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  • Tenaska and Soltage have purchased a portfolio of distributed solar generation on the east coast of the United States. It is the two companies' first joint portfolio-level acquisition.
  • This week, SunEdison has driven a barrage of M&A and project finance activity involving more than 1.1 GW of wind assets across the U.S., Canada and Latin America.
  • First Solar has started construction on the 22 MW first phase of its Barilla solar project in Pecos County, Texas.
  • Canadian Solar is providing modules for the 10 MW Silvercreek solar project in Elgin County, Ontario, that is slated to be operational in July.
  • Elementa Group has arranged a 20-year power agreement with the Ontario Power Authority for its 10 MW waste-to-energy project in Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario.
  • The Quebec Office of Public Hearings on the Environment has determined that Invenergy does not need a public hearing over the C$69 million ($61.9 million), 21 MW des Moulins 2 wind project.
  • Republican Congressman Walter Jones has entered the discussions over Torch Renewable Energy’s proposed Mill Pond wind project near Newport, N.C.
  • Oil and gas giant BP is bullish on the role coal will play in meeting global energy demand.
  • Power companies such as the Shenandoah Valley Electric Cooperative and Dominion Virginia Power are asking residents to get prepared, with snow expected to cause havoc with the power supply as the precipitation turns to ice.
  • US Capital Partners has launched a project financing program for clean energy projects under 20 MW.
  • Brayton Point Energy, the owner of New England’s largest coal-fired facility will decide next week whether to delay its closing—slated for 2017—now that ISO New England has designated the plant as a “must run” facility.
  • Xcel Energy has closed the Monticello nuclear plant for several days as workers repair a leaking heat exchanger on the reactor’s coolant system.
  • The U.S. Army has scheduled two community meetings in Mililani and Wahiawa, Hawaii, next month to gather public comment on a proposed 50 MW biofuels project planned for Schofield Barracks on the island of Oahu.
  • A wind turbine at NextEra Energy Resources’ Mill Run Energy Center in Pennsylvania has fallen over.
  • Wind generation in Ontario more than doubled between 2009 and 2013 going from 2.3 TWh to 5.2 TWh, according to the Independent Electricity System Operator.
  • The city of Edmonton, Alberta, is switching from Capital Power to Enmax as its power supplier.
  • A Colorado Senate committee is proposing rollbacks to the state’s renewable energy mandate, citing concerns that the additional renewable generation is rapidly increasing power prices in the state.
  • Basin Electric Power CEO Andy Serri has resigned and Paul Sukut, cfo, has been named interim ceo.
  • Two Pennsylvania lawmakers are questioning PJM’s decision that two coal-fired plants being taken offline by FirstEnergy would have no impact on reliability after the recent cold weather, when consumers were asked to conserve power.
  • Tokyo Electric Power and other Japanese generators and gas companies are uniting to buy liquefied natural gas.
  • Indiana state Sen. Jim Merritt is introducing a bill that would allow utilities to build nuclear generation and pass construction costs along to ratepayers.
  • Invenergy and the U.S. Department of Defense have reached an agreement about wind turbine placement at the Pantego project near the Seymour Johnson Air Force Base in North Carolina.
  • PwC US has appointed Michael Casey Herman as its U.S. power and utilities leader, Timothy Schutt U.S. power and utilities advisory leader and Robin Miller U.S power and utilities tax leader.
  • The Maine Public Services Commission is holding a meeting Tuesday to hear an offshore wind proposal from the Maine Aqua Ventus, a consortium comprised of Emera, Cianbro and Maine Prime Technologies that aims to sell 12 MW at $0.23 per kWh.
  • Ameren Missouri is developing a 5.7 MW solar project on a site next to a substation in O’Fallon, Mo.
  • Alliant Energy is planning to spend about $17 million this year to reduce mercury emissions from its Burlington coal-fired facility in Burlington, Iowa.
  • Iowa Governor Terry Branstad will lead a group of senior state officials from Iowa and the Midwest to organize and host a public hearing allowing citizens outside of Washington, D.C., the opportunity to testify about the importance of renewable portfolio standards.
  • A proposed 78-mile, high-voltage transmission line that would run through Otsego and Delaware Counties, N.Y., is generating concern from some local officials.
  • Of the 365 solar applications filed with the U.S. federal government since 2009, just 20 projects are on track to be built, with industry analysts identifying difficulties in lining up financing as one of the prime reasons.
  • Fishermen's Energy, a developer based in Cape May, N.J., is awaiting word from state regulators about the future of New Jersey's first offshore wind farm.