As a way to reduce risk and costs associated with the procurement of renewable energy and to simplify renewable energy access for the data center provider, Iron Mountain worked with Birch Infrastructure who teamed up with REsurety.

To help reduce risk and costs and simplify renewable energy for Iron Mountain, Birch teamed up with REsurety, a provider of valuation analytics and risk management services in the renewable energy market. Specifically, Birch incorporated two weather-linked risk management products to improve on the standard virtual Power Purchase Agreement (vPPA) – a Settlement Guarantee Agreement (SGA) and a Volume Firming Agreement (VFA).

To help reduce risk and costs and simplify renewable energy for Iron Mountain, Birch teamed up with REsurety, a provider of valuation analytics and risk management services in the renewable energy market. Specifically, Birch incorporated two weather-linked risk management products to improve on the standard virtual Power Purchase Agreement (vPPA) – a Settlement Guarantee Agreement (SGA) and a Volume Firming Agreement (VFA).

Iron Mountain announced Oct. 6 a new project focused on continuously and cost-effectively powering their data centers in five states with renewable energy using risk management tools that increase reliability.

Birch Infrastructure created a solution for Iron Mountain using energy produced at the Ringer Hill Wind Farm in Pennsylvania and the Dermott Wind project in Texas that will be financially firmed up into reliable 24/7 service. The data center provider previously completed PPAs with the two wind farms in 2016 and 2017.

To help reduce risk and costs and simplify renewable energy for Iron Mountain, Birch teamed up with REsurety, a provider of valuation analytics and risk management services in the renewable energy market. Specifically, Birch incorporated two weather-linked risk management products to improve on the standard virtual Power Purchase Agreement (vPPA) – a Settlement Guarantee Agreement (SGA) and a Volume Firming Agreement (VFA).

WRISE and GRID Alternatives today (Sept 23) announced their selection of eight women for the 2020 Rising Women Solar Fellowship. The fellowship is an opportunity for women from diverse backgrounds who are interested in solar careers to participate in North American Smart Energy Week for networking, mentorship and solar education.

WRISE and GRID Alternatives announced their selection of eight women for the 2020 Rising Women Solar Fellowship. The fellowship is an opportunity for women from diverse backgrounds who are interested in solar careers to participate in North American Smart Energy Week for networking, mentorship and solar education. Part of GRID and WRISE’s workforce diversity initiatives, the program is aimed at women training for careers in installation and design as well as college and graduate students studying renewable energy and related fields.

Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman is launching one of the legal industry’s first dedicated hydrogen practices as the energy sector moves towards cleaner energy and lower carbon emissions.

The new practice will be led by Pillsbury’s energy industry group leader Sheila Harvey and Mona Dajani, who is head of the firm’s renewable energy practice and co-leader of its energy and infrastructure projects team.

WRISE and GRID Alternatives announced their selection of eight women for the 2020 Rising Women Solar Fellowship. The fellowship is an opportunity for women from diverse backgrounds who are interested in solar careers to participate in North American Smart Energy Week for networking, mentorship and solar education. Part of GRID and WRISE’s workforce diversity initiatives, the program is aimed at women training for careers in installation and design as well as college and graduate students studying renewable energy and related fields.

Sage Energy Consulting, a leader in comprehensive sustainable energy project planning and implementation, announced that Theo Bosch is joining their team as a Project Manager. Theo brings experience in both energy efficiency and solar and storage development and deployment to Sage’s work to help businesses, public agencies, and schools save money with renewable energy. He will also assist in the technical analysis of solar, battery, microgrid, electric fleets, and zero net energy projects.

Vermont’s solar farm developers are becoming more enamored with having sites double as habitat for bees and other pollinators.

Chad Farrell, founder and chief executive officer of Encore Renewable Energy, said his company was among the first to incorporate pollinator-friendly ground cover into one of its projects — an array built in Hinesburg.

“We’re basically working on a policy that all of our projects will be completed with pollinator friendly ground cover,” he said. “We’ve been working hard to get our financing partners comfortable and on board with the concept of establishing pollinator friendly ground over at these sites.”

Ares Management Corp’s 525 MW Aviator wind farm in Texas had to navigate some COVID-related turbulence, but the private equity firm was ultimately able to bring on board a pair of very different buyers and land the deal safely last month.

Cape Elizabeth town officials are moving forward with a new solar panel project that is expected to provide three-quarters of municipal electricity needs and save the town $900,000 in energy costs over the project’s 20-year lifetime.

The Town Council voted at its July 20 meeting to allow Town Manager Matthew Sturgis to begin negotiations with Vermont-based Encore Renewable Energy to build the project.

In Wood Mackenzie’s newest report, “US microgrid forecast H1 2020: Coronavirus delays projects and impacts origination,” the organization shares that 546 microgrids were installed in the United States during 2019, more than any other year.

One of these forthcoming renewable microgrid projects will be used to power the Santa Barbara Unified School District in California. The District, in collaboration with Sage Energy Consulting, has issued a request for proposals (RFP) for the design, installation, operation and maintenance of solar-driven microgrids across 15 sites.

The campaign being led by the American Council of Energy (Acore) to lock in private sector commitments of $1trn in renewable energy projects by 2030 will need to pull in investment of almost $88bn a year through to the end of the decade to meet its goal, the advocacy body said in its latest progress-tracker report on the project.

Clean Energy Associates, a leading solar and storage supply technical advisory, released its first-quarter. PV Supplier Market Intelligence Program Report 2020. The report, available by subscription, is authored by CEA’s Technology and Quality team and includes insights gathered from 1-on-1 interviews with the technical leaders at many of the industry’s leading suppliers.