Solar Industry

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Origis Energy has closed a $344 million construction financing facility and conversion to term loan with MUFG for its Golden Triangle I energy storage project in Lowndes County, Miss. Origis announced construction of the three projects, Golden Triangle I, Golden Triangle II and Optimist, earlier this year.

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The Environmental Blog

JUNE 25, 2020

The construction industry is one of the top contributors to greenhouse gas emissions , playing a huge role in climate change. The effects of construction on the environment are immense from mining precious resources, extracting materials, and destroying habitat. Air Quality.

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Envirotec Magazine

JUNE 15, 2022

Water utilities are working to 2030, while the construction industry has 2050 in its sights. Challenging factors with construction include the complexity of the supply chain, and the sheer quantity of waste generated. It’s incredibly easy to create waste in the construction industry.

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Smart Energy International

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

The package, originally secured to finance the construction and operation of TagEnergy’s Lakeside BESS project in October 2023, included an uncommitted accordion facility, enabling TagEnergy to incorporate Pitkevy into the funding structure. Construction has commenced and the energy park is scheduled to be operational at the end of 2024.

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Smart Energy International

OCTOBER 19, 2023

billion investment for 58 projects across 44 states to strengthen electric grid resilience and reliability, invest in microgrids and enable more renewable energy generation across America. In its biggest investment in the nation’s grid, the White House announced a $3.46

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 13, 2022

With the passage of the infrastructure bill and the urgent need to improve and expand our cities, it’s critical that we build in a way that is both resilient and sustainable. Join us to learn about opportunities across the construction value chain to achieve carbon neutrality for the future built environment.

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altenergymag

MAY 5, 2022

Construction underway since March 2022 for the first 100 MWh EVx system to support grid resiliency and delivery of renewable energy to the Chinese national grid

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Green Technology

MARCH 20, 2023

Forum Floorplan Advisory Board Register to Attend How County Agencies Partnered to Develop a Regional Model for Sustainable and Climate Resilient Schools that Can be Taken to Scale Across California This session answers the question: How can regional agencies partner with TK-12 schools and to catalyze environmental and climate action?

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Grist

AUGUST 10, 2023

Last month, the American Chemistry Council, a petrochemical industry trade group, sent out a newsletter highlighting a major new report on what it presented as a promising solution to the plastic pollution crisis: using “recycled” plastic in construction materials. This already happens with materials that don’t have plastics in them.)

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ThinkGeoEnergy

AUGUST 30, 2023

New Zealand-based renewable energy company Eastland Generation will be receiving $25 million in long-term lending from the New Zealand Green Investment Finance (NZGIF) to fund the construction of connection assets for the new ~50 MW TOPP2 geothermal plant.

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Construction Geothermal power Investment Resilience 52

The City Fix

JANUARY 3, 2024

The country can’t achieve either goal without a radical transformation in its buildings and construction sector, which was responsible for around 17% of the nation’s. India aims to reduce the emissions intensity of its economy by 45% by 2030, compared to 2005 levels, and to achieve net-zero emissions by 2070.

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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 2, 2020

There’s no shortage of “resilience” talk in the energy industry, but it hasn’t always been that way. Resilience 101: Where we’ve been. Thirty years ago, the concept of resilience held a very different and less pressing connotation than it does today.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

Implementing net zero-aligned circular economy approaches to infrastructure and construction could cut costs and boost resilience, according to AECOM. The report comes in the same week as the timber industry launched a new campaign to promote the climate benefits of using wood-based construction materials.

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Business Green

JANUARY 20, 2022

Environment Agency chair Emma Howard Boyd has called on the Treasury to launch a review into the cost of climate impacts and the value of investing in resilience measures, noting that current levels of funding for flood and coastal defenses are nowhere near where they should be.

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Mosaic

APRIL 1, 2022

First, what exactly is energy resilience? And why should solar installers and home improvement contractors care about resilient energy? The stats show that homeowners are seeking out renewable systems and battery storage to increase their energy resilience and protect their power supply during natural crises.

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Mosaic

APRIL 1, 2022

First, what exactly is energy resilience? And why should solar installers and home improvement contractors care about resilient energy? The stats show that homeowners are seeking out renewable systems and battery storage to increase their energy resilience and protect their power supply during natural crises.

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GreenTechMedia

JULY 28, 2020

The slowdown is driven by shelter-in-place and stay-at-home orders that have forced microgrid projects to delay permitting, construction and interconnection processes amid the country’s COVID-19 pandemic, microgrid analyst Isaac Maze-Rothstein wrote. That’s similar to the delays that have hurt U.S. and Eastern Seaboard.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

The plant takes waste and converts it into a value income, providing low carbon energy, with the added benefit of providing greater energy resilience. Synergie, part of the PD&MS Group, managed the full project over the four-year period from feasibility, through construction to commissioning, working in partnership with Sterling.

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GreenBiz

MAY 5, 2020

The ongoing coronavirus crisis has amplified the growing calls for resilient and adaptable infrastructure that effectively can operate during moments of crisis. Economically, the case for technologically advanced, resilient and sustainable infrastructure is clear. The economic benefits. That's a $4 return for every $1 spent.

