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Comvest Credit Partners has provided a $70 million senior credit facility to Nationwide Energy Partners (NEP) to pay off debt and develop utility infrastructure projects.
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Telecom Argentina has signed 2 power purchase agreements (PPA) to supply its operations and Pacheco datacenter with renewable power.
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Connecticut utility Eversource plans to reduce investments in the state by $500 million as it continues its 3-year rate dispute battle with the State's Public Utilities Regulatory Authority (PURA).
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CPS Energy has signed a long-term power purchase agreement (PPA) with Constellation for 200MW of capacity beginning summer 2024.
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Lightshift Energy is set to build up to 50MW of battery storage projects for the Massachusetts Municipal Wholesale Electric Company (MMWEC) grid in a first-of-its-kind program.
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Southern Power has signed a virtual power purchase agreement (VPPA) with a consortium of 7 companies for the renewable energy credits (RECs) produced by the 180MW Millers Branch Solar Facility Phase II in Haskell County, Texas.
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Brookfield Asset Management – alongside Brookfield Renewable – and Microsoft have signed a global renewable energy framework agreement to meet the technology company’s sustainability goals.
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The New Jersey Board of Utilities (NJBPU) has opened the application process for its fourth offshore wind solicitation, targeting up to 4GW.
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The New York State Energy Research Development Authority (NYSERDA) has awarded conditional agreements to utility-scale onshore renewables projects totalling 2.4GW.
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The Governor's Energy Office of Maine has released a request for information (RFI) regarding the state's first utility-scale offshore wind auction, totalling 3GW.
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The Department of Energy (DOE) selected LS Power's Southwest Intertie Project-North (SWIP-North) as a fourth conditional project for the first round of its Transmission Facilitation Program.
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Central Coast Community Energy (3CE), a California community choice aggregator, has issued a request for proposals (RFP) for clean energy and storage power purchase agreements (PPAs).
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Norwegian renewable energy provider Scatec and energy company Statkraft have signed a power purchase agreement (PPA) for a solar plant in Brazil.
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The Hyundai Motor Group has signed a 15-year solar power purchase agreement (PPA) with Matrix Renewables.
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Microsoft's Climate Innovation Fund has invested in sustainable fuels technology business and clean fuels producer LanzaJet.
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The New York State Energy Research and Development Authority (NYSERDA) plans to deploy $500 million in investment commitments to establish an offshore wind supply chain in New York State.
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The University of Dayton and AES Ohio have entered into a power purchase agreement (PPA) for a waste-to-energy project that will provide the University with 100% of its power.
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US-based firm Bernhard has entered a 30-year energy-as-a-service (EaaS) partnership with Hackensack Meridian Health (HMH), resulting in a $134 million solar energy and battery storage system.
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Solar manufacturer Maxeon Solar Technologies has filed another patent infringement lawsuit regarding its PV solar cell technology in Texas.
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Clearway Energy Group has closed a $174 million project financing and finalised a power purchase agreement (PPA) for its Dan's Mountain wind farm in Western Maryland.
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The New York State Energy Research and Development Authority (NYSERDA) has closed its 2022 solicitation tender with no final awards given after GE Vernova "caused material changes" by changing its turbine design for the projects.
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An Arizona federal judge has rejected a request by Native American tribes and environmental groups to halt the construction of Pattern Energy's SunZia project.
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Engie North America has inked an agreement to develop 12 renewable projects totalling 15GWh to power the facilities of technology and science company RTX.
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Colorado-based renewables company Scout Clean Energy has signed a 12-year virtual power purchase agreement (VPPA) with Zoetis for a 50MW portion of its Heart of Texas wind farm.
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Boeing is buying 9.4 million gallons of blended sustainable aviation fuel (SAF), for its ecoDemonstrator programme and 2024 US commercial operational flights, from Neste as offtake agreements in the sector ramp up.
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Arevon Energy has inked a long-term tolling agreement with electricity provider MCE for its 250MW Cormorant Energy Storage Project in Daly City, California.
