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A round-up of news from the US community solar sector this week, including Altus Power, Castillo Energy, NSE and CCSA.

Hecate Energy has selected PEC Construction Management as its owner's representative for its Cider Solar Farm in New York state.

US community solar has installed a record of 1.7GW in 2024, a 35% increase from 2023, according to a report from Wood Mackenzie and trade body the Coalition for Community Solar Access.

This comes after the IPP received siting permit and a formal notice to proceed with construction from the New York Office of Renewable Energy Siting and Transmission (ORES).

In total, 30 of the projects are solar PV – either utility-scale or distributed energy generation (DER) – and would add 2.8GW of capacity.

Independent power producer (IPP) Greenbacker Renewable Energy Company has secured US$950 million in aggregate financing to support the acquisition, construction and operation of a 500MWac solar PV power plant being pursued in the state of New York, US.

New York state has issued its final siting permit for AES’ 125MW Somerset solar project, to be built on former industrial land.

The contracts are spread across 23 large-scale renewables projects, 19 of which are solar PV projects with a combined 1.5GW capacity.

With talks of repowering nuclear power plants in the US for data centres, VPPs can be an immediate alternative to cover data centres needs.

New York governor Kathy Hochul has announced that the state has reached its target of installing 6GW of distributed solar capacity.