The AES Corporation (NYSE: AES) announced today the signing of Power Purchase Agreements (PPAs) with Microsoft to provide renewable energy to the MISO power grid, in support of Microsoft’s operations in the Midwest. The three agreements include two solar projects nearing completion in Michigan and Missouri, expected to come online in the first half of 2025, in addition to a third solar project in Illinois.

The AES Corporation, in collaboration with Camus, today released their joint EV Tipping Point Study. The study identifies the EV adoption level where the benefits of EV visibility and managed charging exceed the costs. The study found that EV monitoring and grid-optimized managed charging could defer $75 million in capital expenditures for an average of 8.5 years.

Today, Motor launched EV Navigator, a 24/7 concierge service that eases the EV ownership journey in New York and New Jersey. By partnering with auto dealerships, EV Navigator provides customers with the confidence they need to make the switch to an electric vehicle.

The AES Corporation’s (NYSE: AES) US renewable energy business announced today that it will host a ribbon-cutting event Tuesday, June 18, in Tunica County, Mississippi, to celebrate the completion of the first utility-scale wind generation facility in the state, AES’ Delta Wind project. Attendees will include state representatives, Tunica County leadership and project stakeholders, including Amazon, the purchaser of energy from the Delta Wind facility.

The AES Corporation announced today a collaboration to strengthen their commitment to social impact and clean energy deployment through an impact investment of $1.5 million that benefits community partners in and around Kern County, California. The commencement of operations at its Raceway solar-plus-storage project will expand AES' renewables generation footprint in the County, and the funds will support environmental justice and community organizations in the region. Microsoft will purchase the energy generated by the 125 MW solar plus 80 MW battery energy storage facility, adding to a substantial portfolio of long-term agreements with AES.

The AES Corporation (NYSE: AES) and LineVision, Inc., announced today they have published a case study related to the ongoing demonstration project from the largest single deployment of Dynamic Line Ratings (DLR) in the United States. This milestone deployment, announced last year, represents a major step forward in assessing the potential of Grid-Enhancing Technologies (GETs) to increase transmission capacity and integrate renewable power generation on the grid.

AES Hawaiʻi celebrated the launch of its West O‘ahu solar-plus-storage project in Kapolei – the company’s first facility to combine solar generation and battery energy storage on O‘ahu. The launch was commemorated with a blessing ceremony at the project site and reception at the nearby University of Hawai‘i-West O‘ahu campus.

The AES Corporation’s US clean energy business announced today that it is expanding its footprint in Houston by increasing its office space at its GreenStreet Tower office in downtown Houston. The expansion of AES’ Houston office is a strategic move by the company aimed at taking advantage of the Greater Houston area’s talent and resources in the energy sector. 

AES is committed to accelerating the transition to a cleaner energy future. We believe the development of a strong clean hydrogen market is critical to reach our collective decarbonization goals, particularly for hard to abate activities like heavy duty mobility and industrial processes. As a leading global energy company, we have been developing electrolytic green hydrogen projects powered by renewables to meet this critical need.

AES has been a leader providing customers with innovative, tailored energy solutions – including 24/7 carbon free energy and other renewable load following solutions – that meet their specific needs. We bring this same mindset to our green hydrogen initiatives and have been developing green hydrogen projects that can meet the strictest requirements of our customers. AES’ $4 billion joint venture project with Air Products in North Texas will meet the green hydrogen criteria laid out in the proposed 45v guidelines.

The Inflation Reduction Act has created the opportunity for the largest build out of infrastructure in the past 50 years and sets the stage for the energy transition to a low carbon economy. We look forward to reviewing the guidance on the 45V hydrogen tax credit in more detail and working with our stakeholders to build the market. We remain committed to developing our hydrogen projects and working with our customers to produce green hydrogen that meets their requirements and helps them achieve their decarbonization goals.

The AES Corporation today named the winners of its 2023 Energy Innovation Challenge. Graduate students from the University of Colorado Boulder – Thomas Hill, Tatiana Huet de Bacellar, Patrick Fegan, Emily Cummins and Andrew Bayliss – won the top prize for their proposal to revitalize the existing steam turbine infrastructure at the Zuni Power Plant in Denver. 

The AES Corporation today announced that the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority (NYSERDA) has awarded the Company 1.2 GW of wind and solar projects across New York state under a large-scale renewables RFP. The projects will have statewide economic impact and will help support New York’s renewable energy goals.

The AES Corporation was named to Fast Company’s 2023 list of Best Workplaces for Innovators for a second year in a row, securing spot #14 and ranking alongside other major global corporations like Adobe, Genentech, and IBM. The Fast Company list recognizes AES for its APEX program, which nurtures talent and encourages employees to contribute new, cutting-edge ideas that can lead to clean energy innovation, the adoption of new technologies, and business growth.

The AES Corporation’s US clean energy business announced that it has increased its three-year renewable energy construction warehouse credit facility by $800 million to $2.5 billion to support the company’s build-out of clean energy projects. AES also announced that it has successfully closed $246.5 million of senior secured private placement notes for its US-based clean energy business, bringing the financing total to more than $2.7 billion.

AES Hawaiʻi today celebrated the Waikoloa Solar + Storage project, the largest renewable energy project on Hawai’i Island, with a blessing ceremony featuring Governor Josh Green, M.D., and attended by state and county lawmakers, officials from Hawaiian Electric, and business and community leaders.

The AES Corporation (NYSE: AES) has signed a Recycling Services Agreement with SOLARCYCLE, a tech-driven recycling services company, and launched a pilot program to assess construction breakage and end-of-life solar panel waste across the company’s portfolio. Under the agreement, AES can send damaged or retired solar panels to SOLARCYCLE’s advanced, high-recovery recycling facility in Odessa, Texas to be responsibly recycled and repurposed.

“Organizations that signed contracts to receive clean power in 2022 partnered with at least 135 different power project developers. Virginia-based AES Corporation topped the list of sellers in 2022 with 2.8GW of new PPA’s disclosed as signed in the year. Engie (1.6GW) and Acciona (1.1GW) followed. All offered customized contracts intended to match customers’ energy demand profiles.”

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Andrés Gluski said during the renewable energy development company’s first quarter earnings call last week, “Renewables are more competitive today than ever. And in almost all cases I can say that the energy from renewables is the cheapest energy.”

Working with existing producers like AES is a time- and cost-efficient way to transition to renewable energy. As with other global trends, like remote work, tech companies are in a unique position to dictate how corporations work with renewable energy suppliers in the energy transition. And that could be a boon for facilitators and producers like AES.

The capacity will be used to support Microsoft’s data centers in California and builds on an earlier supply agreement between the two companies in Virginia.

Chilean power producer and distributor AES Chile announced it has put into operation the 110-MW Los Olmos wind farm, its first self-built wind farm in the South American country.

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Elemental changes are underway in how we replace fossil fuels and decarbonize the economy, and companies such as Twelve, BlocPower, AES, and Heliogen are leading the way.

Virginia-based AES details its carbon reduction target during the company’s quarterly and annual earnings report this morning. Perhaps the most dramatic element of the AES earnings report is the move toward a significantly greater portion of energy storage, wind and solar in its future generation mix.

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