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NextEra Energy has entered into an offtake agreement with wholesale power provider Guzman Energy and local electric cooperative Holy Cross Energy (HCE) for 100% of the capacity of its 200MW Bronco Plains II wind project in Colorado.
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Consumers Energy – Michigan’s largest power provider – has entered an agreement to provide electricity to 44 Walmart stores in the State.
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California Independent System Operator (CAISO) has announced that 2 of the offshore wind-related transmission processes will be part of a May 2024 competitive transmission procurement.
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The US offshore wind sector continues to gain momentum with the latest round of regulatory approvals as financiers begin to prep the paperwork to fund these mega projects.
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Verdagy has entered a global strategic agreement to deliver its green hydrogen electrolysis technology to renewables developer Doral in Europe, US, Australia and the Middle East through 2030.
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Engie has signed a virtual power purchase agreement (VPPA) with Sonoco, a sustainable packaging company, for 140MW of its 270MW Big Sampson Wind Project, which is under construction in Texas.
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Nuclear technology company Oklo has signed a long-term power purchase agreement (PPA) for a 50MW project with major oil producer Diamond Energy.
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United States Steel (US Steel) and carbon capture technology business CarbonFree have signed an agreement to capture CO2 emissions generated from US Steel’s Gary Works Blast Furnaces.
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Mitsubishi Power Americas-owned battery business Prevalon Energy has agreed to develop a 328MWh battery energy storage system (BESS) signed to a long-term service agreement with Idaho Power.
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Carbon removals and renewables company Drax Group has entered a CO2 capture deal with Karbon-X.
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Shell North America has sold its 50% stake in the 2.4GW proposed SouthCoast Wind project with its joint venture partner Ocean Winds North America.
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Leeward Renewable Energy (LRE) has signed 2 power purchase agreements (PPAs) for 200MW with Microsoft.
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Ørsted, Avangrid, and Vineyard Offshore among bidders of the 6GW to Massachusetts, Connecticut, and Rhode Island for the states' combined New England auction.
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Walmart has made a tax equity investment in a Pivot Energy community solar project portfolio, reaching its goal of supporting 1GW of renewable capacity across the US.
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EDP Renewables North America (EDPR NA) and superstore megachain Walmart have inked a 15-year power purchase agreement (PPA) for part of a 180MW solar project in Texas.
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Latin American asset manager Patria Investments is launching an energy trading and commercialisation platform in Brazil.
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Ørsted continues leadership changes after suffering significant impairments in 2023 from US offshore wind projects with the hire of Rasmus Errboe as deputy chief executive officer and chief commercial officer.
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Quinbrook Infrastructure Partners portfolio company Primergy Solar has signed a long-term power purchase agreement (PPA) with local utility San Diego Community Power (SDCP) for its 400MW/1.6GWh Purple Sage Energy Center, a solar-plus-storage project.
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Atlas Renewable Energy signs a power purchase agreement (PPA) for a battery energy storage system (BESS) the company operates in Chile.
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New Fortress Energy (NFE) has completed the acquisition and transfer of a 1.6GW capacity reserve contract from Ceiba Energy, a company of Denham Capital.
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Renewable developer Genneia has inked a power purchase agreement (PPA) with Shell in Argentina.
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EDP Renewables North America has partnered with Volt Energy Utility to develop the 110MW Hickory Solar Park, which has secured an agreement with Microsoft to purchase electricity and renewable credits (RECs).
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Renewables developer Arevon Energy has entered into a 15-year energy storage service agreement with local utility San Diego Community Power (SDPC) for its Avocet Energy Storage Project.
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Brazilian utility Cemig has signed a power purchase agreement (PPA) under a self-production model to supply wholesale company Mart Minas.
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Celsia Panama, an Argos group energy business, entered an agreement with Chevron of Panama to install and operate a 4.03MW solar plant to power the Bahía Las Minas, Colón fuel terminal.