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Solar Industry

JANUARY 24, 2024

Escalante Solar is a 200 MW plant under construction in New Mexico for Tri-State Generation and Transmission Association and its member electric cooperatives. The projects will deliver energy and grid resiliency under PPAs executed between Origis Energy and the Tennessee Valley Authority. “J.P.

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Solar Industry

MAY 13, 2024

On behalf of MTE, Silicon Ranch will fund, construct, own, operate and maintain the project, located in Cumberland County, Tenn. “At Construction is slated for completion in 2027. It is the first large-scale solar facility planned under the Tennessee Valley Authority’s (TVA) newly expanded Generation Flexibility Program.

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Green Technology

APRIL 18, 2023

the California Conservation Corps, Ferguson HVAC, Whitson Contracting and Management, Smart Rain, Veregy, MBTechnology, Constructive Systems Inc. The post Harnessing the Recent Surge of Grant Funding: A Primer for California State University’s Climate Resilience first appeared on Green Technology. and many more.

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Smart Energy International

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

These models aim to help eliminate network monitoring blind spots in stress-testing grid resilience and improve severe weather response while reducing reliance on manual field surveys. Also from Smart Energy Finances: $18m to commercialise wood chips-based EV batteries Shell to reportedly sell sonnen $54.7

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Sizewell C aims to power its water desalination plant with zero carbon electricity from Sizewell B in a further move to make construction of the nuclear plant in Suffolk as green as possible, as the group’s Nick Osbourne writes.

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Solar Industry

OCTOBER 30, 2023

The DOE is entering into capacity contract negotiations with three interregional transmission projects that will strengthen grid resilience and reliability, enable the addition of more clean energy resources to the grid, and bring diverse, clean energy to more customers. Construction is expected to start in Q1 of 2025.

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Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Chris Marsh, Chief Executive Officer at Enviromena, said: “We are extremely disappointed with the latest delay, which has left a key project without a feasible connection date despite being ready to construct. The North East is enjoying a renaissance for clean energy as it emerges as a key hub for renewables.

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Solar Industry

APRIL 17, 2024

Arevon Energy has signed a long-term tolling agreement with MCE for 188 MW of the Cormorant Energy Storage Project, a 250 MW stand-alone BESS set to be constructed in two phases in Daly City, Calif. The first 188 MW phase is scheduled to begin construction at the start of next year and is anticipated to become operational in 2026.

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Business Green

APRIL 14, 2020

The Committee on Climate Change (CCC) is to present advice to the government on supporting a resilient, low carbon economic recovery from the coronavirus crisis as part of its annual assessment of the UK's progress towards its 2050 net zero greenhouse gas emissions goal this summer.

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GreenBiz

AUGUST 14, 2020

Yet here we are, at the start of the new fire season, and we’re just launching programs and soliciting proposals designed to add more resilience. Shelter-in-place orders have delayed permitting, construction and interconnection of new projects. The value of resilience . What happened? For one thing, regulation moves slowly.

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The City Fix

APRIL 4, 2024

In the crowded slums of Zambia, Africa, members of the Zambia Youth Federation, a social movement of the urban poor, conducted climate change research and presented it in an emotional spoken word poem. Their message let policymakers know how climate.

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Smart Energy International

JANUARY 18, 2024

The work to take place over the next ten years will include new high voltage substations, overhead line construction as well as design, engineering, construction, and electrical works. The substation works include both the construction of new substations and the extension of existing substations. Have you read?

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Envirotec Magazine

JANUARY 21, 2022

‘The Floating House’, can also be used as storage for food, water, medicines, and sanitation products and is designed to enhance disaster resilience within a local community at family level. Multiple recycled plastic barrels are then tied underneath the ground floor, and the walls and roof are constructed using galvanised metal sheets.

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Business Green

MAY 10, 2022

The analysis highlights how a range of nature-based solutions, such as sustainable drainage systems, street trees, and the creation of parks and urban green spaces, can boost the value and resilience of urban buildings.

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Business Green

JULY 14, 2020

The Environment Agency's new strategy will help build up the resilience of millions more homes and businesses to flooding and coastal erosion, according to its chair Emma Howard Boyd. Our vision is: a nation ready for, and resilient to, flooding and coastal change - today, tomorrow and to the year 2100. Every year, flooding kills.

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Solar Industry

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

The array is set to be constructed in the vicinity of an electrical substation and fed into Unitil’s distribution system, reducing the amount of energy it receives from the transmission system. ReVision Energy has been selected by Unitil Corporation as the EPC contractor for its 4.9 million kWh annually over its projected 40-year lifespan.

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Solar Industry

OCTOBER 12, 2023

Origis Energy and the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) say construction has begun on the first of three projects in Mississippi with a total capacity of 550 MW plus 150 MW of battery storage. This is the largest battery storage portfolio announced in Mississippi and the largest solar portfolio under construction in the state.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 8, 2020

The green technologies required to deliver net zero emission buildings have already been developed and are slowly becoming more established in new and old buildings alike, while construction firms are thinking increasingly carefully about the environmental impacts of the materials and equipment they use.

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