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Intersect Power Secures $837 Million in Project Financing to Build 1 GWh of Battery Energy Storage Systems (BESS) in Texas
HOUSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jul 17, 2024-- Intersect Power, LLC, (“Intersect Power” or “Intersect”), announced today the closing of two separate transactions representing an aggregate of $837 million of financing commitments for the construction and operation of three standalone Battery Energy Storage Systems (BESS) in Texas. The transactions cover portfolio-level construction debt, tax equity, and term debt financing with industry-leading partners. This press release features multimedia. View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20240717196955/en/ Active construction at the Lumina II battery energy storage system (BESS) project in Scurry County, Texas. When construction is complete, the site will have 86 Megapacks, Tesla’s battery energy storage system, that will provide 320 MWh of battery storage with a two-hour duration. (Photo: Business Wire)
Avangrid begins producing power from Texas solar farm
Avangrid recently began to produce power from the True North solar project located in Falls County, Texas The facility, near Waco, is its first project in Texas and will become the largest solar power project ... Read More » The post Avangrid begins producing power from Texas solar farm appeared first on Daily Energy Insider.
Epic Deal With Walmart Might Bring This Pizza To Missouri
Last Thursday, Mr. Gatti's Pizza announced a partnership with Walmart to bring Mr. Gatti's Pizza to 92 Walmart stores in Texas, Oklahoma, Louisiana, and Kentucky. Twelve locations will open in Walmart Stores this year in North Texas and Southern Oklahoma, according to a press release from Mr. Gatti's. So, could Missouri see Mr. Gatti's at Walmart?
Tracking some nice changes to the forecast!
Cooler weather and rain are usually not things we get to talk about much during July, but that is exactly what we are lucky enough to talk about for the next week to 10 days! A few isolated showers and thunderstorms are possible this evening, but the better rain chances will move in during the early morning hours of Thursday as a cold front moves in. As of now it doesn’t look like all of us will see rain Thursday, but the best coverage of scattered showers and thunderstorms will be during the morning hours. Most of Thursday afternoon will be rain-free, with highs only making it into the low-to-mid 90s.
Become an Instant Millionaire With Any of These 27 Texas Lottery Scratch Offs
Me and a coworker were talking recently about what seven figure money number we'd be comfortable having in our bank account. My answer was $2.5 million. I could buy a house and a good car for my fiancé and me, about $500,000 for those. We could pay for our wedding and have a nice honeymoon, about $50,000 for those. That's my Lindale math working there but I think those numbers are reasonable. Everything else would sit in the bank to take care of everything else.
Texas woman arrested in connection to Arizona fraud case
PHOENIX — A Texas woman was recently arrested in connection with an Arizona fraud case, authorities announced Tuesday. Maria Rivera, 64, was arrested in Carrollton, Texas, in early July on charges of fraud, theft and identity theft, according to the Yavapai County Sheriff’s Office. YSCO began investigating the...
Texas restaurants sue utility CenterPoint over response to Hurricane Beryl
HOUSTON (Reuters) -Restaurants in and around Houston on Monday filed a class action seeking more than $100 million from U.S. power provider CenterPoint Energy, alleging incompetence and negligence in the utility's efforts to restore power quickly following Hurricane Beryl.
90 School Districts in Texas Have Moved to a 4-Day-Week
This is a topic that has been trending for the past year. School districts in Texas moving to four-day-school weeks. KXAN, reports that at least 90 school districts across Texas have now switched to four-day school weeks. This is the state of Texas' effort to prevent teacher turnover!. Other districts...
Texas Standard for July 16, 2024: Department of Energy turned down CenterPoint’s upgrade plans for Houston, report says
CenterPoint Energy is facing growing scrutiny for what the governor says was a failure to prepare for Hurricane Beryl. But a new report says that a year ago, the Department of Energy turned down a CenterPoint plan that could have prevented widespread outages. Here are the stories on Texas Standard...
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