Power

Florida Power & Light Company to build world’s largest solar-powered battery system

Florida Power & Light Company is to build the world's largest solar-powered battery system with a 409MW capacity - enough to power 100 million iPhone batteries

Australia grants exploration licence for $5.7bn Star of the South project

Offshore Energy has secured approval from the Australian government to carry out resource exploration for its proposed Star of the South Energy Project, a 2GW offshore wind farm to come up off the Victorian coast.

DTE Energy targets 80% reduction of carbon emissions by 2040

Michigan-based utility DTE Energy will invest $2bn in renewables by 2024 and accelerate coal plant retirements in an effort to achieve 80% reduction of carbon emissions by 2040.

TEP selects EDF Renewables to build 247MW wind farm in New Mexico

Tucson Electric Power (TEP) has selected EDF Renewables North America to construct the 247.4MW Oso Grande Wind Project to be located in southeastern New Mexico.

X1 Wind secures funding for PivotBuoy project to reduce offshore wind costs

X1 Wind has received €4m funding from EU Commission Horizon 2020 for its PivotBuoy project, a single point mooring system capable of reducing floating offshore wind costs.

Qatar inaugurates 2.5GW Umm Al Houl power plant

Qatar has officially inaugurated the 2.5GW Umm Al Houl power plant, a combined cycle power facility built near the country’s capital Doha with an investment of QAR11bn ($3.02bn).

SSE sells stake in 108MW wind farm to Greencoat Renewables

Scottish energy company SSE has sold 25% stake in its 108MW Cloosh Valley Wind Farm, part of the 174MW Galway Wind Park to the co-owner, Greencoat Renewables for €34.5m.

Energy Recovery awarded $8.8m for water projects in Saudi Arabia

Energy Recovery, Inc. (NASDAQ: ERII), the leader in pressure energy technology for industrial fluid flows, today announced total awards of $8.8 million (USD) to supply its PX Q300 Pressure Exchanger devices to multiple desalination facilities in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.

What is the Renewable Energy Buyers Alliance?

Google, GM, Walmart and many more have joined forces to create the Renewable Energy Buyers Alliance in a bid to simplify the buying process for clean power across corporate America