Photo: National Grid Renewables National Grid Renewables just brought South Dakota’s largest solar farm online in Pennington County. Wild Springs is a 128-megawatt (MW) solar farm in the Southwest Power Pool, which manages the central US’s electric grid and wholesale power market. The solar farm has a 114 MW power purchase agreement with the utility…

Porsche Cars North America (PCNA) has signed an agreement with ChargePoint, which will enable access to its charging network within the Porsche charging service. According to the companies, the collaboration will increase the number of chargers available to Porsche customers to more than 86,000 drivers across the United States. …

Photo by Amol Mande on Pexels.com The Pew Research Center surveyed Americans about how they feel about local wind and solar development in their communities – this is what they found. Wind and solar in Americans’ backyards As a whole, more Americans think wind or solar would help rather than hurt their local economy. But…

Toyota Motor North America, guided by its “Empact” vision to address equitable EV charging and mobility for all, has revealed the first communities that will receive DC fast chargers (DCFC), the communities include Baldwin Park, CA, and Sacramento, CA. According to Toyota, high-power 350kW chargers at each location are to be installed, owned and operated…

Image: Ampion Renewable Energy Over 130 Wendy’s restaurants in New York, Illinois, and Massachusetts are now sourcing between 30% and 100% of their energy from community solar. Community solar provider Ampion Renewable Energy is partnering with The Wendy’s Company to help nearly 100 company-operated restaurants and nearly 40 franchise restaurants source renewable energy. The participating…

Heliox has launched its new Heliox 60 charger. The 60kW EV charger is certified (UL2202, CSA C22.2, Energy Star) and made specifically for the North American market. Heliox said the Buy-American-compliant Heliox 60 represents an enhanced iteration of cost-effective, low-power DC charging and satisfies the majority of DC charging use cases today. …

https://unsplash.com/photos/solar-panels-on-green-field-513dBrMJ_5w State-owned power company China Three Gorges Renewables Group will build an 8 GW solar farm as part of a nearly $11 billion integrated energy project. To put the sheer size of the 8 GW solar farm in perspective, the three largest solar farms in the world by capacity are China’s Ningxia Tenggeli and Golmud…

Gilbarco Veeder-Root (GVR) has launched Konect – an EV recharging ecosystem designed specifically for the fuel retail industry. Launched recently at the UNITI Expo, GVR said Konect offers a unique, fully integrated, site-wide suite of market-leading EV charging hardware and software solutions for businesses wanting to install their own EV charging infrastructure while driving down…

Shell-EDF’s Atlantic Shores South is the US’s ninth commercial-scale, offshore wind farm approved under the Biden administration – Trump wants to cancel it.  Atlantic Shores South consists of two wind farms — Atlantic Shores Offshore Wind Project 1 and 2 — expected to generate up to 2,800 megawatts (MW) of electricity, enough to power nearly…

Energy Vault Holdings and Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM) announced a global exclusive gravity energy storage partnership. SOM is responsible for designing some of the world’s most well-known buildings, including Burj Khalifa, Tianjin CTF Finance Centre, Willis Tower, and One World Trade Center. As part of this partnership, SOM will be the exclusive architect and…