Showing posts with label USA. Show all posts
Showing posts with label USA. Show all posts

Saturday 4 January 2020

US Federal officials plan to approve a massive solar farm with energy storage in the desert outside Las Vegas

According to the Los Angeles Times United States Federal officials plan to approve a massive solar farm with energy storage in the desert outside Las Vegas. A $1-billion project that will provide electricity to Nevada residents served by Warren Buffett’s NV Energy. At 690 megawatts across 7,100 acres, the facility would generate more power than the largest solar farm currently operating in the United States.
 
 

Monday 16 December 2019

US Installed 2.6 GW New Solar In Q3/2019 - Up 45%

According to Taiyangnews citing the Solar Market Insight report (LINK), the US saw 712 MW of new residential solar installations in the third quarter of 2019 which is a record for this segment and helped take total PV installations in the reporting period to 2.6 GW, growing 45% over last year and 25% up from the previous quarter, according to the Q4 2019 US Solar Market Insight report. The cumulative solar PV capacity of the US market until the end of Q3/2019 has now reached 71.3 GW.
  • In 2019, the report forecasts the US market to install 13 GW of total capacity, growing 23% annually
  • Growing more than double over the next five years, annual installations are expected to reach 20.1 GW by 2021