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Tennessee airport fulfills long commitment to cutting carbon through solar

Solar Power World

MW ground-mount solar array, which powers all its operations. “We The airport has taken environmentally conscious steps to all new major developments — from recycling windowpanes and repurposing them into countertops to “rubble-izing” concrete facilities and using the material as the groundwork for a 2.74-MW

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Vivint Introduces Solar-and-Storage PPA in California, Citing Wildfire-Related Demand

GreenTechMedia

Storage systems attached to solar arrays are increasingly being financed through leases or PPAs as attachment rates climb, according to analysts at Wood Mackenzie Power & Renewables, but that could change as storage prices continue to decline.

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Why Smaller Might Be Better for Concentrated Solar Power

GreenTechMedia

Developers should look to build standard power tower arrays of between 30 megawatts and 50 megawatts each, clustered around a single power block of up to 500 megawatts, the researchers said. Splitting a single heliostat field into several polar field units could boost plant efficiency by 25 percent, they said.