Utility-scale

Energy Storage Battery

Vistra Approved to Build a Grid Battery Bigger than All Utility-Scale Storage in the US Combined

A permit to expand Vistra’s natural gas-fired Moss Landing generation station to 1,500 MW/6,000 MWh has been approved.

Coal-Fired Power Plants

U.S. Gas-Fired Plants Convert Nearly Half of Fuel to Power

More than 60 percent of the energy consumed by U.S. utility-scale power generation facilities was lost in the conversion to electricity last year, according to …

Solar Power Plant

Longroad Energy to Build Solar and Battery Storage Projects in Hawai'i

Renewable energy project developer Longroad Energy has been selected to develop two utility-scale solar and battery storage projects in Hawai'i.

Energy Storage Project

Hawaiian Electric Selects Plus Power's 185MW KES Project

Independent developer of utility-scale battery storage projects Plus Power has announced that its 185MW/565MWh Kapolei Energy Storage project has been selected …

Solar Technology

Arctech Solar Delivered 575MW SkyLine Trackers to Middle East's Largest PV Plant

This project is not only the largest utility-scale PV plant in the Middle East to date, but also one of the world's largest PV plant boasting single-axis tracke…

Solar Power Plant

Powertis to Develop 500MW of Solar PV Projects in Italy

Spanish utility-scale solar plants developer Powertis has unveiled plans to develop a portfolio of 500MW solar photovoltaic projects in Italy.

Wind Power Project

MIGA Backs Djibouti's First Utility-Scale Wind Project

The multilateral investment guarantee agency, a member of the world bank group, has issued guarantees to support djibouti's first utility-scale wind power proje…

Wind Farm

150MW Wind Power Farm to be Constructed in Northern Iowa, US

A 150MW wind power farm is set to be constructed in Northern Iowa, US by White Construction, a subsidiary of Infrastructure and Energy Alternatives that manages…

Solar Power Plant

Geronimo Signs VPPA with Cargill for 200MW US Solar Project

Geronimo energy, a utility-scale wind and solar developer, signed a virtual power purchase agreement with cargill.

Solar Power Plant

Vietnam Approves New FiTs for Solar Power Projects

The government of Vietnam has unveiled new feed-in tariff rates for utility-scale, rooftop and floating solar PV projects.

Solar Power Plant

US Government Expects Domestic Solar Market to Install 24 GW in 2020

An agency under the Department of Energy expects 17.4 GW (DC) of utility-scale solar power and 6.6 GW of small-scale solar to be installed in 2020. The 24 GW to…

Solar Power Panel

Lightsource BP Spends $100 million on Equipment to Fuel Solar Expansion

San Francisco-based utility-scale solar developer Lightsource BP is prepping a 4-gigawatt pipeline of projects with “solar tracking” equipment from Array Tech…

First Utility-Scale Gas Engine Power Plant Is Operational in Papua New Guinea

A 58 MW plant was supplied and built by Finnish technology group Wärtsilä and was inaugurated by Papua New Guinea prime minister James Marape. The plant is in…

NextEra Starts Construction on Largest Solar Project in Arkansas

A subsidiary of NextEra Energy Resources and Entergy Arkansas announced the start of construction of Arkansas’ largest universal, utility-scale solar energy pr…

Energy Storage Project

34.8% Growth Anticipated in the Global Utility-Scale Energy Storage Market

Navigant Research has released a new report which analyses market drivers, challenges, key trends and growth projections for the global utility-scale energy sto…