Governor Cuomo Announces Selection of Developer to Install Rooftop Solar Arrays at Javits Center
NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Governor Andrew M. Cuomo today announced the selection of a developer to design and install up to 1.4 megawatts of solar renewable energy on the green rooftop of the Javits Center on Manhattan's West Side. New York City's largest rooftop solar generation project to date will offset the building's electric load and directly support the Governor's Green New Deal, a nation-leading clean energy and jobs agenda for 100 percent carbon-free electricity in New York by 2040 and...
PanelClaw Partners with Yotta to Enable Integrated Rooftop Panel-Level Solar-Plus-Storage
AUSTIN, Texas and NORTH ANDOVER, Mass. – Yotta, a developer of innovative panel-level energy storage solutions, and PanelClaw®, a global leader in flat roof racking, are pleased to announce that they will be working to develop Yotta’s patented SolarLEAF™ energy storage solutions as an attachment to PanelClaw®’s rooftop racking solution, the most used and trusted flat roof solar products on the market today. The SolarLEAF™ system is the world’s first and only thermally protected panel-level energ...
FPL Announces Plans to Build Four New Solar Power Plants in 2019
- Installation of more than 1 million solar panels included as part of FPL's plan to add 30 million more solar panels by 2030 - New solar plants will create about 800 jobs as Florida continues to lead the nation in solar-related employment - With 18 solar power plants in operation and four more on the way, FPL is on track to make Florida a world leader in solar energy production JUNO BEACH, Fla. - Florida Power & Light Company (FPL) today announced plans to build...
Financial Investments of over 1 Billion Euros Push Baltic States Ahead of Western EU Counterparts in Renewable Energy Targets
In a recently published European Union report, which showed the Netherlands and the United Kingdom to be the least energy efficient EU member states in terms of renewables, the same findings showed that the Baltic States of Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia make up over 30% of the EU countries that have already met their 2020 renewable energy targets. The EU has made it mandatory that all 28 member states will have to source 20% of their total energy outputs from renewables by 2020, and 27%...
"Liberty Wind" Proposes To Deliver Up To 1,200 Megawatts of Offshore Wind Power to New York
NEW YORK - Vineyard Wind today announced a new offshore wind project proposal to serve New York called Liberty Wind. The Liberty Wind proposal was submitted in response to the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority's (NYSERDA) solicitation of offshore wind project proposals for supplying New York with clean, emission free offshore wind energy. The Liberty Wind proposal includes 400, 800 and 1,200 megawatt project size options. The 1,200 megawatt project, which is the most...
NEW REPORT Shows Urgent Need for Nevada Legislature to Further Advance Clean Energy
NV Energy’s recently-released December 2018 Renewable Generations report shows that, thanks to the work of the 2017 Legislature, there were nearly 15,000 applications for rooftop solar projects last year, with almost half of them already completed. This represents a 450 percent growth in solar applications over 2017 and would generate enough electricity to power 20,000 Nevada homes. These projects create jobs and reduce consumers’ utility bills, and were made possible thanks to one of the nine b...
Tri Global Energy First in Texas Wind Development for Fifth Consecutive Year
DALLAS - Tri Global Energy (TGE), a leading U.S. originator and developer of utility-scale wind energy projects, ended 2018 as it has for the past five years – the clear wind development leader in Texas, outpacing the nearest competitor in Texas by more than six times the number of megawatts either under construction or in advanced development. With a reported 2,689 MW of combined project capacity at the close of 2018, TGE also ranked fourth among the top five wind development leaders nationall...
New Milestone: Demand for Renewable Electricity Surpasses 500 TWh in Europe
For the first time renewable energy demand in Europe surpasses 500 TWh - or half a billion Guarantees of Origin (GOs),” says Tom Lindberg, Managing Director in ECOHZ, commenting on 2018 statistics from the Association of Issuing Bodies (AIB).”If the growth trend from the last five years continues, the GO-market will soon surpass one billion Euro,” Tom Lindberg adds, noting “that customers are willing to pay a premium on certain origins of energy.” The European Union has previously mandated th...
EuroCape New Energy France Gets on Board with Greenbyte Energy Cloud for Data Management
The renewable energy independent power producer has chosen Greenbyte Energy Cloud for data analysis for their operational wind farms in France as well as the upcoming projects in their pipeline. In France, EuroCape New Energy has developed and built a portfolio of more than 100 MW over the last 10 years. Today EuroCape operates 77MW of wind energy, 3 MW of solar energy and has a targeted pipeline of 200 MW in development. Their operational French portfolio includes over 30 turbines from 4 dif...
European Commission Approves Renewable Energy Support Package to Lithuania Worth EUR 1.24bn in Push for Energy Autonomy Ahead of 2020 European Union Energy Directive
The European Commission recently approved a measure to support the production of electricity from renewables and electricity-heavy industrial consumers in Lithuania, a move that positions the largest of the three Baltic States as the region’s leader in meeting the European Union’s 2020 and 2030 energy directives. In 2018 it was announced that Lithuania was amongst 11 EU member states including Sweden and Finland to already be sourcing 20% of its energy from renewable sources. The...