Tag: utility
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Dominion Energy Virginia petition approved for solar power purchase in Virginia
The State Corporation Commission (SCC) approved two prudency petitions from Dominion Energy Virginia for new renewable projects. One petition is related to a 12-megawatt offshore wind construction project to be located nearly 27 miles off the coast of Virginia Beach. The other is related to an agreement to purchase solarRead More — Solar Builder magazine
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Solar Builder 2018 Silver Project of the Year: Annapolis Renewable Energy Park
This year’s Silver Project of the Year, the 18-MW Annapolis Renewable Energy Park, is an 80-acre monument to the virtues of civic collaboration. The project’s 54,000 solar panels will generate over 20,000 MWh of clean electricity each year (enough to power more than 12 percent of the city’s homes), generateRead More — Solar Builder magazine
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Internet of Energy update: Google, Stanford, SunTech to collaborate on new DER, customer load controllers
SunTech Drive is part of a new collaboration with both Stanford University and Google that is tied to the Department of Energy’s NODES (Networks of Distributed Energy Systems) initiative. The objective is to coordinate and control consumer loads and distributed energy resources (DERs) out to the absolute edge of theRead More — Solar Builder magazine
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California’s Peninsula Clean Energy breaks ground on 200-MW solar project
California’s largest solar installation built exclusively for a Community Choice Aggregation (CCA) agency broke ground in California’s Central Valley last week. Peninsula Clean Energy (PCE), the electricity provider for 290,000 San Mateo County customers, expects the 200-megawatt utility-scale Wright Solar project to come online in late 2019. “This is aRead More — Solar Builder magazine
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This just-commissioned Vermont landfill solar site was more than five years in the making
The Brattleboro, Vermont, landfill solar project was energized on June 30, 2018 and is now producing clean, renewably generated electricity. Officials from Windham Solid Waste Management District, along with multiple towns, schools and non-profits securing financial benefits associated with the project, celebrated its commissioning at a ribbon cutting ceremony today.Read More — Solar Builder magazine