Photo: Arevon Arevon Energy has kicked off operations at Vikings Solar-plus-Storage – one of the US’s first utility-scale solar peaker plants. The $529 million project in Imperial County, California, near Holtville, features 157 megawatts of solar power paired with 150 megawatts/600 megawatt hours of battery storage. Vikings Solar-plus-Storage is designed to take cheap daytime solar power and…

Photo: Xcel Energy Xcel Energy has started delivering clean energy from one of the US’s largest solar farms: Sherco Solar in Minnesota. It’s a major step in the utility’s push to ditch coal and move to renewable energy across the Upper Midwest. Sherco Solar, which recently began generating power, will eventually have a massive capacity…

Photo: Eco Wave Power Eco Wave Power (Nasdaq: WAVE) has secured the final permit from the US Army Corps of Engineers to install its first onshore wave energy system in the US at AltaSea’s site in the Port of Los Angeles. This pilot project will be the first of its kind in the US. The…

Image: Penske Truck Leasing Penske Truck Leasing is rolling out rooftop solar on its US truck leasing, rental, and maintenance buildings, starting in Illinois. Penske Truck Leasing, which offers an electric truck fleet leasing program, wants to cut emissions and save energy, so it’s activated its first rooftop solar system at its new facility in…

Corporate America is investing in clean energy at record levels, with tech giants taking the top spots for users of solar. Meta, Google, and Amazon are leading the charge in solar and battery storage adoption, according to the Solar Energy Industries Association’s (SEIA’s) latest “Solar Means Business” report. Meta continues to hold the…

Arizona’s grid is getting a huge 200 MW Tesla lithium-ion battery energy storage system to support the state’s growing energy demand. Utility Salt River Project (SRP) and Flatland Storage, a subsidiary of EDP Renewables North America, are launching the Flatland Energy Storage Project, which will help SRP meet the growing energy demands of Arizona’s…

Monta, a Copenhagen-based platform for the electric vehicle (EV) charging ecosystem, announced the opening of its U.S. headquarters in Miami, FL. The company said it plans to connect 25,000 commercial charge points to its platform by the end of 2025 and 1 million charge points by the end of 2030. By the end of 2025,…

China just connected its largest single-capacity solar farm built on a former coal mining area, which is in the Gobi Desert, to the grid. The Mengxi Blue Ocean Photovoltaic Power Station, located in Otog Front Banner, Ordos, Inner Mongolia, came online on November 5. With a massive installed capacity of 3 gigawatts (GW) and…

Photo: Joint Office of Energy and Transportation The first EV charging hub funded by the Charging and Fueling Infrastructure (CFI) Program in the Eastern US is now online in Deerfield, Massachusetts. The town installed the region’s first DC fast chargers (four ports), along with four Level 2 chargers, at 59 North Main Street in…

China just connected its largest single-capacity solar farm built on a former coal mining area, which is in the Gobi Desert, to the grid. The Mengxi Blue Ocean Photovoltaic Power Station, located in Otog Front Banner, Ordos, Inner Mongolia, came online on November 5. With a massive installed capacity of 3 gigawatts (GW) and…