May 2016 - The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Engineering and Support Center, Huntsville, AL and SunPower have agreed to build a 66 acre on-site solar project. The project will generate about 18,000 megawatt hours of solar energy annually. Redstone Arsenal …
May 2016 - FirstEnergy will offer a limited number of its Ohio customers the opportunity to buy 100 percent wind energy-generated electricity at the same price as its standard power. The program, "Switch2Green4Free" offers Green-e Energy …
May 2016 - The Department of Energy's National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) has released its assessment of leading utility green power programs. Using information provided by utilities, NREL has developed "Top 10" rankings of utility …
January 2016 - Switch, a datacenter developer, continues to move forward in its commitment to run all of its data centers on renewable energy. Switch, together with Michigan's local utility Consumers Energy, will power the SUPERNAP Michigan data center …
January 2016 - The San Francisco Public Utilities Commission (PUC) will launch CleanPowerSF in May. CleanPowerSF is a Community Choice Aggregation that was nearly a decade in the making and will increase the city's renewable energy use from the current …
February 2016 - The Colorado Energy Office (CEO) and GRID Alternatives have launched five community solar projects to provide solar power to low-income households in rural Colorado. The project was designed to demonstrate the feasibility of community solar …
February 2016 - Global conglomerate company 3M has signed a 120-megawatt (MW) wind power purchase agreement (PPA) with Invenergy to provide renewable energy for 3M's operations across North America. The PPA involves wind energy from the Gunsight Wind …
February 2016 - PG&E has launched its Solar Choice program, a community solar program available to all PG&E customers. Customers have the option to purchase enough solar energy to meet between 50 and 100 percent of their electricity use. The …
February 2016 - Lockheed Martin has signed a 17-year power purchase agreement (PPA) with Duke Energy Renewables for 30 megawatts of solar capacity. The PPA is expected to generate about 72,000 megawatt-hours of electricity per year. The solar project is …
February 2016 - Google has signed a 225-megawatt wind power purchase agreement (PPA) with Invenergy to provide renewable energy for its data center operations. Invenergy will provide approximately 965,000 megawatt-hours of renewable energy annually from …
February 2016 - Sonoma Clean Power, a community choice aggregation, has approved two large-scale solar power projects in Sonoma County, California. Under a power purchase agreement, Sonoma Clean Power will buy power from two projects around Petaluma City …
April 2016 - US Community Solar Continues to Expand South Carolina is set to become the 27th state to implement a community solar program, which allows utility customers to purchase panels from a solar project hosted outside their homes and receive …
April 2016 - Whole Foods Market and SolarCity will retrofit up to 100 Whole Foods stores with rooftop solar across the US. SolarCity will custom design each solar power system to maximize the of grid power. Whole Foods will save money by purchasing power …
January 2016 - SunEdison and the City of San Diego have signed a 20-year power-purchase agreement. Under the agreement, SunEdison will install 6.6 megawatts of solar systems across 25 city-owned sites in San Diego. The solar systems are expected to supply …
January 2016 - The Detroit Zoo has moved to 100 percent renewable electricity to power its Royal Oak campus operations. Detroit Zoo has bought renewable energy credits (RECs) through ITC Holdings Corp. ITC will supply the RECs from electricity generated by …
January 2016 - University of California, Davis (UC Davis), together with San Jose-based SunPower, has constructed a 16.3-megawatt (AC) solar power plant on a 62-acre site south of Interstate 80. SunPower will own and operate the project and sell the …
January 2016 - Royal Philips, a Netherlands-based technology company, will use wind energy for all of the electricity used at the company's 133 North American sites by the end of 2016. Under a deal with EDP Renewables North America, Royal Philips will …
December 2015 - In response to customer demand for electricity from renewable energy, Xcel Energy will offer its Minnesota customers the option to sign long-term contracts to purchase electricity generated by wind and solar farms under a proposed program …
December 2015 - Google will purchase enough energy from a 61-megawatt solar project in Rutherford County, North Carolina to power an entire data center. The purchase is the first agreement reached under Duke Energy's Green Source Rider program. Under …
December 2015 - Amazon Web Service (AWS) has contracted with EDP Renewables to build a 100-megawatt wind farm in Paulding County, Ohio. The wind project, named the Amazon Wind Farm US Central, will have the capacity to produce approximately 320,000 …
