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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...

Economic Times | February 21, 2020

The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission on Thursday issued a suite of orders that will require subsidized energy storage and renewable power resource providers to meet a price floor in New York state's capacity market, making it harder for them to compete with fossil fuel plants. The move, which environmental groups said effectively bolsters fossil fuel generators by forcing renewable resource providers to pay a premium in the capacity market, follows a similar FERC order in December that appli...

BlackRock | January 27, 2020

The world’s largest asset manager has a new multibillion-dollar renewable energy fund in the works, and a good chunk of it may go to batteries. Long a major global investor in wind and solar energy, BlackRock has more recently begun buying into energy storage projects — including its acquisition last year of GE’s distributed solar and storage business. Looking out over the next few years, energy storage is one market “where we’ll see the opportunity set expand,” said Martin Torres, managing dire...

Energy

Monolith | December 28, 2021

Monolith, a leader in clean materials production, announced it has received conditional approval for a $1.04 billion loan from the U.S. Department of Energy (D.O.E.). Established via the Title XVII Innovative Energy Loan Guarantee Program, the loan will allow Monolith to expand its clean hydrogen and carbon black production facilities in Hallam, Nebraska, U.S.A. Reaching the ambitious goal of global decarbonization by 2050 will require the innovation of Ameri...