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SunZia, a massive clean energy project in the US Southwest, has closed $11 billion non-recourse financing and launched full construction.

The largest clean energy project in US history closes $11B, starts full construction

SunZia, a massive clean energy project in the US Southwest, has closed $11 billion non-recourse financing and launched full construction.

Daniel Elkort, executive vice president at Pattern Energy, the project’s California-based developer, said about the milestone finance package:

The size and scale of both the SunZia project and this multifaceted financing show that the renewable energy space can secure attractive capital at levels previously only seen in traditional generation.

The largest clean energy project in the US comprises two arms: SunZia Wind and SunZia Transmission. The projects will employ more than 2,000 workers onsite during construction, including heavy equipment operators, electricians, laborers, and others.

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Source: electrek

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The $1 billion investment will be the largest clean energy project in KY and one of the largest in the US to be built on former mine lands.

Rivian and partners are turning a huge Kentucky coal mine into an 800 MW solar farm

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Rivian, BrightNight, and The Nature Conservancy will together turn one of the largest coal mines in the US into Kentucky’s largest solar farm.

Starfire Mine used to be one of the largest coal mines in the US. And now, global renewable power producer BrightNight’s CEO Martin Hermann, Rivian’s founder and CEO RJ Scaringe, and The Nature Conservancy’s CEO Jennifer Morris announced today that all three companies will work together to transform Kentucky’s Starfire into a solar farm.

Rivian and The Nature Conservancy collaborated to choose “a clean energy project that would accelerate an equitable, science-based clean energy transition that maximizes positive impacts on climate, conservation, and communities,” and they selected BrightNight to be the Starfire solar project’s developer.

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Source: electrek

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SDSU and Cuyamaca College have been chosen as part of a US DOE program intended to streamline career paths for students interested in the clean energy economy.

SDSU & Cuyamaca College to share in federally funded clean energy project

San Diego State University (SDSU) and Cuyamaca College have been chosen as part of a U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) program intended to streamline career paths for students interested in the clean energy economy.

They are among a group of higher education institutions tapped to serve as Centers of Excellence for DOE’s Industrial Assessment Centers (IAC) Program. Those selected as part of the competitive process will receive a combined $18.7 million in funding from President Joe Biden’s Bipartisan Infrastructure Law.

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Source: Times of San Diego

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