Tag: Texas

July 16, 2024

Avangrid said it has started producing power from the first phase of the True North solar project in Texas, an installation the company said is its first solar installation in the state. Avangrid, headquartered in Orange, Connecticut, on July 15 […]

June 10, 2024

National Grid Renewables has launched commercial operations at its 150-MW Copperhead solar park and its integrated battery storage system in the state of Texas. The US onshore renewables business of British energy transmission and distribution company National Grid plc (LON:NG) […]

May 22, 2024

US engineering company Bechtel Corp said on Tuesday that the 218-MWac/272-MWdc Cutlass Solar II project it built for a Turkish client in Fort Bend, Texas, is now fully operational and sending power to the grid. Bechtel delivered the solar farm […]

April 3, 2024

Arizona-based solar power deployment platform Erthos Inc said on Tuesday that its technology has been selected by developer Sky Community Solar for the realisation of a 180-MW portfolio of community solar projects in Texas. Erthos has signed a master agreement […]

February 28, 2024

The interim CEO of Texas-based NRG Energy Inc. said the company plans to apply for up to $900 million in loans from the state in order to finance construction of new natural gas-fired power plants. Larry Coben, who was appointed […]

February 13, 2024

A Texas-based energy company has announced plans to build a 1.2-GW natural gas-fired power plant in Lee County, Texas, with construction expected to begin in 2025. Sandow Lakes Energy Co. on Feb. 12 said it would build the plant on […]

November 13, 2023

A France-based energy group said it has an agreement to buy three natural gas-fired power plants in Texas. The facilities, one near Dallas and two south of Houston, represent about 1.5 GW of generation capacity. TotalEnergies, a multinational company operating […]

October 9, 2023

A Texas utility that expects to bring another 228 MW of natural gas-fired power generation online in December also plans to begin operating an additional four gas-fired units over the next several years, according to regulatory filings. El Paso Electric […]

August 31, 2023

What if they gave an offshore wind party in Texas and nobody came? That’s what happened last week, when the Biden administration tempted the global wind industry to compete for two new offshore lease areas along the Texas coast. Nobody […]

June 5, 2023

Linea Energy has acquired a 490MWdc solar project in Texas from Horus Energy. The project is expected to generate enough clean energy to power more than 63,000 homes and provide numerous local job opportunities during its construction and operation. Linea […]

February 9, 2023

Texans can now get paid for supporting the grid with their solar panels and batteries as part of a new virtual power plant pilot. What happens next could lead to the rapid deployment of resilient and clean distributed energy resources […]

January 24, 2023

With the partnership, Octopus Energy customers in the US will be able to integrate Enphase home solar and battery solutions in their energy plan in the hopes of accessing low-cost residential energy rates. With Kraken Flex, Octopus Energy’s proprietary software […]

December 2, 2022

Entergy Texas is calling for 2,000 MW of solar and wind generating resources through a recently issued request for proposals (RFP). The RFP represents a substantial increase from prior solicitations. Since 2019, Entergy Texas has issued two RFPs totaling 600 […]

November 21, 2022

CSI Energy Storage said it will provide up to 2.6 GWh of battery energy storage capacity for the build-out of energy storage projects managed by UBS Asset Management’s Real Estate & Private Markets business in North America. The projects are […]

October 20, 2022

Homeowners across the world have been investing in rooftop solar PV for at least two decades with much of that investment taking place over the past five years. As battery pricing has dropped, many of those same solar enthusiasts have […]

August 4, 2022

The state’s High Plains region, which covers 41 counties in the Texas Panhandle and West Texas, is home to more than 11,000 wind turbines — the most in any area of the state. The region could generate enough wind energy […]

July 22, 2022

A 350 MW wind farm paired with a 137 MW/204.6 MWh battery storage facility is now operational in Texas. The Azure Sky project in Throckmorton County is Enel Green Power’s first hybrid wind+storage project. It features 79 wind turbines— a […]

July 5, 2022

Jupiter Power’s 200 MW/200 MWh standalone battery storage facility is now commercially operable. Crossett Power Management, located in Crane County, Texas, now becomes one of the largest battery storage projects in ERCOT, the grid operator representing 90 percent of the […]

April 18, 2022

Vistra said it completed a 65 MWdc/50 MWac solar project at the Brightside Solar Facility, which is now online in Southeast Texas. Brightside Solar Facility uses 147,732 of First Solar’s 440-watt thin-film solar modules with single-axis trackers. The project also […]

February 4, 2022

Parts of Texas have suffered localized, distribution-level power outages as an Arctic outbreak sent temperatures plummeting across the state, but its heavily scrutinized grid is largely prepared to weather the storm, state entities said. Frigid temperatures stemming from a large […]