Category: Green Building LEED News
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Enel selects Oklahoma for solar PV cell and module production
Enel North America, through its affiliate 3Sun USA, selected Inola, Okla., as the location for its U.S.-based solar PV manufacturing — a site that crucially will include cells and panels. This is an initial investment in excess of $1 billion and is anticipated to create around 1,000 new direct permanent jobs by 2025. Construction is……
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Polar Racking adds two U.S. manufacturing facilities
North American solar mounting solutions provider Polar Racking is riding the U.S. solar manufacturing wave and adding two U.S. facilities strategically located in Michigan and Florida. These new spots will help Polar Racking meet the growing demand for U.S. manufactured solar mounting solutions, reduce lead times, and help build the domestic solar industry market. “Expanding……
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Biden vetoes CRA legislation to repeal tariff moratorium
President Joe Biden vetoed a bill to remove his two-year moratorium on tariffs for imported solar panels. The joint resolution (H.J. Res. 39) was drafted by the U.S. House of Representatives Ways & Means Committee, which invoked the Congressional Review Act (CRA) to nullify the tariff pause on solar panels made in Cambodia, Malaysia, Thailand……
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DSD secures $75M in financing to support 61 MW of C&I projects
DSD Renewables has closed on $75 million in tax equity financing from Bank of America to support the company’s 2023 build plan. The funding will support the development and deployment of 61 MW of commercial and industrial (C&I) projects, as well as community solar and storage assets, across California, Connecticut, Illinois, New Jersey, New York,……
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Wisconsin solar project wins award for sustainable infrastructure
A 150 MW solar installation in Saratoga, Wisconsin, has was earned a sustainability award from the Institute for Sustainable Infrastructure (ISI). The ISI has bestowed its Envision Platinum award to Alliant Energy’s Wood County Solar Project, highlighting its contributions to sustainable development and clean and renewable energy. Built by integrated engineer-procure-construct (EPC) contractor Burns & McDonnell, the……