Category: In the News
PV Tech: Summit Ridge Energy, Osaka Gas expand solar PV partnership with 100MW pipeline in Virginia
A rooftop community solar project from Summit Ridge in Maryland. Image: Summit Ridge Energy US community solar owner-operator Summit Ridge Energy (SRE) and Japanese energy firm Osaka Gas USA (OGUSA) have expanded their partnership to construct, own and operate more than 100MW of solar PV in Virginia, the US. The joint venture represents a nine-figure […]
Reuters: FEATURE-US cities risk losing out on clean-energy incentives, jobs
WASHINGTON, June 13 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – In a church on Chicago’s West Side near where he grew up, Marques Jones Jr. is hoping to earn more money and help his family by learning how to install and maintain the solar panels he now sees everywhere he goes. Jones is midway through an inaugural 11-week […]
Chicago Sun Times: Sky’s the limit for West Side training of solar panel technicians
Rob Wallace, chief executive of Ecademy, instructs Traveli Ratcliff on cutting angles while learning how to install solar panels Monday. A new venture hopes to train 10,000 graduates over the next decade in solar panel installation. With the involvement of businesses and organizations, and maybe a boost from providence, a venture to train people in […]
The Associated Press: Classes Begin at New Green Job Training Center in Chicago
Chicago’s new Sustainability Hub will train and employ 10,000+ local Illinois residents for solar careers CHICAGO, May 2, 2023 /PRNewswire/ — The Sustainability Hub, a new Chicago job training center jointly developed by Power52’s Ecademy and 548 Enterprise (548), has proudly welcomed the first twenty trainees to its clean energy job training program. With funding […]
Canary Media: A huge community solar order is latest in US clean manufacturing boom
Summit Ridge Energy’s 2.5-megawatt Speedway community solar project south of Joliet, Illinois (Business Wire) A record-setting supply agreement between solar hardware builder Qcells and project developer Summit Ridge Energy was announced last week, indicating that the incentives in the Inflation Reduction Act are already driving the deployment of domestically sourced renewable energy infrastructure. The 1.2-gigawatt […]
Reuters: U.S. VP Harris takes Biden’s jobs message to Marjorie Taylor Greene’s district
U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris speaks, during the Munich Security Conference (MSC) in Munich, Germany February 18, 2023. DALTON, Georgia, April 6 (Reuters) – U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris on Thursday took the Biden administration’s jobs agenda to a right-wing Georgia congressional district represented by Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene, an avid supporter of former President […]