North America

E.ON announced that it has begun construction on its Bruenning's Breeze Wind Farm. The 228 megawatt wind farm will be E.ON's 22nd wind farm nationwide and second in Willacy County, TX.  The wind farm holds special place for E.ON personnel, as it is named after Michelle Bruenning, a member of the E.ON legal team in Texas who passed away from cancer in 2014. Bruenning's Breeze will consist of 76 three megawatt turbines built by Acciona/Nordex. E.ON is currently also constructing Radford's Run Wind Farm, a 278 MW project…

EDF Renewable Energy (EDF RE) announces the signing of a 20-year Power Purchase Agreement with MCE for up to 186 megawatts peak (MWp) / 150 MWac from the Desert Harvest Solar Project, in Southern California. The Project is expected to begin delivery of clean electricity to MCE starting in 2020. Located on approximately 1,200 acres of land managed by the US Bureau of Land Management (BLM) in the largest Solar Energy Zone (SEZ) in the U.S., the Riverside County, California solar project will utilize horizontal single-axis…

Boralex Inc. and Alberta Wind Energy Corporation (AWEC) announce the creation of the Alberta Renewable Power Limited Partnership, owned respectively approximatively 52% and 48% by the two companies. The formation Alberta Renewable Power Limited Partnership will be a unique opportunity to leverage the mutual expertise of Boralex and AWEC in the development of wind and solar projects in Alberta. Boralex is a well-established renewable energy company based in Quebec that owns 1108 MW of projects in operation in Canada,…

Nordex Group has signed a contract with an IPP in US for supplying PTC qualifying components corresponding to a value of 32 million US Dollars. The total volume of the customer's upcoming US projects, based on this contract, is expected to equate to 15 times the total value of the agreement. The manufacturer has already begun execution of the order, featuring the AW3000 turbine. This ensures that the customer can obtain the full tax benefit for its wind farms according to the "safe harbor" terms by achieving commercial…

ACCIONA Energy announced that the San Roman Wind Farm has begun commercial operation. The 93 megawatt (MW) San Roman project is ACCIONA’s eighth wind farm in the U.S. and brings the company’s total U.S. wind capacity to 721 MW. San Roman is located near Brownsville, Texas and is equipped with thirty-one AW125/3000 turbines manufactured by Nordex/ACCIONA Windpower. Each turbine has a rotor diameter of 125 meters and is mounted on an 87.5-meter steel tower. In addition to owning and operating the project, ACCIONA served as…

New Energy Solar and SunPower announced that New Energy Solar has acquired a substantial majority interest in two large-scale solar projects, totalling over 134 megawatts (MW), that SunPower developed, designed and constructed in Kern County, California. SunPower will retain an ownership interest in the projects, which each having a capacity of 67.4 MWs, and provide ongoing operation and maintenance services. Stanford University has a long-term agreement to purchase 100 percent of the power, as well as the renewable energy…

Innovative Solar Systems is a large scale solar farm project developer based in Asheville, NC and has just announced that the company is offering 300MW blocks of solar farms for sale. These crown jewel projects are from the company's current 10GW pipeline in the US.  ISS was ranked #4 by Solar Word last year and the company will easily be ranked #1 this year due to the companies explosive 20X rapid expansion. Currently the company has approximately 180 projects in development stage in over 22 states. The current projects for…

Canadian Solar announced today the commencement of solar module manufacturing in Sorocaba, Brazil.  The new state-of-the-art manufacturing facility will be Brazil's largest, with 380 MW annual capacity of made in Brazil solar modules.  The official inauguration of this state-of-the-art new solar module facility was attended by the distinguished Mr. Geraldo Alckmin, Governor for the State of Sao Paulo, Mr. Eduardo Azevedo, Secretary from the Ministry of Mines and Energy, Mr. Antonio Carlos Pannunzio, Mayor of Sorocaba and…

A new 30 MW solar facility is dedicated at Fort Stewart by Leaders from Georgia Power and the U.S. Army joined elected officials, community leaders and other dignitaries. The 30 MW alternating current, or 42 MW direct current, solar generation facility is the fourth completed by Georgia Power in collaboration with the military To serve the state's electric customers through five large-scale projects with the U.S. Army and DON, Georgia Power is currently developing more than 150 MW of solar generation. Construction of the…

Principal Solar, Inc. announces that as a step toward executing on a new business strategy, the IS46 has reached mechanical completion and IS42 solar project has reached the final stages of being sold and financed. Net proceeds to PSI are scheduled to be received incrementally between closing and Commercial Operations (September 2017). The proceeds will be used to fund significant transaction costs for the two projects. Michael Gorton, CEO, PSI, states, “We consider this a positive development for the Company and our…