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Modern Energy Invests Millions in Industrial Sun

Wade Gungoll & Dan Seif are Industrial Sun’s cofounders and co-managing director. Modern Energy invested $30 million in the launch of Industrial Sun, a utility-scale solar developer based in Austin, and its multi-year deployment. “Modern’s experience developing, aggregating, and marketing assets across multiple technologies and regulatory regimes, along with their track record for building novel […]

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Palmetto Maps Solar Coverage of More Than 100 Million Buildings

Palmetto’s Mapdwell division has mapped the solar potential and energy load profiles of over 107 million rooftops – approximately 75% of all U.S. buildings equating to 81% of the U.S. population – using its proprietary technology. Mapdwell, which was acquired by Palmetto on April 20, 2021, also licenses the data via application programming Interfaces (APIs),

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McCarthy Starts Construction on Leeward’s Rabbitbrush Solar Project

McCarthy Building Companies Inc. has been selected by Leeward Renewable Energy to be the EPC contractor (engineering. procurement and construction). This contract will allow Leeward Renewable Energy to build its Rabbitbrush Solar project. It is a 100MW facility with a 20 MW, 50MWh energy storage system. The project will include more than 415,000 First Solar

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Recurrent Energy Sells 150 MW AC Virginia Solar Project

Canadian Solar Inc.’s wholly-owned subsidiary, Recurrent Energy LLC has completed a purchase and sale agreement with Appalachian Power for Recurrent’s Firefly Energy solar project, located in Pittsylvania County, Va. With a capacity of 150 MW AC, the Firefly project will be Appalachian Power’s largest solar energy acquisition to date and will help the utility meet

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Bill Parsons Chosen as American Clean Power Association’s VP for Federal and State Affairs

Bill Parsons Bill Parsons has been named as American Clean Power Association’s (ACP) new vice president for federal and state affairs. Parsons brings over two decades of legislative experience and policy expertise, both in Congress and for the renewable energy sector. In this newly created role, Parsons will lead ACP’s federal and state policy efforts.

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