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Comcast announced an agreement to purchase 70 megawatts (MW) of renewable solar electricity for nearly half of its Comcast Cable and NBCUniversal operations across New England. The project will provide carbon-free electricity to Comcast’s Western New England Region headquarters in Berlin, NBC Sports in Stamford, and NBC CT in West Hartford.

Salesforce announced the purchase of 280,000 megawatt hours (MWh) of renewable energy certificates (RECs) from small, distributed energy projects over the next eight years to accelerate clean electricity access in emerging markets.

We now know who won the Super Bowl - and we also know that both Super Bowl contenders have home stadiums that are powered by the sun. This report from the Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA) shows how major league sports venues across the U.S.

The City of Alton, Illinois will develop and install a 5-megawatt AC (MWAC)/7-megawatt DC (MWDC) solar array.

Toyota West Virginia recently installed five SmartFlower solar arrays to help power the facility’s employee services buildings, which are home to popular destinations like the uniform store, footwear store, credit union, clinic, and pharmacy.

Gov. John Bel Edwards’ Climate Initiatives Task Force marked the first year of progress toward the goals of Louisiana’s Climate Action Plan .

ComEd announced the opening of the 75th community solar development in its service territory, a 2.495 megawatt (MW) Speedway Solar project 10 miles south of Joliet, Ill.

Digital Realty, a provider of cloud- and carrier-neutral data center, colocation, and interconnection solutions, signed a power purchase agreement (PPA) for a 116 megawatts (MW) share of a new 154 MW ground-mounted solar photovoltaic project in Germany.

Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc., a life sciences company, announced it will power all of the company’s current U.S. sites with 100% electricity by 2026.