July 2022

Renewco Expands into U.S. Market with Portfolio Buy from Beaufort Rosemary

Gavin McCallum Renewco Power expands its platform into the U.S. through the acquisition of a 1.5GW pipeline of utility-scale, early-stage solar projects along with 500 MW battery storage projects from Beaufort Rosemary (Virginia-based developer). As part of the deal, the Scottish-based renewable power business is also forming a partnership with Beaufort Rosemary to jointly develop

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Onward Energy Acquires 11 Solar Energy Projects from Global Atlantic

Anup Agarwal Onward Energy has agreed to buy 100% of the equity shares in a 1,171 MW operating portfolio of solar panels from Global Atlantic Financial Group. The portfolio comprises 11 projects in eight states. It will be the largest renewable investment in Onward Energy’s history, further expanding the company’s portfolio

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NREL Scientists Delve into Reducing Carbon Impact of PV Technology

Flatirons Campus, NREL. 1 MW photovoltaic array. (Photo by Werner Slocum, NREL). In their new paper in Joule, “Embodied Energy and Carbon from the Manufacture of Cadmium Telluride and Silicon Photovoltaics,” National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) researchers Hope Wikoff, Samantha Reese and Matthew Reese focus on the two dominant deployed photovoltaic (PV) technologies: silicon (Si)

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Nelnet Acquires GRNE Solar EPC Company and Assets

Scott Gubbels Nelnet has acquired a controlling stake in affiliates of GRNE Solutions LLC (known as GRNE Solar), a Midwest-based solar engineering, procurement and construction (EPC). Nelnet also acquired certain assets from an affiliate GRNE, including some that are currently generating power, and others that are being built. GRNE designs and builds residential, commercial, and

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Jupiter Power 200 MW/200 MWh battery storage facility now online in Texas

Crossett’s battery storage project in Crane County Texas (Source : Jupiter Power). Jupiter Power’s 200 MW/200 MWh standalone battery storage facility is now commercially operable. Crossett Power Management, located in Crane County, Texas, now becomes one of the largest battery storage projects in ERCOT, the grid operator representing 90 percent of the state’s electric load. Crossett

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