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BASF to add 90 MW total of wind and solar power contracts in Texas

Renewable Energy World

German chemical company, BASF, and EDF Energy North America signed a 35-MW wind power purchase agreement (PPA) that will bring 25 MW of wind power to BASF’s Verbund site in Freeport, Texas, and 10 MW of wind power to the Pasadena, Texas, site.

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Utility-scale contractor translates wind expertise to growing solar market

Solar Power World

Infrastructure and Energy Alternatives (IEA) is a major force in heavy civil construction. Through its subsidiary White Construction, the company is consistently battling with market leader Mortenson for the top wind power EPC in the country.

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Solar powered football and carbon captured Coca-Cola: BusinessGreen's most read stories of the week

Business Green

National Grid to unveil plans for UK 'electrical spine' Grid operator this week published its blueprint for connecting up to 86GW of offshore wind power to the grid by 2035. - by Stuart Stone ( @sstone26 ) Keep up to date with all the latest green business news by signing up to the free Daily and Weekly BusinessGreen Newsletters. .

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ACORE Commends Congress for Including Commonsense Emergency Relief Measures for the Renewable Sector in Year-End Spending and COVID Relief Package

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Congress has reached a bipartisan deal that contains important emergency relief measures for the renewable energy industry, including a two-year extension of the investment tax credit (important for solar power), a one-year extension of the production tax credit (important for wind power), and a new 30% investment tax credit for offshore wind projects (..)

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World behind on almost every policy required to cut carbon emissions, research finds

The Guardian: Energy

Retire about 240 average-sized coal-fired power plants a year, every year between now and 2030. Construct the equivalent of three New Yorks’ worth of public transport systems in cities around the world each year this decade. Increase the rate of growth of solar and wind power from its current high of 14% a year to 24% a year.

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Beam solar-powered off-grid EV chargers deployed worldwide

AGreenLiving

Off-grid EV charger manufacturer Beam has now installed solar-powered off-grid EV chargers in more than 100 municipalities in the U.S. Beam Global CEO Desmond Wheatley told CleanTechnica in May 2021 that his EV charger company had fulfilled an order from the state of California for 52 off-grid solar-powered EV chargers.

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Three-Quarters of New US Generating Capacity in 2020 Will Be Renewable, EIA Says

GreenTechMedia

Energy Information Administration has confirmed what it and industry watchers predicted a year ago—that wind and solar power will expand on their already-large share of new U.S. gigawatts of wind power capacity to come online in 2020 surpasses 2012’s record of 13.2 generation capacity in 2020.