Bechtel is expanding the use of technology to keep work on track at its 272-MW Cutlass Solar II project in Texas, set to operate by late spring.

Five of 15 domestic and international bidders are shortlisted to build two photovoltaic projects with a total capacity of 1,500 MW.

As manufacturing facilities for everything from electric vehicle components to the crystalline photovoltaic wafers in solar panels are funded by government incentive as well as private investment, design firms are being called on to redesign production processes dependent on the materials and regulations that long-favored overseas manufacturing.

Solar development is only latest move in the West African country's broad strategy to improve access to electricity in rural areas.

The CO Bar Solar project is a partnership between Tempe-based not-for-profit utility SRP and solar and storage developer Boise-based Clēnera, which will build and operate the plant.

Lightsource BP's 750,000-panel, 300-MW Bighorn Solar project will be fully online in November as a clean fuel source for the expanded plant.

New administration set to rejoin Paris climate pact, a heavy lift for the energy sector, but industry cites need and optimism for a clean infrastructure funding program.

Plans to build the nation’s largest solar energy farm took a major step toward reality in late December with the release of the federal Bureau of Land Management’s final environmental impact statement for the proposed $1-billion Gemini Solar Project in Nevada.

Questions are still awaiting answers as Arizona Public Service Co. investigates the cause of an explosion April 19 in a 2-MW/2-MWh grid-connected energy-storage battery facility in Surprise, Ariz.