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The Dominican Republic municipal organisation Grupo Puntacana and Caribbean-based developer Eurelius have signed an agreement to develop a large-scale solar project in Punta Cana, which will provide power for at least 50% of the city.
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Utility-scale solar and storage developer Primergy Solar has closed $588 million in debt financing from a consortium of banks for its 408MW/300WWh Ash Creek Solar and storage project in Hill County, Texas.
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A consortium of insurance companies has agreed to acquire a 76.5MW biomass-fuelled power plant sited in Berlin, New Hampshire, PFR has learned.
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Mining company SolGold has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with renewables developers to construct a 200MW hydro-solar project to power its Cascabel Project in Northern Ecuador.
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rPlus Energies has extended the power purchase agreement (PPA) on its utility-scale Green River Energy Centre with utility PacifiCorp from 400MWh to 1.6GWh.
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Renewable energy company Ormat Technologies has inked a geothermal power purchase agreement (PPA) in Guadeloupe.
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Arevon Energy has signed 2 long-term environmental attributes purchase agreements (EAPAs) with Meta for its 349MW Kelso Solar Project in Missouri.
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Mining company Codelco has awarded several long-term power purchase agreements (PPA) in Chile.
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Altius Renewable Royalties’ (ARR) jointly-owned subsidiary, Great Bay Renewables has entered into a $30 million royalty investment with Apex Clean Energy.
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Mammoth Energy Services has received $50.6 million from the Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority (PREPA) clearing the company's debt to the SPCP Group.
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New Fortress Energy (NFE) has inaugurated its Barcarena LNG terminal – part of a thermoelectric complex project in Barcarena, Pará state.
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The New York State Energy Research and Development Authority (NYSERDA) has issued conditional agreements for 2 offshore wind projects in its fourth offshore wind solicitation: 810MW Equinor-owned Empire Wind 1 and Ørsted & Eversource-developed 924MW Sunrise Wind.
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Geothermal development and technology company Fervo has raised $244 million in funding led by shale oil and gas business Devon Energy.
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Colorado utility Mountain Parks Electric (MPE) has inked a 20-year power sales agreement (PSA) with wholesale power provider Guzman Energy.
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Renewables developer Casa dos Ventos has contracted an offtaker for the operational Rio do Vento wind complex in Brazil.
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The Department of Energy (DOE) has conditionally awarded $366 million to 17 projects that aim to improve the transmission and electrical distribution of power in rural and remote areas across the US.
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EDF Renewables North America has inked a 20-year power purchase agreement (PPA) with Southern California Public Power Authority (SCPPA) to receive 125MW of EDF's 300MW Bonanza solar and storage project in Nevada.
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North American energy and water industries consultancy firm Concentric Energy Advisors has added Mark Karl as an executive advisor.
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Renewable developer Atiaia Renováveis has signed a contract to supply pharmaceutical company Aché Laboratórios with solar power in Brazil.
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Argentine power generator MSU Energy has signed a power purchase agreement (PPA) to supply solar power to Volkswagen.
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Argentine renewable developer Genneia has inked a renewables power purchase agreement (PPA) with agribusiness company Bunge.
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Allete Power has issued a request for proposals (RFP) for up to 400MW of wind energy to come online by the end of 2027.
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Amazon Web Services (AWS) has added Jason Selfe to its power & utilities team in a business development role.
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Amazon has signed a power purchase agreement (PPA) to source energy from an Avangrid wind farm located in Gilliam County, Oregon.
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Ormat Technologies and Hawaiian Electric have locked in a 46MW geothermal power purchase agreement (PPA) until 2052.
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EDP Brasil is extending its existing power purchase agreement (PPA) with Banco do Brasil for an additional 5 years after winning the contract in a December 2023 auction.
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Canadian Solar subsidiary Recurrent Energy has closed a $160 million project financing for its 127MW Bayou Galion Solar Project in Louisianna.
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Portland General Electric (PGE) has called for bids on clean dispatchable capacity via an all-source request for proposal (RFP).
