Supervisors in the northern Iowa county of Cerro Gordo have passed an ordinance prohibiting the installation of new utility-scale solar, wind and BESS facilities located on land zoned for agricultural use.
Freyr has completed the acquisition of Chinese firm Trina Solar’s Texas solar manufacturing assets, completing its transition from a European battery company to a US solar one.
The US Department of Energy’s (DOE) Loan Programs Office (LPO) has committed US$584.5 million to Convergent Energy and Power to build solar and battery energy storage systems (BESS) in Puerto Rico.
The US Department of Energy (DOE) has released its draft Energy Storage Strategy and Roadmap (SRM), a plan providing strategic direction and opportunities to optimise DOE’s energy storage investments ahead of the incoming Trump administration.