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Walmart announced to invest in 74 Solar Landscape community solar projects in MD and IL, creating nearly 43 MWDC of solar capacity.

Walmart invests in 74 rooftop community solar projects in two states

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Walmart announced it will invest in 74 Solar Landscape community solar projects in Maryland and Illinois.

The commercial rooftop projects are currently under construction and are expected to be energized in 2024 and 2025. They will create nearly 43 MWDC of solar capacity for the surrounding communities, enough power to serve the equivalent of over 3,600 homes.

Approximately half of the portfolio is designed to reduce energy costs for low- and moderate-income (LMI) households. In total, Solar Landscape estimates that the projects will save subscribers about $1 million annually on energy bills.

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Source: Solar Power World

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US installed solar capacity has grown 34% since the second quarter of 2023, with more than 110,000 MW of projects now operating.

US utility solar market has grown 34% since Q2 2023

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Developers continued to take advantage of the Inflation Reduction Act in the second quarter as they added utility-scale solar projects in the United States at a record pace.

There was 7,369 MW of solar installed in the quarter, a 49% increase from the first quarter, according to data from S&P Global Market Intelligence. U.S. installed solar capacity has grown 34% since the second quarter of 2023, with more than 110,000 MW of projects now operating.

Developers plan to add more than 40,292 MW of solar this year, with 3,727 MW announced, 14,548 MW in early development, 1,473 MW in advanced development and 20,543 MW under construction. There is nearly 233,000 MW additional solar capacity in development in the U.S. through 2028, according to Market Intelligence data.

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Source: Solar Power World

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The sites fight climate change and can help with another global crisis: the collapse of nature. But so far, efforts to nurture wildlife habitat have been spotty.

Solar farms have a superpower beyond clean energy

It’s not your average solar farm.

The glassy panels stand in a meadow. Wildflowers sway in the breeze, bursts of purple, pink, yellow, orange and white among native grasses. A monarch butterfly flits from one blossom to the next. Dragonflies zip, bees hum and goldfinches trill.

As solar projects unfurl across the United States, sites like this one in Ramsey, Minn., stand out because they offer a way to fight climate change while also tackling another ecological crisis: a global biodiversity collapse, driven in large part by habitat loss.

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Source: The New York Times

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The company confirmed on Tuesday that JERA Nex has announced a major expansion of its operational footprint in the US.

Japan’s largest power firm expands US footprint with 395MW solar farms acquisition

JERA Nex, the dedicated global renewable energy business subsidiary of Japan’s largest power company JERA, has announced a major expansion of its operational footprint in the U.S.

The company confirmed on Tuesday that it had acquired its first two solar projects stateside with a total capacity of 395MW from Lightsource BP. They include the 300MW Oxbow solar farm in Louisiana, the largest in the state, and the 95MW Happy solar farm in Arkansas.

It is first transaction by JERA Nex since the London-headquartered subsidiary’s launch in April. Both signatories to the deal said Lightsource BP has “worked closely with local communities” in both U.S. states to develop the sites.

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Source: Forbes

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Bridge Renewable Energy, Solaris Energy and WATTMORE closed an 1.8MW of solar+storage projects on the Rincon Reservation

Solar+storage project for Rincon Reservation underway

Bridge Renewable Energy, Solaris Energy and WATTMORE have closed on 1.8 MW of solar and storage projects across multiple facilities on the Rincon Reservation in San Diego County, Calif.

Solaris Energy and WATTMORE co-developed the project and used combined incentives from the Inflation Recovery Act, with the intention of maximizing the economics and impact for both the Tribe and Bridge Renewable Energy.

“We are thrilled to have reached this milestone and are grateful for our partnership with the Rincon Tribe,” says Bridge Renewable Energy’s Adam Haughton.

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Source: Solar Industry

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The US Bureau of Land Management (BLM) is pursuing the development of nine solar PV projects with a combined capacity of over 6.2GW.

US Bureau of Land Management advances 6.2GW of solar projects

The US Bureau of Land Management (BLM) is pursuing the development of nine solar PV projects with a combined capacity of over 6.2GW.

The flagship development is the Esmerelda 7 solar and battery energy storage system (BESS) project, which comprises seven utility-scale solar facilities with a combined 5.35GW of generation capacity. The sites would be deployed on 118,000 acres of public lands in Nevada, near the historic mining town of Tonopah. All of the seven sites would be paired with BESS, though the BLM did not disclose the storage capacity or duration.

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Source: PV Tech

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Eurostar has promised to power its trains with 100% renewable energy by 2030. Plan was laid out in the company’s first sustainability report

Eurostar promises to power its trains with 100% renewable energy by 2030

In one European country, its trains have already been running entirely on wind power since 2017.

Eurostar has promised to power its trains with 100 per cent renewable energy by 2030.

The plan was laid out in the company’s first sustainability report, released on Tuesday.

It details plans to reduce energy use, source renewable power, minimise waste and promote train travel as a greener alternative to flying.

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Source: Euro News

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Solar, wind and battery storage accounted for nearly 95% of the capacity in transmission interconnection queues as of year-end 2023.

1100 GW solar and 1000 GW storage now await transmission interconnection

By year-end 2023, 1086 GW of solar projects awaited transmission interconnection, along with 503 GW of standalone storage, according to preliminary data from Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL). The amount of storage in hybrid projects, such as solar-plus-storage projects, awaiting interconnection at year-end was estimated at 525 GW by LBNL, based on imputed values for missing data when storage capacity for hybrid projects was not reported.

The data were reported in a staff report from the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC).

LBNL’s preliminary values for all but one of the resource types awaiting interconnection are presented in the table below from the FERC staff report. The exception is hybrid storage, which FERC staff shows as 299 GW in the table, not LBNL’s preliminary 525 GW, because FERC staff excluded hybrid storage projects for which capacity was not reported.

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Source: PV Magazine

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Walmart is investing in 19 solar projects under development across the US, including 15 community solar projects.

Walmart just funded 15 community solar projects across the US

Walmart is investing in 19 solar projects under development across the US, including 15 community solar projects.

Walmart’s strategic tax equity investment will drive the construction, operation, and maintenance of solar projects across five states – Illinois, Colorado, Maryland, Delaware, and California.

As the American Council on Renewable Energy explains, tax equity investors provide funding to take advantage of the tax benefits and receive cash flows from the project, partnering with the project sponsor to become a partial owner of the project company.

In this case, Walmart is partnering with Colorado-based renewable energy provider Pivot Energy, and the retail giant’s tax equity investment will enable the construction of 72 megawatts (MW) of community solar projects. In Colorado, 41 MW of those projects will serve low and moderate-income homes.

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Source: electrek

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Meta has signed a 330MW solar Environmental Attributes Purchase Agreement (EAPA) with Adapture Renewables in Arkansas and Illinois.

Meta signs 330MW renewable energy agreements in Illinois and Arkansas

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Meta has signed a 330MW solar Environmental Attributes Purchase Agreement (EAPA) with Adapture Renewables in Arkansas and Illinois.

The social media giant will buy solar energy from three of Adapture Renewables’ solar projects that are currently under development in the two states.

The three solar projects are expected to have an economic impact of more than $400 million, creating 500 temporary jobs during construction and 25 full-time positions once operational.

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Source: Data Center Dynamics

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