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Renewable energy advocates achieve small wins in Xcel Energy’s 2024 IRP
On February 20, 2025, the Minnesota Public Utilities Commission approved the settlement agreement for Xcel Energy’s 2024 Integrated Resource Plan (IRP). The settlement represents an important evolution in Xcel’s clean energy transition strategy, emphasizing distributed renewable energy, battery storage and customer savings and participation. The settlement and the commission’s decision include critical agreements that will…
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Solis partners with Derapi to help energy storage customers enroll in VPPs
Solis announced its partnership with Derapi, a cloud-based API platform for Distributed Energy Resources. This partnership is intended to better enable Solis solar energy storage customers to participate in and take advantage of Virtual Power Plant (VPP) programs across the United States and Canada. “The distributed energy landscape is ripe for innovation,” said James Qiao,…
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OCI Energy, Arava Power form joint venture to develop 260-MW solar project
OCI Energy and Arava Power have entered into their second agreement — forming a joint venture to develop Project SunRoper, a 260-MWAC solar farm in Wharton County, Texas. Located approximately 60 miles southwest of downtown Houston, the project will provide critical clean energy capacity to one of the highest electricity demand areas in Texas and…
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SolarBank and Viridi partner on 3-MW community solar + storage project on closed landfill
SolarBank has announced it is partnering with Viridi, producer of fail-safe battery energy storage systems (BESS), on the development of a combined 3.06-MWDC ground-mount community solar project and 1.2-MWh battery energy storage system (BESS) in Buffalo, New York. The project is being constructed on a closed landfill site, transforming previously unusable land into a productive…
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Permanent sheep flock leaves Georgia solar project’s land healthier than before SPW visits the Houston Solar Project
The ambitions of the Houston Solar Project predate the existence of Silicon Ranch, the Southeast solar developer responsible for bringing the 68-MW array to Perry, Georgia. A flock of sheep graze beneath the tracking solar module rows covering 697 acres off Firetower Road in south Houston County, a breed of ewes that over two decades…
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