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East Penn Manufacturing | January 15, 2020

East Penn Manufacturing produces 160,000 automotive batteries per day at its plant near Lyons, the most prolific facility of its kind in the world. But as demand for renewable energy rises across the United States, Berks County's largest employer also strives to become the innovator and leader of new technologies. "East Penn is primarily a lead battery company," said Chris Pruitt, president and CEO of East Penn Manufacturing. "We think lead will be here for a long, long period of time — but ther...

SOLAR+STORAGE

GameChange Solar | May 05, 2021

GameChange Solar has announced the construction of a 631 MW Genius Tracker system in southern Texas. After completion, the system will be the largest solar PV project in the state and, eventually, one of the largest in the world. The project covers 4,000 acres in Wharton County and includes 1.4 million solar modules (just outside of the Houston Metropolitan area). This capacity can generate 500 MWac / 631 MWdc of renewable energy, enough to fuel 100,000 homes each year. Power generated at the pr...

Google | February 28, 2020

Google has revealed that its data centers are twice as energy efficient as a typical enterprise data center thanks to more than a decade worth of work spent on improving their energy usage and cooling. In addition to being the world's largest corporate purchaser of renewable energy, the search giant has also taken action on climate change by minimizing the amount of energy it uses in the first place. In a blog post detailing Google's work on making its data centers more energy efficient, the hea...

SOLAR+STORAGE

Enel Green Power | May 06, 2021

Enel, through its US renewable subsidiary Enel Green Power North America, has started construction on five new renewable energy projects in the US including Roseland solar + storage, Blue Jay solar + storage, Ranchland wind + storage, Alta Farms wind project and Rockhaven wind project. In addition, Enel will add 57 MW battery storage systems to two operational projects in Texas, the High Lonesome wind farm and Roadrunner solar farm. The new wind, solar and hybrid projects announced today, locate...