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By Martin McConnell July 16, 2026 Energy infrastructure company and capital partner PearlX has announced plans for a 224 kW solar energy system at the Golden Sands Apartments in Victorville, California. Founded through a partnership between PearlX, Aspen real estate financingand the San Bernardino Housing Authoritythe solar will serve staff housing customers in need of savings on bills, the company says. The partnership is an example of PearlX’s Energy Estate model, the company says, which treats multifamily buildings as “distributed network assets with long-term financeable value.” “This public-private partnership shows that the Energy Estate model can be scaled across the…
The Gore Street Energy Storage Fund (GSF) has posted a big drop in net asset value (NAV) for the financial year ending March 31, 2026, in a year it described as difficult but consistent with the cyclical nature of the sector.Net asset value (NAV) fell 14.8%, or 13p, to 74.9p per share in the fourth quarter of the company’s financial year, taking the total decline for the twelve months to March 31 to just over 27%.The fund, a subsidiary of Gore Street Capital, acquires, builds and operates utility-scale battery energy storage systems (BESS). It owns 28 assets across California, Ireland,…
Solis has supplied energy storage and hybrid inverters to its first commercial and industrial project in the UK.The solar PV inverter and energy storage provider announced that its products have been supplied to the Robert Jones and Agnes Hunt (RJAH) Orthopedic Hospital in Shropshire and the project has commenced commercial operations.Renewable energy installer ZLC Energy carried out the project installation, which combines large-scale solar generation with battery energy storage to reduce energy costs and optimize energy consumption at the site.According to ZLC Energy, solar installations have been underway since 2020, ultimately installing 7,500 solar panels on the hospital’s roofs and…
According to the Federal Network Agency (Bundesnetzagentur), Germany deployed approximately 1.28 GW of new PV capacity in June. This compares to 1.29 GW in May and 1.1 GW in June 2025. Newly installed PV capacity for the first six months of this year amounted to 7.39 GW, a slight increase from around 8 GW in the same period a year earlier. The country’s cumulative installed solar power, meanwhile, reached 125.2 GW at the end of June. A detailed analysis for June shows little change compared to previous months, with capacity additions in April and May also remaining around 1.3 GW.…
NextEnergy Solar Fund (NESF) is for sale, after years of low share prices and low net asset value (NAV).The company’s board is seeking expressions of interest from potential buyers “who understand and appreciate the full potential of the company.” NESF is a UK-focused solar energy and energy storage investment fund.Following a strategic review launched last year, NESF said a sale would be “in the best interests of shareholders”. The company has a discounted NAV compared to what it says is the real value of its assets, in addition to a reduced share price.In December it attributed falling asset values to…
Idaho is getting a community solar project. The Boise City Council has voted to place the proposed fiscal year 2027 budget on the reading calendar, with a final approval date scheduled for August 25. The budget includes a $50,000 line item for the city’s first solar pilot project. This comes after more than two years of advocacy Idaho Sierra Club youth team, staff, supporters and partners. “The city made a commitment back in 2019 to develop community solar projects, but nothing has come of it,” said Anise Welty, teen leader of the Idaho Sierra Club’s Climate Justice League youth team,…
The Second Quarter 2026 Edition of “The 50 States of SolarThe report shows that 45 states, plus the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico, have taken some form of policy action on distributed solar by the second quarter of 2026, with the largest number of actions continuing to focus on net metering policies (53), community solar policies (48), and increases in residential fixed charges or minimum bills (45). A total of 284 distributed solar policy actions were taken in the second quarter of 2026, with the most actions taken in Illinois, Maryland, New Jersey, Virginia, New Hampshire, Connecticut, Maine and…
By Martin McConnell July 14, 2026 Construction on the largest solar and storage project in U.S. history is officially underway, officials say Cypress Creek Energy And Googling. The construction team broke ground on the first two phases of the Wilson, Arkansas-based Steel River Energy Center on July 14, representatives said. These two phases alone will deliver approximately 1.6 GWdc of new solar generation to the local grid, as well as 1.9 GWh of battery storage, which will help support economic growth in the natural state. In total, the project will deliver 2.5 GWdc and 2.9 GWh of battery storage once…
Independent power producer (IPP) Aura Power has secured planning permission for a 100MW/400MWh battery energy storage system (BESS) in Sandford, North Somerset.North Somerset Council gave the green light to the 4-hour Sandford BESS, which will be connected via the existing National Grid infrastructure. According to Aura Power, it will continue to work with National Grid to bring forward the project’s connection date through its ongoing electricity network reforms.Only BESS projects that have been granted ‘protected’ connections will connect to the UK electricity grid before 2035. A similar project, Zenobē’s transmission scale 200MW/800MWh Coalburn BESSwill connect in 2028, after it reaches…
What replaced the cheap REDD credit on the boardroom slide deck, and why procurement is leading the rewrite. Three years ago, a corporate slide showing a portfolio of cheap REDD+ credits could carry a board meeting. The number was big, the price was low, and the press release wrote itself. Today, that same slide gets sent back with questions. The questions are uncomfortable, the answers are unclear, and your general counsel is suddenly in the room. Conventional carbon offsets are not dead. The voluntary carbon market retired 202 million tonnes in 2025, and the Morgan Stanley Institute for Sustainable Investing…