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Electric Vehicle Charging And Energy Storage Are Ideal Grid Allies

Americas, Asia Pacific, Carbon, Head Lines

Greenlots and Hawaiian Electric Company have demonstrated how an electric vehicle (EV) fast charger combined with energy storage can support Electric Vehicle (EV) initiatives, significantly increasing EV drivers’ “range confidence”. An innovative fast charger allows electric vehicle owners to get up to an 80 percent charge in as little as 30 minutes. Drivers can easily locate the fast-charge stations and charge using the Greenlots mobile app and pay for a charge through the app or by using a credit card, much as at a self-service petrol/gasoline pump.

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SkyPower Secures 200MW Projects In Rapidly Growing Indian Solar Energy Sector

Asia Pacific, Deals & Finance, Head Lines

The Agreement consolidates SkyPower’s advance in India, one of the fastest growing solar markets in the world. Over recent months, it has secured 400MW of Solar PV projects around India, positioning it strongly to capitalise on the most significant international opportunity at present; that of the Government of India’s 100GW solar target for 2022. Kerry Adler, SkyPower’s CEO, stated, “SkyPower is committed to making a powerful contribution to India’s goal of generating 100 GW of solar power by 2022, while the people of Telangana will benefit from clean, reliable and affordable energy”.

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California’s Electric Vehicles and Support Infrastructure To Increase Rapidly

Americas, Head Lines, Most Popular, Policy

San Diego Gas & Electric’s (SDG&E) will install charging stations at up to 350 businesses and communities in the region, with 10 chargers at each location for a total of 3,500 separate chargers. It will install at least 10 percent of the chargers in disadvantaged communities. The project overcomes many obstacles to EV growth and reassures local EV drivers that they’ll have a place to charge their vehicles. With SDG&E’s energy portfolio being made up of 33% percent renewable energy and zero coal, drivers will be plugging into one of the cleanest electric grids in the country.

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Rooftop Solar Revolution? Giga Solar Announces Successful Test Results

Americas, Head Lines, Most Popular, Technology

The results are from a groundbreaking project aiming to develop a suite of technologies that make the process of buying, installing, and connecting rooftop solar energy systems faster, easier, safer, and less expensive. The high-efficiency, crystalline-silicon, lightweight modules enable innovative, low-cost rooftop mounting methods. As they are glass-free and frameless, they can be flush-mounted directly onto the roof, avoiding the need for racking hardware, eliminating roof penetrations, and shortening the installation time. These benefits all contribute to lowering the cost of solar electricity. In addition to these benefits, the reduced module weight decreases transportation costs and improves ease of handling. The implications are highly significant in both developed and early stage markets – worldwide.

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First Reserve Acquires Mariah North Wind In First Phase Of 600MW Development

Americas, Head Lines, Wind

One of the largest global private equity and infrastructure investment firms, First Reserve is strongly advancing it’s interests in the clean energy sectors, with this being the first of future wind and solar phases of the $1 billion Mariah Renewable Energy Center. The project will also construct and own a 27 mile, 345 kV transmission line to interconnect with the ERCOT CREZ system and is expected to be operational by the end of 2016. Partners in the project include HSBC, Citigroup and General Electric.

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H2O Power Surges With Acquisition of 31MW Hydroelectric Facilities In PJM Market

Americas, Carbon, Head Lines, Hydro

The Allegheny 8 & 9 facilities have a 31.5MW capacity located on the Allegheny River in Armstrong and Indian Counties, Pennsylvania, within the Pennsylvania-Jersey-Maryland known (PJM) Interconnection. The assets are interconnected into the New York Independent System Operator in the PJM Interconnection Power Market. The capacity and energy generated by the Allegheny 8 & 9 facilities are sold to New York State Electric & Gas Corporation under a long-term power purchase agreement.

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Invenergy Announces 120 MW Wind Power Agreement with 3M

Americas, Deals & Finance, Head Lines

Leading renewable energy producer Invenergy has announced a partnership with 3M to reduce emissions through wind power, increasing it’s corporate off-site renewable energy procurement activities. The sector has nearly tripled from 2014 to 2015 with more than 3,400MW announced. Together with a other Purchase Agreements (PPA) announced with Google and other Fortune 500 companies, this brings Invenergy’s total corporate customer renewable energy portfolio to 570MW. 2016 is expected to be another strong year for clean energy corporate power procurement.

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JinkoSolar Agrees Largest US Contract to supply 1GW Solar PV Modules To sPower

Americas, Asia Pacific, Deals & Finance, Europe/Middle East/Africa, Head Lines

China’s JinkoSolar has just agreed it’s largest US contract. It’s to supply up to 1GW, over three million of its high efficiency solar pv modules, to sPower before the end of 2016. The timing of the agreement is seen as highly significant in light of the recent extension by the US Federal Government of Investment Tax Credits for utility-scale solar development. The agreement also strengthens JinkoSolar, which currently has, 15,000 employees, 12 offices and 5 production facilities, globally.

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FERC Awards Licences to FFP New Hydro for $100m Muskingum River Projects

Americas, Energy, Head Lines, Hydro

The four projects have a combined generating capacity of 15MW. FFP New Hydro also has final license applications pending for two more projects on the Muskingum River. The projects represent an investment of more than $100 million and each project will create 100 to 150 jobs during construction as well as continued service employment during operations. Clean, reliable electricity from the projects will power over 7,500 homes and businesses as a long term resource for the region.

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RES Sells 198MW Bluestem Wind Project to Exelon – Powers Google Data Centers

Americas, Deals & Finance, Head Lines

The project will consist of 60 Vestas 3.3MW V117 wind turbine generators and construction will begin immediately. It will provide up to 300 jobs during it’s peak, and is scheduled to be completed at the end of 2016, generating an approximate 845,000 MWh per year to the Southern Power Pool electrical system – enough to power over 77,000 U.S. homes. A power purchase agreement for the project has been executed with Google, as part of the drive to power it’s data centres with clean energy.

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