February 17, 2021 at 3:32 pm Comments are Disabled
Pine Gate Renewables and the Arbor Day Foundation announce a new partnership to replant trees impacted as a result of project development. Starting in 2021, Pine Gate will plant two trees for every one that is removed from their sites during new project construction. Through its partnership with the ArborRead More
January 20, 2021 at 11:17 am Comments are Disabled
Pine Gate Renewables has closed financing on a new 12-project fund of solar and solar plus storage sites in North Carolina. The projects in the fund will sell power under long-term contracts to Duke Energy Progress, Duke Energy Carolinas and Halifax EMC. Crestmark, a division of MetaBank, provided the constructionRead More
January 13, 2021 at 3:09 pm Comments are Disabled
Consumers Energy, Pine Gate Renewables and Kayne Anderson Capital Advisors, L.P., announced five new solar energy projects in Genesee County and three in Saginaw County are now online and providing clean, renewable electricity for Consumers Energy customers. The eight sites were built and are operated by Pine Gate Renewables andRead More
October 29, 2020 at 8:00 am Comments are Disabled
In large-scale solar, every penny counts, so it helps to stay up to date with every way to achieve better construction efficiencies, cost savings or improved LCOE. Here are some innovations and ideas that caught our eye this month. 1. Standardizing with ClearSky Equipment standardization for portfolio-level purchasing is aRead More
October 12, 2020 at 1:16 pm Comments are Disabled
Equipment standardization for portfolio-level purchasing is a proven strategy to simplify procurement, establish repeatable construction practices, and promote efficient commissioning. While racking, modules, inverters and transformers are common bulk buys, the MV interconnection components are often excluded. A collection of components, and the work product of highly specialized labor, the interconnectionRead More
September 30, 2020 at 8:38 am Comments are Disabled
Pine Gate Renewables and Kayne Anderson Capital Advisors, L.P. announced their first wave of solar energy projects into Michigan. The companies have completed development for 14 new solar farms in eight counties which will be constructed as part of a larger initiative to bring more than 500 megawatts of renewableRead More
September 10, 2020 at 11:08 am Comments are Disabled
Duke Energy announced several agreements with third-party solar developers and industry organizations to create a better interconnection framework to facilitate more utility-scale solar energy in the Carolinas. Let’s take a look and see what these will do. Agreement No. 1 First, Duke Energy and most of the major solar industryRead More
July 14, 2020 at 10:03 am Comments are Disabled
CIT Group Inc. announced that its Power and Energy business served as lead arranger on a $118.5 million financing for the utility-scale Harts Mill Solar project in Edgecombe County, North Carolina. The project is owned by Kayne Anderson Capital Advisors L.P., a leading alternative investment manager, and marks their firstRead More