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Edhat | May 27, 2020

On the eve of a holiday weekend and during a global pandemic, the Trump administration last week approved a new oil well and pipeline in Carrizo Plain National Monument. It would be the first well drilled in the monument since it was established in 2001. The Bureau of Land Management originally approved the well and pipeline two years ago but withdrew that approval in July 2019 after Los Padres ForestWatch and Center for Biological Diversity filed objections. The conservation groups cited the we...

The Carlyle Group | January 29, 2020

Private equity giant Carlyle Group intends to invest US$100 million in developing, acquiring, financing and operating US solar projects through a new partnership with Missouri-based firm Alchemy Renewables. The Carlyle Group will invest through its new affiliate, Cardinal Renewables. Alchemy Renewables will provide asset management services, place tax equity financing and manage operations and maintenance services while Cardinal Renewables will acquire projects. Alchemy Renewables claims it has ...

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EDP Renewables | May 22, 2021

EDP Renewables, a global leader within the renewable energy sector and the world’s fourth-largest renewable energy producer, through its subsidiary EDP Renewables North America LLC, has started commercial operation of the 209 MW “Reloj del Sol” wind farm. The wind farm has begun producing power in Zapata County, Texas. “Reloj del Sol” will help strengthen Texas’s grid and is estimated to supply approximately $36 million in direct payments to loc...

Energy Storage News | March 18, 2020

Just over one in 10 US states now has a deployment target in place for energy storage, with Nevada now aiming for 1,000MW by 2030. With Virginia now also teetering on the edge of adopting an ambitious target, US national Energy Storage Association (ESA) Kelly Speakes-Backman said Nevada, in becoming the sixth state to adopt a target, had “distinguished itself as an energy storage leader”. A docket from the Public Utilities Commission of Nevada (PUC) adopted as a permanent regulation the biennial...