North America

Royal Philips to Use 100% Wind Energy
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 purchase 250,000 megawatt-hours...
City of San Diego Signs 20-year PPA with SunEdison
SunEdison and the City of San Diego have signed a 20-year power purchase agreement (PPA). 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 more than 70 percent...
Detroit Zoo Goes 100% Renewable Energy
The Detroit Zoo has moved to 100 percent renewable electricity to power its Royal Oak campus operations. Detroit Zoo has bought renewable energy certificates (RECs) through ITC Holdings Corp. ITC will supply the RECs from electricity generated by wind farms through...
UC Davis and SunPower Completed 16.3-Megawatt Solar Plant
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 generated power to UC Davis. The...
Solar, Wind, Energy Efficiency Tax Credits Extended by Congress
As seen at RenewableEnergyWorld December 21, 2015 By Scott Sklar President On Dec. 15, House Republicans unveiled legislation that included multiyear extensions of tax credits for solar, wind, biofuels and electric vehicles, and energy efficiency. These bills passed...
Solar Jobs Overtake Coal
According to the National Mining Association, the total number of coal miners in the United States fell from 705,000 in 1923 to 87,000 in 2008, while coal production increased from 565,000 tons to over one billion tons during the same period. The number of coal miners...
Renewables 100% of New Capacity in April
RENEWABLE ENERGY DOMINATES ANOTHER MONTH: WIND + SOLAR = 100% OF NEW CAPACITY IN APRIL OVER 84% OF NEW U.S. GENERATING CAPACITY YEAR-TO-DATE IS FROM RENEWABLES For Release: Tuesday - May 26, 2015 Contact: Ken Bossong, 301-270-6477 x.11 Washington DC – In what is...
PepsiCo Installs 3MW PV Facility in Honduras
The largest rooftop PV system in Latin America, located at PepsiCo Bottling Plant in San Pedro Sula, Honduras. (Photo: Embotelladora de Sula, S.A.) On the roof of PepsiCo’s bottling facility in Honduras the PV developer Smartsolar has installed the largest rooftop...
JCM Capital and Hay Solar Develop PV in Canada
JCM Capital and Hay Solar 30 MW portfolio of modular 100 kW farm-building solar installations in Ontario 12_7_11 http://www.businesswire.com/news/leaderpost/20111130006712/en/JCM-Capital-Hay-Solar-Develop-30-MW...
Risen Energy to build 200MW PV Plant in Durango, Mexico
Risen Energy agreement with the government of Durango, Mexico to build a 200 MW solar power plant 11/28/2011 http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-11-28/risen-energy-signs-200-megawatt-solar-power-deal-in-mexico.html http://www.risenenergy.com/