It will always be the year that we remember being dominated by the Coronavirus pandemic. Here is a look back at six of the biggest stories in Bradford over 2020, which included a high-profile Royal visit, the rise of a Keighley-born global celebrity and a return of a Bantams legend to the club.
COVID The coronavirus pandemic has dominated Bradfordians lives ever since Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced the first national lockdown on March 23. Bradford has been placed under Tier 3 restrictions since the summer, with more than 600 deaths from the virus in our district. The pandemic has changed our lives but it has also seen communities unite to look out for each other, clapping for Bradford s NHS heroes and fundraising events galore.
Swell Energy is financing the construction of four virtual power plants (VPPs) representing over 200 MWh of distributed energy storage paired with 100 MW of solar photovoltaic capacity in three states approximately 14,000 solar energy generation and storage systems, intended to provide valuable grid services to the utilities and the local grid. To support the deployment of these and other distributed energy projects, and in partnership with a fund managed by the Infrastructure and Power strategy of Ares Management Corporation and Aligned Climate Capital, Swell has created a VPP Financing Vehicle to support up to $450 million of capital investment for its nationwide VPP portfolio.
Residential renewable energy developer Swell is raising $450 million for distributed power projects in three states
Swell Energy, an installer and manager of residential renewable energy, energy efficiency and storage technologies, is raising $450 million to finance the construction of four virtual power plants representing a massive amount of energy storage capacity paired with solar power generation.
It’s a sign of the distributed nature of renewable energy development and a transition from large-scale power generation projects feeding into utility grids at their edge to smaller, point solutions distributed at the actual points of consumption.
The project will pair 200 megawatt hours of distributed energy storage with 100 megawatts of solar photovoltaic capacity, the company said.
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