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Southern Company Gas subsidiaries Virginia Natural Gas and Chattanooga Gas have entered into their first renewable natural gas agreement.
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Scout Clean Energy, a Brookfield Asset Management portfolio company, has signed a virtual power purchase agreement (VPPA) with not-for-profit healthcare system manager AdventHealth for 90MW from a Texas wind farm.
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Swedish industrials business SKF has signed 2 Renewable Energy Certificate (REC) purchase agreements in North America.
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Chilean utility Colbún has inked a power purchase agreement (PPA) with mining company Antofagasta Minerals’s subsidiary Minera Centinela.
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JP Morgan-backed independent power producer Onward Energy has hired the former chief executive of the California Independent System Operator (CAISO) to replace president and CEO, Steve Doyon, who has retired.
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Canadian independent power producer Innergex Renewable Energy, along with its community partners, has won 2 wind projects totaling 400MW in Hydro-Québec's request for proposals (RFP).
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Danish energy company Ørsted has terminated its offtake agreement with the state of Maryland for its 2 Skipjack Wind projects as it re-evaluates project plans amid current market conditions.
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Enviri Corporation company Clean Earth has entered a 5-year offtake agreement with Veolia North America for waste-to-energy from a thermal facility sited in Southwest Arkansas.
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The City of Edmonton, Alberta and Canadian-based Varme Energy have struck a waste-to-energy offtake deal.
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Greenwood Sustainable Infrastructure (GSI) has teamed up with Ocean Man First Nation to build a 100MW solar project in Saskatchewan, Canada.
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Spanish renewable developer Grenergy has signed a hybrid power purchase agreement (PPA) for its Oasis storage project in Chile.
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United Power is to buy its transmission facilities, contracts, and assets, from Tri-State Generation and Transmission Association (Tri-State) for $75million in a transaction critical for the utility's split from the electric cooperative, PFR has learned.
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The US Department of Energy (DOE) has selected 3 firms to help establish a market for the buying and selling of green hydrogen from its Regional Clean Hydrogen Hubs (H2Hubs).
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Bloomberg has signed a 15-year power purchase agreement (PPA) with US-based clean energy developer Ørsted, claiming 80MW of the renewable energy generated by its 471MW Mockingbird Solar Center.
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Chilean utility Colbún has inked a power purchase agreement (PPA) with port terminal Puerto Angamos and subsidiary Terminal Graneles Norte (TGN) located in the Antofagasta region.
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Atlas Renewable Energy has signed a self-production power purchase agreement (PPA) with cement company Votorantim Cimentos in Brazil.
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Chilean utility Colbún has inked a power purchase agreement (PPA) with commercial real estate company Grupo Marina.
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Oil and gas multinational Shell has signed a 20-year liquid natural gas (LNG) sale and purchase agreement to purchase 2 million tons of LNG from Ksi Lisims LNG's British Columbia-based project per year.
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Solar manufacturing company Qcells has closed an agreement with Microsoft to provide 12GW of solar modules and EPC services over the next 8 years.
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Green data center developer Digital Power Optimization (DPO) has closed a power purchase agreement (PPA) with an unnamed multinational renewables developer with over 150MW wind farms in Texas.
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Energy giants Equinor and BP have canceled their power purchase agreement (PPA) with New York to provide 1.26GW from the proposed Empire Wind 2 project.
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New Fortress Energy (NFE) has entered a definitive agreement to acquire a 1.6GW capacity reserve contract — PortoCem PPA — from Denham Capital-backed Ceiba Energy.
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Allete and Grid United's subsidiary, North Plains Connector, have signed development agreements on the North Plains Connector project, an approximately 400-mile high-voltage direct-current (HVDC) transmission line from central North Dakota to Colstrip, Montana.
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The state of Delaware has begun official negotiations with offshore wind developer US Wind, which is developing two wind farms off Maryland, to provide lease areas for the farms' undersea cables and onshore substations.
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Chestnut Carbon, a nature-based carbon removal developer founded by investment firm Kimmeridge Energy Management Company (Kimmeridge) has entered a multi-year offtake agreement with Microsoft.
