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Amazon signs PPA for full capacity of 100-MW Mississippi solar project

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[ad_1] EDP Renewables North America has launched its Ragsdale Solar Park in Madison Country, Mississippi. The 100 MW project, which became operational in late 2024, will provide power to Entergy Mississippi’s transmission system. Amazon has contracted for the full energy off-take of the system through a 15-year power purchase agreement (PPA). Credit: EDP Renewables North […]

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Oregon Utility Signs on to Back 120 MW Solar Development

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[ad_1] The Pachwáywit Fields solar installation in Gilliam County, Ore. Avangrid Inc. and Portland General Electric have signed a power purchase agreement (PPA) for Tower Solar, a new 120 MW AC solar energy project now under construction in Morrow County, Ore., in collaboration with QTS and Meta. The facility will deliver energy to Portland General

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VDE unveils Hail Risk Atlas to help solar developers forecast economic risk related to hail loss

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[ad_1] Catastrophic risk advisor VDE Americas today launched its VDE Hail Risk Atlas. Designed to forecast the economic risk of solar assets due to hail loss, VDE’s suite of Hail Risk Intelligence products and services for solar developers, insurers and investors paves the way for more defensible, financeable and insurable projects. The VDE Hail Risk

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17 solar, storage projects to be sited on former coal mines in the Appalachians

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[ad_1] The Nature Conservancy and the Cumberland Forest Limited Partnership have announced new agreements with Sun Tribe Development and ENGIE to develop 14 solar energy and three battery storage projects on 360 acres of former coal mines in the Appalachians. This is the second round of clean energy project announcements from TNC’s Cumberland Forest Project

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ACCURE’s AI software deployed on four Texas energy storage projects

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[ad_1] Battery safety and performance software provider ACCURE Battery Intelligence will deploy its AI predictive analytics platform to optimize four Texas energy storage projects. Together, they have a capacity of 730 MW and are part of a battery energy storage-focused investment strategy at UBS Asset Management. In 2022, UBS Asset Management acquired four Electric Reliability

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Grid-scale ESS Smartstack from Fluence maxes at 7.5 MWh energy density

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[ad_1] The Smartstack energy storage platform from Fluence Energy is now commercially available for grid-scale applications. Deliveries of the AC-based system are scheduled to begin in in Q4 2025. Smartstack’s patent-pending design strategically splits battery storage systems into units with easily transportable weight and dimensions, reducing shipping constraints and installation complexity. Onsite, the system maximizes

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Trina’s 2,000-V solar panel granted UL 61730 certification

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[ad_1] Trinasolar announced that UL Solutions has granted Trina’s Vertex N 2,000-V solar panel UL 61730 certification. A comparison of wafer sizes used in large-format modules. Credit: Trinasolar UL 61730 is the updated version of UL 1703, the “Standard for Photovoltaic (PV) Module Safety Qualification.” The Vertex N 2,000-V is the first 210R panel to

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