The San Vicente Reservoir in San Diego County stores water as far as the Colorado River. Pumping water into a smaller reservoir in the surrounding mountains can store excess solar energy until sunset. Dan Charles for NPR hide signature The San Vicente Reservoir in San Diego County stores water as far as the Colorado River. […]
Dane County is one step closer to being Wisconsin’s first county government to achieve 100% renewable electricity status. On Oct. 11, Dane County Executive Joe Parisi joined Alliant Energy and SunVest Solar executives to celebrate the installation of the first solar panels on a new 90-acre solar farm site on county-owned land in the Town […]
Liz Truss is facing a backlash from Jacob Rees-Mogg’s business department over plans to ban solar power from most of England’s countryside. The Prime Minister and her environment secretary, Ranil Jayawardena, want to ban solar from about 41% of England’s land area, or about 58% of agricultural land, The Guardian revealed earlier this week. But […]
Airbus Ventures announces its newest lead investment in Solestial, Inc. (“Solestial”), the solar energy company for space. The round was joined by AEI HorizonX, GPVC, Stellar Ventures, Industrious Ventures, and others. This new funding will be used to ramp up production and customer engagement capabilities, as the company expands ground and flight testing in […]
An additional six of Airbus’ Sparkwing solar panels have been selected by Aerospacelab to accommodate their ramp up towards higher satellite production volumes. The panels are designed and produced at Airbus’ Dutch site in Leiden. The ordered configuration, consisting of two single panel wings, each measuring 1070x570mm, is identical to the set recently delivered […]
Quinbrook Infrastructure Partners and its portfolio company Primergy Solar reports the sale of a minority equity stake in its US$1.2 billion Gemini Solar + Storage project outside of Las Vegas to APG, the largest pension asset manager in the Netherlands. APG has agreed to acquire a 49% equity ownership in the project on behalf […]
