arkansas

US IPP Cypress Creek Energy has started construction work at its Steel River Energy Center in Arkansas, which will include 2.5GW of solar PV and sell power to tech giant Google.

US independent power producer (IPP) Cypress Creek Energy has secured US$3.5 billion in financing to support the development of a 1.63GW/1.9GWh solar-plus-storage project in Arkansas.

Meta and EDP Renewables North America have signed a power purchase agreement (PPA) for the 250MW Cypress Knee Solar project in the US.

Entergy Arkansas has announced plans to build a 600MW solar-plus-storage project to support a new data centre to be built by Google.

VDE Americas has verified the successful deployment of the hail mitigation function of GameChange Solar’s Genius trackers.

A round-up of news from the US solar sector this week, including Akuo, Meta and RWE.

US tech giants Meta and Microsoft have both respectively signed solar PV agreements with developers Cypress Creek Renewables and Silicon Ranch in the US.

The announcement comes just days after the Trump administration announced plans for a 25% tariff on steel and aluminium imports.

Entergy commissioned a 100MW project in the state of Arkansas, while Ammper Power and Elawan signed power purchase agreements (PPAs) in Texas.

Renewables developer EDP Renewables North America has built a 157MW solar PV project in Arkansas, marking the company’s entry into the state.