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Southern US utility the El Paso Electric (EPE) Company has issued a request for proposals (RFP) for renewable energy projects to serve its customers in New Mexico.

sonnenConnect will deploy a time of use (TOU) algorithm which, in conjunction with a battery (which NEM 3.0 reportedly incentivises), “ensures customers will not pay peak-period pricing at any point throughout the year”, the company said.

Virginia-headquartered energy utility Dominion Energy has filed a proposal with the Virginia State Corporation Commission (SCC) for 772MW worth of solar PV capacity in the state.

Consumers Energy will build an 85MW solar plant at the site of two coal-fired power plants in Michigan, which it closed in June this year.

Southeast US utility Duke Energy has sold its distributed commercial generation portfolio – including solar PV developer REC Solar and all of its assets – to investment firm ArcLight Capital Partners. Financial details of the transaction were not disclosed.

2023 is on track to be a “record year” for solar PV installations in the US; through August, 8.4GW of utility-scale solar was installed, 50% more than the equivalent point in 2022. In those deployments, some trends have emerged.

Soltec has signed an agreement to provide a new solar project in the US state of Missouri with 302MW of its SF7 tracker.

National Grid Renewables has begun operations on the 247MW Yellowbud solar PV project, delivering power to Amazon under a pre-arranged PPA.

The EIA's latest figures reveal 6% decline in the average cost of building a new solar facility in the US between 2020 and 2021.

TotalEnergies has signed a PPA with Saint-Gobain to supply the latter with electricity from its Danish Fields solar farm in Texas.