Clean power developer Hecate aims to build arrays on 8,000 acres of federal land at former nuclear weapons megasite under Biden program to use expanses of real estate at locations across the US for renewables.
The Sun Streams 4 project, a 377-MWdc PV, 300-MWac/1200 MWh solar and 300-MWac battery storage facility 40 miles west of Phoenix, is about one-third completed and at peak workforce of approximately 250 solar construction workers, including 65-plus registered apprentices.
It could be solar, it could be wind. It could be green roofs or clean streets. Whatever the mechanism for greening the built environment, there is one force that drives environmental justice activist Charles Callaway: community.
Spanning more than 600 acres and featuring a 20MW/50MWh battery energy storage system (BESS) component, the 100-MW Rabbitbrush Solar Facility reached completion in November 2022.
Solar energy equipment maker First Solar Inc. recently announced plans to build a $1-billion photovoltaic module manufacturing plant at a to-be-determined location in the southeast U.S., and to invest another $185 million upgrading and expanding one of its existing plants in Ohio.
Firm will engineer and build the $1.2-billion, 690-MW Gemini solar array in Nevada, says Primergy Solar, its California-based developer, owner and operator announced recently.