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Jan 30, 2025 · Captona, a diversified energy transition investment firm, announced the completion of a preferred equity transaction in three standalone, utility-scale Battery Energy Storage Systems (BESS) that will deliver nearly 1 GWh of energy across the state of Texas.

Jun 4, 2024 · Leeward Renewable Energy has signed a 15-year Long-Term Resource Adequacy Agreement with Pacific Gas & Electric Company (PG&E) for LRE’s 112.5-MW Sierra Pinta Energy Storage project in Yuma County, Arizona.

Jan 28, 2025 · Encore Renewable Energy has closed on a $389 million financing solution from Brookfield to support Encore’s growth as an IPP.

Nov 18, 2024 · The big question of 2025 may actually be whether supply and demand fundamentals are more important than future policy changes, or vice versa, writes contributor Jake Edie.

Jan 6, 2025 · “This story was originally published by Grist.Sign up for Grist’s weekly newsletter here.”. This coverage is made possible through a partnership between Grist and WBEZ, a public radio station serving the Chicago metropolitan region.. It takes approximately 700,000 megawatt hours of electricity to power Chicago’s more than 400 municipal buildings every year.

Dec 30, 2024 · FILE - A worker does checks on battery storage pods at Orsted's Eleven Mile Solar Center lithium-ion battery storage energy facility, Feb. 29, 2024, in Coolidge, Ariz. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin, File)

Jan 14, 2025 · The combination of growing scale and technology improvements has reduced the cost of producing solar modules and battery cells. Every year incremental gains are made to solar conversion efficiency, battery round-trip efficiency, energy density, degradation, and safety.

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The nation put up 357 gigawatts of solar and wind, a 45% and 18% increase, respectively, over what was operating at the end of 2023, according to China’s National Energy Administration.