Pierre-Olivier Perras

Power Sustainable Energy Infrastructure (PSEI) and EDF Renewables North America have closed Phase 1 of a strategic investment whereby PSEI acquired a 50% stake in the Desert Quartzite Solar+Storage Project. 

This investment was executed with Potentia Renewables, PSEI’s integrated developer and operator. The final phase of the investment is expected to close upon the project’s completion and commercial operation.

Desert Quartzite, located in Riverside County, Calif., is currently under construction and is slated to have a 300 MW capacity for solar, combined with a 150 MW, four-hour BESS. 

Electricity generated will be delivered to Clean Power Alliance, the Community Choice Aggregator serving 35 communities in Los Angeles and Ventura Counties, under a 20-year PPA. Construction is expected to be complete by year-end, with long-term operations and maintenance performed by EDF Renewables’ Asset Optimization.

“We are thrilled to be expanding our presence in the California utility-scale market,” says Pierre-Olivier Perras, managing partner at Power Sustainable Energy Infrastructure. 

“The swift and collaborative process was a testament to our mutual commitment to making this partnership a success. It became evident during our due diligence that the EDF Renewables team is top-notch, and we greatly value the professionalism and expertise each department demonstrated.”

This investment is PSEI’s largest to date.

The 9.4 MW solar farm, which includes two co-located solar arrays made up of more than 17,000 solar modules, represents a unique repurposing of acreage that was previously developed as a golf course. (Photo: Nexamp)

Nexamp and TurningPoint Energy (TPE) have completed a 9.4 MW solar farm in Warren, R.I., which includes two co-located solar arrays made up of 17,000 solar modules on acreage previously developed as a golf course. 

TPE developed the project, and Nexamp built, owns and operates it. Construction began in 2022, with power delivered to the grid for the first time last month. Located in the Rhode Island Energy service territory, it is part of Rhode Island’s Virtual Net Metering program, exclusively serving schools, non-profits and municipalities.

“This is our largest solar project in Rhode Island to date, adding to our rapidly growing national solar portfolio and extending our longstanding relationship with TPE as a valued development partner,” says Jenn DeLaney, vice president of Channel Operations at Nexamp. 

“Each project we build, whether we develop it ourselves or work with partners, represents a long-term commitment to the host community and an opportunity to make renewable energy more widely available to all. We are pleased to bring the benefits of solar to important local organizations with this latest project in Warren.”

This solar project is slated to provide energy savings to 15 area non-profit organizations, schools, cities and towns that have signed an energy sales agreement with Nexamp and get their power from Rhode Island Energy. 

Groundbreaking at Rock Cut Solar Project in Rockford, Ill. (Source: GlobeNewswire)

Summit Ridge Energy and Trajectory Energy Partners have broken ground at the Rock Cut Solar project in Rockford, Ill. 

The project, owned and operated by Summit Ridge, is a 6.2 MW community-driven community solar (CDCS) project developed by Trajectory Energy Partners and expected to be operational by the second half of next year.

As a CDCS project, Rock Cut Solar aims to establish a partnership with Rockford and Winnebago County. Part of the project is the Rock Cut Solar Partnership, made up of a team of local community members who were engaged in the development of Rock Cut Solar.  

Included in the partnership are two organizations slated to act as long-term collaborators on the project: Rockford Area Habitat for Humanity and Get Connected 815, both of which address housing and employment issues in Rockford and Winnebago County. Rock Cut Solar will continue to support these two organizations once in operation. 

This collaboration marks the companies’ thirteenth project together aimed at delivering utility savings to Illinois communities. 

“We’re thrilled to break ground on the Rock Cut Solar project,” says Mark Raeder, Summit Ridge Energy principal.  

“It’s a unique project that shows how transformative sustainable energy solutions can be, especially when its community is united in a shared vision and goal. This project is a perfect example of Summit Ridge’s commitment to community-driven solar initiatives, which provide clean energy to communities that could otherwise be left out of the clean energy revolution. Equally important, we’re able to create local jobs and reduce utility costs for residents through projects like these. It’s a win-win for everyone involved.”