Solar photovoltaic
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Spanish clean energy-focused fund manager Qualitas Energy has closed on its controlling stake in Heelstone Renewable Energy from Ares Management for around $850 million, PFR has learned.
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Renewables operator ERG has closed on its acquisition of a 75% stake in a 317MW solar and wind portfolio with Apex Clean Energy.
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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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Utility-scale independent power producer Alternus Clean Energy will acquire more than 80MW of operating solar projects in the US from C2 Energy Capital at a value of $60 million.
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WEC Energy Group has agreed to acquire a 90% ownership interest in the 300MW Delilah I Solar Energy Center from Invenergy for $459 million.
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Patent infringement lawsuits are becoming commonplace in the renewable energy sector as manufacturers look to take advantage of the US’ lucrative tax credit regime.
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Sunpower has closed business units and made layoffs as part of its efforts to secure long-term financial sustainability amid restructuring and refinancing initiatives.
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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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BW Solar has agreed to sell 12 New York community solar projects totalling 76.7MW to solar and battery storage developer Catalyze.
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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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ForeFront Power, a commercial and industrial solar energy and storage developer, has hired Ruben Fontes as chief executive.
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Commercial solar and clean energy development platform Sunrock Distributed Generation (DG) has entered a tax equity partnership with US student and consumer loan financier Nelnet.
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Brazil's Superintendency for the Development of the Northeast (Sudene) has approved a R$26.6 million ($5.3m) loan for the 212MWp Milagres solar project, developed by Lightsource BP.
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Renewable energy infrastructure fund manager Excelsior Energy Capital has launched Lydian Energy, an independent power producer (IPP) specialising in the development, construction, and operation of utility-scale solar and battery energy storage projects in North America.
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Lader Energy's Puertos de Santander solar park has obtained an environmental permit from Colombia's national authority of environmental licences (ANLA).
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Lightsource BP has proposed the sale of its Happy and Oxbow solar facilities, PFR has learned.
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EDF Renewables Brasil and Serena Geração have completed the share swap of their stakes in the Pirapora Solar Complex and the Ventos da Bahia wind farm.
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French renewables company GreenYellow has secured financing of 172 billion pesos ($44.7m) with Banco de Bogotá for its 85MWp solar power generation portfolio in Colombia.
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Leeward Renewable Energy (LRE) has signed 2 power purchase agreements (PPAs) for 200MW with Microsoft.
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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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Renewables developer NextEra Energy will sell its 180MW Big Cypress solar photovoltaic facility to Crittenden County, Arkansas in a sale-leaseback deal, PFR has learned.
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SunPower has fallen foul of Nasdaq listing rules amid debt restructuring caused by higher than expected losses in 2023.
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Renewable energy developer and producer RIC Energy will sell 7 photovoltaic plants in upstate New York to distributed energy platform Radial Power.
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An Eagle Creek Renewable Energy affiliate has acquired US-based community solar developer and owner Lightstar Renewables.
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Spanish renewable developer Solarpack has appointed José Luis García Pérez as chief executive for Latin America, based in Santiago, Chile.
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Residential solar technology and energy business SunPower has hired Tony Garzolini as executive vice president and chief revenue officer (CRO).
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Longroad Energy has closed a debt facility with a consortium of banks led by CIBC and a tax equity loan from Athene Annuity and Life Insurance Company for its 444MW/855MWh Serrano solar project in Arizona. PFR understands the value of the financing to be $650 million.
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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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Spanish energy giant Repsol has closed on its acquisition of US renewable development company ConnectGen for $768 million.
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RIC Energy has sold a 20MW solar photovoltaic portfolio to Brookfield-owned Luminace.
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DE Shaw Renewable Investments (DESRI) will sell multiple transmission assets associated with its Arroyo Solar Project to the Public Service Company of New Mexico (PNM), PFR has learned.
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Residential solar technology and energy services provider SunPower Corp’s chief executive officer (CEO) Peter Faricy has left the company, effective 26 February 2024.
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Residential solar company SunPower has secured over $300 million in project financing commitments from Apollo, Atlas SP Partners, and Hannon Armstrong Sustainable Infrastructure Capital (HASI).
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Arevon Energy has secured more than $1 billion in financing commitments for its Eland 2 solar-plus-storage project in Kern County, California.
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PLT Energy US, a subsidiary of Italian renewable and energy storage group PLT Energia (PLT), has entered into a joint venture (JV) with Glacier Global Partners’ subsidiary GGS Energy.
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Sustainable infrastructure company Generate Capital is to sell a 13.45% stake in Pine Gate Renewables to the Healthcare of Ontario Pension Plan Trust Fund (HOOPP), PFR has found.
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Plenitude’s US subsidiary Eni New Energy US has closed on its buy of an 80% equity stake in 3 operating solar projects from global energy business EDP Renováveis (EDPR), PFR has learned.
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Residential solar company SunPower has raised $175 million as it plans to mitigate threats of default with long-term financial changes.
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Independent power producer (IPP) Urban Grid has hired Eivind Osterhus as chief financial officer and Erica Engle as chief commercial officer.
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US based renewable energy developer owner and operator Longroad Energy has closed on sale of its 108MWdc Foxhound Solar project to Dominion Energy, PFR has learned.
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Standard Solar is to acquire an 84MW community solar portfolio in Illinois from renewables company New Leaf Energy.
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SolAmerica Energy has agreed to procure 205MW of solar modules from First Solar.
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New Energy Equity, a solar developer subsidiary of Allete, has appointed Jackie Chambers as chief investment officer.
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Swedish industrials business SKF has signed 2 Renewable Energy Certificate (REC) purchase agreements in North America.
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Vesper Energy has closed $590 million in financing for its 600MW Hornet Solar project.
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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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Alliant Energy’s Wisconsin Utility, Wisconsin Power and Light Company (WPL), is diluting its interest in the 723.2MW natural-gas combined-cycle generation and 4MW solar hybrid project West Riverside Energy Center, PFR has learned.
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Utility-scale solar developer Volt Energy Utility has appointed Jean Nelson-Houpert as chief financial officer (CFO).
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Canadian Solar subsidiary and global solar and storage developer, Recurrent Energy, has secured a $500 million preferred equity investment from a fund managed by BlackRock’s climate infrastructure business.
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Deriva Energy, formerly Duke Energy Renewables, has acquired the 140MW Spanish Peaks Solar project sited in Las Animas County, Colorado from global solar power developer JUWI.
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Plenitude’s US subsidiary Eni New Energy US has agreed to purchase an 80% equity stake in an operational three-project solar portfolio from global energy business EDP Renováveis (EDPR).
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Solar development company TurningPoint Energy has announced the appointment of Salar Naini as president, as former president Jared Schoch moves into a chairman role.
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The North American division of Italy’s Enel has closed on its $271 million sale of all US geothermal assets and several solar parks to Ormat Technologies.
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Renewables operator ERG has agreed to partner with independent US green power company Apex Clean Energy Holdings to manage and potentially expand a currently operating portfolio of wind and solar projects.
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NextEnergy Capital has finalised the first investment – a 100MW utility-scale solar project in Highlands County, Florida – from its latest fund.
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Westbridge Renewable Energy has closed the sale of its 230MW Vulcan County, Alberta-sited solar power plant project known as Georgetown Solar to a subsidiary of Mytilineos Energy & Metals.
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Renewables developer and asset owner Madison Energy Infrastructure (MEI) is set to acquire Pro-Tech Energy Solutions.
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