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Spanish independent power producer Ecoener has signed power purchase agreements with the government of Ecuador, marking the firm’s entry into the Ecuadorian market.
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Solar and storage developer Adapture Renewables has signed three agreements to sell renewable energy credits (RECs) from 330MW of solar generation in Illinois and Arkansas to technology company META
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YPF Luz has signed a power purchase agreement (PPA) to supply renewable energy from its latest wind project in Argentina.
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US technology giant META has entered into a 20-year power purchase agreement (PPA) with Ørsted’s 300MW Eleven Mile Solar Center in Pinal County, Arizona.
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The US Air Force Research Laboratory’s Space Vehicle Directorate has selected Westinghouse to power its advanced space research program.
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Utility Hawaii Electric Company is negotiating final terms with various developers to add 15 renewable generation projects to its grid, which will aid the state’s retirement of 6 fossil fuel-powered generators.
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Renewable energy company Ormat Technologies has entered a 25-year power purchase agreement (PPA) with Dominica Electricity Services to develop a 10MW binary geothermal power plant.
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Renewable and utility developer Invenergy has acquired the Atlantic Power Transmission (APT) project from Blackstone, relaunching the New Jersey transmission initiative as Jersey Link, to support New Jersey’s offshore wind goals.
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Ørsted’s 132MW South Fork project has become the first offshore wind farm to plug into New York’s power grid, and Vineyard Wind completed its first five wind turbines as the projects go head-to-head to become the first full utility-scale offshore wind farm in the US.
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Energy and storage provider FirstLight has signed a 5-year power purchase agreement (PPA) with the Massachusetts Municipal Wholesale Electric Company (MMWEC) to provide 14 state municipal utilities with 69GWh of hydropower.
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Although an issue facing the whole energy sector, transmission and grid connectivity for the offshore wind industry has reached a whole new level of complexity.
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Investment manager Kimmeridge Energy Management’s carbon capture-focused vehicle Kimmeridge Carbon Solutions, has teamed up with UK-based decarbonization development business Storegga to advance carbon capture usage and storage (CCUS) projects.
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Renewable power developer Apex Clean Energy has commenced sale of four solar projects to commercial solar owner and operator Summit Ridge Energy.
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Ameresco is to build a 50MW/200MWh battery energy storage system (BESS) for CAISO utility Silicon Valley Power (SVP) in Santa Clara, California.
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Colbún has inked power purchase agreements (PPAs) with water treatment company Aguas Pacífico in Chile.
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The New York Independent System Operator (NYISO) has halted the May 2025 retirement of four peaker plants to keep New York City’s grid reliable.
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Swift Current Energy has secured a 20-year power contract with NYSERDA for its 402MW Mineral Basin Solar project, the largest onshore energy project to be selected by NYSERDA's competitive solicitation.
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Clenera Holdings subsidiary Country Acres Clean Power has signed a power purchase agreement (PPA) with the Sacramento Municipal Utility District (SMUD) for its 392MW / 688MWh solar-plus-storage project in Placer County, California.
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GE Vernova and Michigan-based energy storage company Our Next Energy (ONE) have signed an agreement to collaborate on US-based solar and storage projects.
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Spanish developer Grenergy has signed the company’s first 'non-solar-hours' power purchase agreement (PPA) to supply the Chilean company EMOAC.
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New York will release requests for proposals (RFPs) for offshore wind and onshore renewable energy projects on November 30, 2023.
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National Grid Renewables has agreed to two power purchase agreements (PPAs) for its Blevins Solar Project, a 270MW development located in Falls County, Texas.
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Minnesota Power, a utility division of Allete, has issued a Request for Proposals (RFP) for up to 300MW of solar energy to come online by 2027.
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Online retail giant Amazon is expanding the company’s renewable energy portfolio with the company's first wind project in South America.
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Verdani Partners, a commercial real estate management services company, has teamed up on energy procurement with the auction-based energy seller Transparent Energy.
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