Energy Update
Duke Energy Sustainable Solutions, a nonregulated commercial brand of its investor-owned utility parent company Duke Energy, has placed into commercial operation a 207 MW wind farm in Iowa.
Qcells said it plans to invest more than $2.5 billion to build what it said would be a complete silicon-based solar supply chain in the United States.
The Korea-based company said it plans to break ground in Georgia during the first quarter on a facility to manufacture 3.3 GW of solar ingots, wafers, cells, and finished panels.
China-based solar cell and module manufacturer JA Solar has announced plans to establish a 2 GW production facility in Phoenix, Arizona, its first in the U.S.
The plant is expected to be operational by the end of next year. JA Solar said the $60 million investment will create 600 new jobs.
Shell Energy Australia is partnering up on – and will connect to the grid – a 500MW/1GWh BESS (Battery Energy Storage System), to be built on the site of the old Wallerawang Power Station near Lithgow, New South Wales (NSW).
Shell plans to build, own and operate this Wallerawang 9 battery, which will sit within the Wallerawang power station site, where two 500MW coal-fired generating units were decommissioned in 2014.
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.
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