Energy Update
Construction is underway on the largest solar project to date in South Dakota.
National Grid Renewables announced on Jan. 10 the start of onsite field construction at its 128 MWac Wild Springs Solar Project in Pennington County, South Dakota.
The project is located in the Southwest Power Pool and has a 114 MW power purchase agreement with Basin Electric Power Cooperative.
Ames Construction is the engineering, procurement, and construction firm on the project.
Work is underway on the 134 MWdc (107 MWac) Arche Solar project in Fulton County, Ohio, near Toledo.
Abbe Ramanan, Clean Energy Group
Community Offshore Wind, a joint venture between RWE Renewables and National Grid, has launched its geophysical survey campaign to study seabed conditions within the project lease area and potential export cable corridors in the New York Bight.
Trina Solar said it started production in late December of its 210mm n-type i-TOPCon cells. The cells are manufactured in its 8 GW factory in Suqian, Jiangsu province in China.
The n-type cells are expected to be used to produce on Vertex N modules, which Trina said have a power output of up to 605W and efficiency as high as 22.4%.
Published reports said that Siva Powers America is eyeing a two-phase development project to assemble wind turbines for the domestic U.S. market.
Initial plans call for a $2.5 million, 10,000-square-foot manufacturing facility near Buffalo, New York, where the company would assemble nacelles and blades produced in India.
Future plans call for turbine blade manufacturing to be relocated to the New York State site from India.
Kenya Electricity Generating Company PLC (KenGen) has announced a renewed plan to scale up the deployment of renewable energy by adding 3,000 MW.
Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer Abraham Serem said the company revamped its corporate strategy and rolled out a 10-year strategy that seeks to add 3,000 MW. He further added that the company will be seeking to rehabilitate its existing power plants to make them more efficient for sustainable generation.
South Dakota regulators approved with conditions a permit for North Bend Wind Project, a 200 MW wind energy facility proposed by ENGIE North America.
The project would be near company’s 92 tower Triple H Wind Farm and would consist of up to 71 wind turbines spread across some 47,000 acres in Hughes and Hyde County.
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