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Suniva Announces New Facility to Dramatically Increase Solar Cell Manufacturing Capacity in America

LCG, April 15, 2026--Suniva announced yesterday that it has entered agreements to bring a state-of-the-art 4.5 GW solar cell manufacturing facility to Laurens, South Carolina. The new facility, combined with Suniva’s existing facility at its headquarters in metro Atlanta, will bring the company’s total annual domestic solar cell manufacturing capacity to over 5.5 GW.

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U.S. Coal-fired Generating Capacity Retirements in 2025 Are Less Than 20 Percent of Retirements in 2022

LCG, April 13, 2026--The EIA today released an "In-brief Analysis" of U.S. coal-fired generating capacity retirements in 2025. A highlight of the analysis is that, during 2025, the electric power sector retired 2.6 GW of coal-fired generating capacity at four power plants, which is (i) the least since 2010 and (ii) 5.9 GW less than the planned retirement of 8.5 GW at the beginning of 2025.

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Apple Signs Its Largest Wind Project to Date

LCG, April 26, 2017-- Apple announced in its recently released Environmental Responsibility Report that it has signed an agreement to purchase power from the Montague Wind Power Project in Gilliam County, Oregon. The 404-MW wind project is owned by Montague Wind Power Facility LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Avangrid Renewables LLC. Apple will purchase 200 MW of capacity in the wind project, with the renewable energy destined for Apple's Prineville data center.

"To support our Prineville data center, we recently signed a 200-megawatt power purchase agreement for a new Oregon wind farm, the Montague Wind Power Project, set to come online by the end of 2018."

Apple's report also stated that it had executed a power purchase agreement (PPA) for the 56-MW Solar Star Oregon II photovoltaic (PV) project located near Apple's data center. Solar Star Oregon II LLC is a subsidiary of SunPower, which is building the Gala Solar project. The solar project is scheduled to commence operations at the end of this year.
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