Transmission Access Drives Development of Renewable Projects at Coal, Nuclear Sites
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SUGAR LAND, TEXAS May 12, 2021 Written by John Egan for Industrial Info Resources (Sugar Land, Texas) NextEra Energy Incorporated (NYSE:NEE) (Juno Beach, Florida) in late-March announced plans to build a 690-megawatt (MW) solar power plant adjacent to its closed Duane Arnold nuclear plant in Iowa. A few weeks later, Xcel Energy Incorporated (NASDAQ:XEL) (Minneapolis, Minnesota) said it was partnering with National Grid Renewables (Bloomington, Minnesota) to build a 460-MW solar power plant on the site of its soon-to-be closed Sherco coal-fired power plant in Minnesota.
Hearth & Home earns honor
Hearth & Home Technologies Lake City manufacturing facility was recognized as one of the area s 2021 Best Places to work in southeast Minnesota. This is the ninth time the location has won this honor.
Hearth & Home Technologies was one of 15 organizations representing Dodge, Fillmore, Freeborn, Goodhue, Houston, Mower, Olmstead, Rice, Steele, Wabasha, and Winona counties chosen as a recipient of the Workforce Developmentâs 2021 Best Places to Work award out of 44 total businesses and was one of the recipients in the Large Employer category.
The Best Places to Work awards program is a commissioned study by Workforce Development Inc. The purpose is to recognize employers but also to provide vital information to companies about the practices they use to attract and retain employees. The data was measured on such parameters as: turnover, rate of growth, promotion rates, employee evaluations and feedback, percentage of employee injured, diversity
Watertown Daily Times LOWVILLE Large-scale solar projects are moving forward across the North Country and statewide, ramping up to submit successful applications to the Office of Renewable Energy Siting the equivalent of the new siting board in the expedited approval process that replaced Article 10, 94-C. San Diego-based EDF Renewables, a subsidiary of the French utility company, EDF, announced its contract with the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority under the 2020 Renewable Energy Standard solicitation for three of its projects on Thursday. One of the three, Tracy Solar Energy Center, is a 119-megawatt project in the towns of Orleans and Clayton that includes a 5-megawatt energy storage system.
Fayette Solar presents case
By Tim Colliver - tcolliver@aimmediamidwest.com
The highlighted part of this coverage map shows the parameters of Fayette Solar, provided by National Grid Renewables. Fayette Solar is proposed to occupy 517 acres of land in southeastern Fayette County, just across the Highland County/Fayette County line between Bonner, Barrett and Beatty Roads, and a segment of northeastern Highland County, roughly one-half mile north of Greenfield, with connection to the electric grid at the existing Greenfield substation.
Tim Colliver | The Times-Gazette
The company behind the proposed Fayette Solar solar array system held an open house Thursday evening to acquaint those in Greenfield and Madison Township with its plans for a 47.5-megawatt solar panel farm, of which 7.5 megawatts of photovoltaic cells are slated to be built just one-half mile north of Greenfield.
LOWVILLE â Large-scale solar projects are moving forward across the north country and statewide, ramping up to submit successful applications to the Office of Renewable Energy Siting â the equivalent of the new siting board in the expedited approval process that replaced Article 10, 94-C.
San Diego-based EDF Renewables, a subsidiary of the French utility company, EDF, announced its contract with NYSERDA under the 2020 Renewable Energy Standard solicitation for three of its projects on Thursday.
One of the three, Tracy Solar Energy Center, is a 119-megawatt project in the towns of Orleans and Clayton that includes a 5-megawatt energy storage system.
This coveted incentive provides a guaranteed revenue stream for the energy produced by the project which will be sold to NYSERDA in the form of âenergy creditsâ which are then sold to state utilities.