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southeast US solar financing Five factors that will impact Southeast solar financing in 2020
Clayton Summers
January 30, 2020
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News solar report card
IREC grades all state community solar programs and only gives two A’s
January 29, 2020
News Arlington County, Virginia. USA.
Amazon HQ2, Arlington County to both purchase power from this solar site in Virginia
January 29, 2020
News Encore renewable energy
Encore Renewable Energy brings on former SolarEdge application engineer as new engineering manager
January 29, 2020
News expansion
Stem Partner Program expands via BayWa r.e., Soligent partnerships to broaden C&I storage market
January 29, 2020
News perovskite solar cell
Perovskite solar modules survive three lifetime tests for first time,...

Solliance partners TNO, imec and the Eindhoven University of Technology, demonstrated encapsulated perovskite solar modules fabricated using...

January 29, 2020
Projects Solar training
McCarthy to hire 300+ workers to build Michigan’s largest solar...

McCarthy Building Companies Inc. says it plans to hire more than 200 craft workers and 100 general laborers for Ranger Power’s Assembl...

January 28, 2020
News APS Arizona utility
Arizona Public Services sets aggressive near-term targets on way to...

Last week, Arizona Public Service Co. announced a goal to deliver 100 percent clean, carbon-free electricity to customers by 2050. What&rsqu...

January 28, 2020
Policy Solar Power Rocks Report
Takeaways from the 2020 State Solar Power Rankings Report (where...

Solar Power Rocks (SPR) is one of our favorite sites — a comprehensive resource of state and national solar policy, incentives and fin...

January 28, 2020
Financing CleanCapital
CleanCapital caps off its record year with a seven-project, 16-MW...

CleanCapital announced today its final acquisition of 2019, a 16.5 megawatt portfolio consisting of seven operating solar projects. CleanCap...

January 27, 2020
News Spencer community solar farms
CIT Group leads on financing this New York community solar...

CIT Group’s Power and Energy unit served as sole lead arranger on a $42.8 million in debt financing to support NY Solar Farms, a 70-me...

January 27, 2020
News katrina reconstruction solar home
New Orleans promotes free solar evaluations as part of Solar...

New Orleans Mayor LaToya Cantrell is breaking from Louisiana’s poor solar policy grade with a new Solar for All NOLA program. Solar fo...

January 27, 2020
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SunStreet, Lennar and NAHB to demo a solar home at...

SunStreet Energy Group, the only solar power company designed for homebuilders by a homebuilder, is teaming up with National Association of ...

January 27, 2020
News Trina solar 210 module
Trina Solar has 210-mm silicon wafer, 500-W solar panels ready...

Trina Solar Co. says its first large-size module with a 210 mm silicon wafer developed by the company, aptly named the 210 module, is now ro...

January 27, 2020
News headline solar install
Business is booming at Illinois’ Headline Solar, and they are...

Headline Solar is one of Illinois’ fastest growing solar company, hitting $5.2 million in revenue after just nine months of operation....

January 27, 2020
News SolaRack
Sunnova adds racking manufacturer SolaRack to its approved vendor list

SolaRack, an American solar racking manufacturer, today announced it has been added to the approved vendor list of privately held U.S. resid...

January 27, 2020
News two shovels in the sand
GEM Energy constructing solar array at Ohio’s Penta Career Center...

Construction begins this spring in Perrysburg, Ohio, on a $2 million solar array that will provide nearly 60 percent of the electricity need...

January 27, 2020
Residential Solar lumin smart home
Hello Lumin: Get to know this nifty smart circuit, energy...

PV systems are 25-year assets, and we probably don’t think enough about how long that is and what it means for a solar installation bu...

January 27, 2020
News solar farm
Delaware Electric Cooperative doubles size of the Bruce A. Henry...

Delaware Electric Cooperative and Constellation have completed work to nearly double the size of the Co-op’s Bruce A. Henry Solar Farm...

January 23, 2020
Financing Spruce finance-001
Spruce Finance adds a 31-MW portfolio of residential solar assets

Spruce Finance, a large private owner and operator of residential solar assets, has completed its most significant solar portfolio acquisiti...

January 23, 2020