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Broad Reach Power | November 03, 2021

Broad Reach Power LLC, an independent power producer based in Houston which owns a 21-gigawatt (GW) portfolio of utility-scale wind, solar and energy storage power projects across the United States, today announced its first two transmission-level projects, North Fork and Bat Cave, are online and placed in service with ERCOT. Each project is a 100-megawatt (MW)/100-megawatt-hour (MWh) Greenfield battery storage resource located in Central Texas. Broad Reach now has 300 MW of dispatchable storage...

Renewables Now | March 25, 2020

Nearly all of Hawaii’s utility-scale battery storage capacity is installed with onshore wind turbines or solar photovoltaic (PV) systems, allowing excess electricity from those generators to be stored and used later, according to a report by the US Energy Information Administration (EIA). As of January 2020, about 30% of Hawaii’s total generating capacity is solar or wind. The non-dispatchable nature of these technologies creates operational challenges for system operators. Pairing batteries wit...

Solar+Storage

Accela | May 09, 2022

Accela®, the trusted provider of cloud solutions for government, today announced that the online solar permitting platform launched in partnership with the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) SolarAPP+ (Solar Automated Permit Processing Plus), was selected by Fast Company for its World Changing Ideas Award 2022. The Fast Company World Changing Idea Awards™ honors products, concepts, companies, policies, and designs pursuing innovation for t...

Energy

Branch Energy | January 13, 2022

Branch Energy, a technology-focused green energy provider, and ENGIE Energy Marketing, NA, Inc, a subsidiary of ENGIE S.A., announced a $40M strategic non-dilutive wholesale power supply facility. The agreement will provide Branch Energy with access to U.S. wholesale energy markets and working capital, as well as the ability to leverage ENGIE Energy Marketing's extensive renewable energy platform. Branch Energy both sells electricity with an easy-to-use platform and leverages ...