP) batteries for energy storage systems (ESS).
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Tesla, a manufacturer of battery and electric vehicle (EV), has announced its plans to build a $5 billion EV gigafactory in Mexico. This makes the company the second in the country to launch large-scale battery production in pursuit of the US’s Clean Vehicle Credit scheme. The facility will be constructed near Monterrey.
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First Solar, a US-based manufacturer of solar panels, has received a 4 GWdc order from Lightsource BP, a British solar energy company, for its cutting-edge thin film solar modules. Around the US, the solar modules will be installed at Lightsource BP projects. First Solar will supply its Series 6 Plus and next-generation Series 7 modules, which will be delivered between 2026 and 2028. Formerly, Lightsource BP had a deal with the company to supply up to 4.3 GWdc worth of solar modules in 2021.
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ArcLight Capital Partners and its affiliates have sold the Great River Hydro project in the US to a Hydro-Québec partner for around $2 billion. According to ArcLight, the acquisition for the infrastructure platform for renewable energy concluded on February 10, 2023. The Great River Hydro will be purchased by HQI US Holding, a subsidiary of Hydro-Québec, in October 2022.
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Grey, a global builder in the manufacturing industry, and Stantec, a global provider of design services, have been chosen to provide construction, architecture, and various other services for QCells’s new $2.5 billion solar manufacturing facility in Georgia, US. Additionally, mechanical, electrical, plumbing, structural, and civil engineering as well as environmental, water, and wastewater services will be offered by the design-build team of Grey and Stantec.
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The Biden-Harris administration published The Long-Term Strategy (LTS) of the US in November 2021. It is a visionary climate strategy that outlines a plan to tackle the growing climate crisis by decarbonizing the national economy. In January 2023, “The U.S. National Blueprint for Transportation Decarbonization: A joint strategy to transform transportation” was released. REGlobal provides a brief extract of the report.
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Amazon has recently announced that in 2022 it grew its renewable energy capacity by 8.3 GW through 133 new projects in 11 countries. This brings Amazon’s total portfolio to more than 20 GW—that could generate the amount of energy to power 5.3 million U.S. homes—across 401 renewable energy projects in 22 countries. With these continued investments, reportedly, Amazon set a new corporate record for the most renewable energy announced by a single company in one year.
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Ørsted, a Danish energy company, has agreed to acquire PSEG’s (Public Service Enterprise Group) 25 per cent equity stake in the Ocean Wind I offshore wind project in the US. The 1.1 GW offshore project, which is located about 24 km from southern New Jersey, will now be 100 per cent owned by Ørsted as part of the agreement. No financial details have been disclosed.
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A key component of the IRA is a lucrative set of tax credits intended to accelerate the deployment of clean energy technologies such as green hydrogen. This financial support has also brought some vehicle makers off the sidelines and into the clean transportation arena, with a few even planning to scale up hydrogen vehicle manufacturing and build new infrastructure.
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Enfinity Global, a Spanish renewable energy company, has purchased Capital Dynamics’ 400 MW utility-scale solar portfolio in the US. The deal, which was first disclosed in September 2022, includes 28 operational solar energy generating facilities spread across California, North Carolina, and Idaho. The portfolio can produce 1,175 GWh of renewable energy yearly, enough to power up to 64,000 homes, while removing 508,000 tonnes of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.
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