Author: LEED Blogger
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Arevon, Blackstone close $350 million financing for energy storage | Solar Financing Spotlight
Arevon Energy and Blackstone have paired up for a 200 MW / 800 MWh energy storage project. Meanwhile, Aggreko and 38 Degrees have secured financing to acquire projects. All that and more in this installment of the Solar Financing Spotlight. Renewable energy developer Arevon Energy Inc. and Blackstone Credit & Insurance (BXCI) have closed financing……
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4.5 MW Cedar Rapids community solar garden begins operations in Iowa
The Cedar Rapids community solar garden is now generating renewable energy for the more than 300 Alliant Energy customers who subscribed to the utility’s first community solar garden in Iowa. The 4.5 MW garden is Alliant Energy’s largest operational solar project to date in Iowa. Alliant Energy began constructing the project in 2021. It is……
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Kinematics opens new facility in China to double manufacturing capacity
Intelligent motion control experts Kinematics has unveiled a new 270,000-sq-ft manufacturing facility in Jiangyin, Jiangsu, China. The state-of-the-art facility was brought online in only five months, from start to 100% production capacity. The manufacturing facility doubles the company’s capacity and ensures its ability to annually support up to 33 GW of new solar tracking capacity….…
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DOE offers $18 million to fund for Flexible Innovative Transformer Technologies
The U.S. Department of Energy has announced an $18 million funding opportunity for Flexible Innovative Transformer Technologies (FITT). Through this funding opportunity announcement, DOE will select up to nine awardees that are able to research, develop and demonstrate advanced transformers across a range of distribution to transmission scale applications, improving grid reliability and easing transformer……
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Qcells, Silfab, JA top SolarReviews 2024 solar panel ranking
SolarReviews released its annual solar panel brand ranking list, and Qcells has been crowned the top solar panel brand for the second year in a row. “2023 was an interesting year for solar,” said Andy Sendy, president of SolarReviews, “with rising interest rates and changes to major state solar policies altering the industry landscape. It’s……