Tag: commercial and industrial
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Hydrite adds on-site solar array via Kuubix Construction Group
Chemical manufacturer Hydrite completed the installation of its first on-site solar array at the company’s Visalia, Calif., facility. The 126 kW solar photovoltaic system will provide roughly 16% of the location’s annual electricity consumption, offsetting nearly 50 tons of CO2e emissions annually. “Our investment in solar power affirms Hydrite’s commitment to sustainability, which is an……
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SolaREIT closes solar lease deal with Massachusetts’ largest cranberry grower
SolaREIT, a solar real estate investment fund, has closed a lease purchase for more than 125 acres of land with 31.46 MW of solar. The deal, with A.D. Makepeace Company, North America’s largest cranberry grower and the largest private property owner in eastern Massachusetts, is SolaREIT’s largest yet in Massachusetts. “Solar aligns with our company’s……
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Solid state battery startup eyeing 4 GWh of home, C&I installs in next 30 months
A manufacturer with a proprietary solid state battery technology is emerging from stealth mode this week with a plan to deliver up to 4 GW energy storage systems within the next 30 months. Amptricity, founded in 2020 and headquartered in Miami, expects residential systems to begin shipping in early 2023, with commercial 1 MWh ESS……
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FERC Order 2222 implementation ‘gaps’ present serious challenges, says Guidehouse Insights
In 2020, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) issued Order 2222 with the intent of opening regional transmission organization (RTO)/independent system operator (ISO) wholesale markets to aggregations of distributed energy and demand response resources (DER). Doing so would vastly expand the tools system operators can use to balance the transmission grid. Order 2222 also meant……
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South Portland, Maine, completes multi-phase solar project at capped landfill site
The City of South Portland, Maine, and ReVision Energy completed a 4.7 MW solar project at a capped landfill, estimated to offset 63 percent of the city’s municipal electric load. In total, more than 80% of the City’s municipal electric load will now be offset by solar. The three-phase project began way back in 2017……