California said June 23 it intends to sue US Interior Dept. and developer Golden State Wind LLC for an "unlawful agreement" to cancel $120M Morro Bay lease for 2-GW floating wind project.
Invenergy is the latest to accept $765M buyout of wind lease areas in exchange for new gas projects, but developer still is set to build the 800-mile Grain Belt transmission line for land-based wind and solar energy.
Investors and developers are bullish on clean energy to quickly meet nation's power demand surge, but federal actions that undermine projects and remain vague on tax credit rules, as well as slow connection to the grid, could hamper markets.
Project will create Southeast Asia’s largest floating solar facility, building on precedents that have de-risked reservoir-based floating solar at scale
Masdar’s first Malaysian project would deliver Southeast Asia’s largest floating solar plant, signaling growing confidence in utility-scale reservoir-based solar delivery.
ARCHES hub in California and the Pacific Northwest hub filed appeals to DOE over loss of more than $2 billion in grants, with legal action possible, but they intend to press on with project development.
Clean energy developer Arevon Energy this month launched work on the $600M, 300-MW Nighthawk energy storage facility with Rosendin as EPC contractor, and started operation of the $2B, 1-GW Eland Solar-plus-Storage Project built by SOLV Energy.
State agencies, manufacturers, utilities and others are ramping heat pump adoption efforts, while a Washington state judge on March 21 revoked a passed ballot measure that aimed to retain natural gas use in the state building code.
Commonwealth Fusion will locate 400-MW facility near Richmond. aiming to secure permits next year and operate by the early 2030s—backed by more than $2B in private investment and government funding.
The 742-MW Net Zero Teesside Power project in northeast England could become one of the world’s first commercial-scale gas-fired power plants with carbon capture and storage.
In a deal with state regulators, environmental groups and business leaders, the utility will spend $11 billion on solar, wind and grid storage investments and retire coal production by 2032, but the plan still is set to rely heavily on natural gas production as a supplemental resource.
EPC contract for 300-MW facility in Permian Basin, which will produce power and industrial grade CO2 that can be sold or sequestered, will be awarded by year end.