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PRNewswire | August 17, 2023

Origis Energy, one of America's leading renewable energy platforms, announced today the close of a $750 million construction warehouse facility. The facility will fund large scale solar and energy storage project construction totaling approximately 2 gigawatts (GW) across 15 states over the next three years. Today's announcement follows the March 2023 close of an upsizing amendment to the company's $750 million development finance facility. The new warehou...

BLM | January 20, 2020

The U.S. Bureau of Land Management has approved a $1 billion solar project in Southern California. The Desert Quartzite Solar Project would be located near the city of Blythe in eastern Riverside County. The record of decision signed by the BLM authorizes Desert Quartzite LLC, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Arizona-based First Solar, to construct, operate, maintain and decommission the 450-megawatt solar photovoltaic project on about 3,000 acres of public land plus additional private lands. That i...

Energy, Products

LyondellBasell | August 01, 2022

LyondellBasell announced it has made another step forward in its journey to net zero greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. The company signed two additional long-term renewable electricity power purchase agreements (PPA) with Buckeye Partners for a total of 165 megawatts (MW) to be sourced from Buckeye's solar farms currently under construction in north Texas. This announcement is another example of the progress LyondellBasell is making towards achieving its 2030 goal of procuring at least half, a...

Sustainability

Solar developer | November 18, 2020

The AES Corporation reported a concurrence with Alberta Investment Management Corporation (AIMCo) to consolidate the sPower advancement stage, a free U.S. sun based engineer, with AES's U.S.- based clean energy advancement business. AES's completely claimed clean energy improvement business incorporates AES Distributed Energy and a breeze advancement group earlier piece of Advance Energy. As states, networks and associations make duties and arrangement to lessen their carb...