A new photovoltaic solar farm has recently begun producing electricity near Lexington, North Carolina. The Davidson County Solar Farm is a project that has been developed by SunEdison and Golden Crescent Investment Group and they have entered a 20 year agreement with Duke Energy who will buy the electricity from the farm. The solar energy [...]
In October 2008 it was announced that a solar power plant was planned at the Fort Irwin base in the Mojave Desert in California. This installation is to have a capacity of 500MW, originally generated from thermal solar power.
Further news has just been released regarding the project and a couple of development partners have been announced for the project, [...]
The Cedar Ridge Wind Farm in Fond du Lac County Wisconsin has just begun generating power for the Wisconsin Power & Light Co.
This wind farm consists of 41 wind turbines with a maximum capacity of generating 68MW of electricity. The renewable energy sourced electricity be enough to send power to 17,000 homes in the area. This is [...]
An innovative solar farm in St George, Utah is now nearing completion, due to start commercial electricity production in December. The photovoltaic system, which has been dubbed SunSmart, will consist of 466 solar panels and will be the first community owned solar renewable energy concept of its kind.
The concept involves homeowners to buy shares, costing [...]
A new concentrating solar power (CSP) plant has recently gone into operation near Bakersfield, California. The Kimberlina solar power plant has a 5MW capacity and although the size appears small, the facility is significant for solar developer Ausra because it will act as a demonstration of the technology that will be used for the Carrizo [...]
The Sherbino Wind Farm is a 150MW project sited in Pecos County in Texas and the first phase has been brought on-line to full commercial operation. Heading the project is BP Wind Energy in partnership with Padoma Wind Power, a subsidiary of NRG Energy.
This project is the first of what could become a maximum capacity [...]
