Solar Builder readers submitted their coolest, most innovative and noteworthy solar projects of the last 12 months, and after combing through another record amount of submissions, we’ve narrowed the field to these 2020 Project of the Year nominees! This year the field is divided into FIVE categories: Residential (single-family, multi-family)Read More

The state of New York has plans to hit a 100 percent clean electric grid by 2040, with the larger goal of eventual economy-wide carbon-neutrality. New York’s “Green New Deal” will require a multitude of industry and academic research initiatives aimed at making that effort a tangible reality. The NewRead More

Borrego Solar Systems Inc., a leading developer, designer, installer, and operator of commercial solar and energy storage systems, hit the top spot for U.S. commercial solar companies in Q4 2018 based on recently published data in the Wood Mackenzie Q1 2019 PV Leaderboard. “Having the largest market share nationally inRead More

Massachusetts’ largest community solar + storage farm has completed construction and is nearing subscriber completion. The 7.1-MW Happy Hollow Community Solar + Storage Farm is built on a gravel pit in Winchendon, Mass., and includes a 3.3-MW energy storage system. The project is owned by SunRaise Investments, developed and constructedRead More

SunRaise Investments, LLC and Borrego Solar Systems Inc. announced the completion of two of the first solar projects under the new Solar Massachusetts Renewable Target (SMART) program. The larger of the two projects is a 7.1 megawatt (MW) array located on a gravel pit in Winchendon, Mass. The project isRead More

Established in 1980, Borrego Solar Systems Inc. says it experienced its best year ever in 2016 — hitting a 76 percent increase in total MW installed from 2015. The company achieved a 100 percent increase in profits, representing its eighth consecutive year of profitable growth. Borrego Solar was once againRead More

Financier Greenwood Energy and installer Borrego Solar Systems completed a 2.9-MW remote-net-metered solar array for Ithaca College. Borrego Solar co-developed, designed and built the array while Greenwood Energy will own and operate it. Located approximately 40 miles from campus on 15 acres of land in the Ontario County Town of Seneca,Read More

Borrego Solar Systems Inc., a large-scale solar development, design, financing, construction and O&M company, is now hopping into energy storage solutions with the launch of a new division. This marks the company’s first ever formal expansion into energy services beyond solar photovoltaics. The company will be offering both standalone energy storageRead More

Pacific Ethanol 5-MW System – largest net-meter project in PG&E territory, largest PACE transaction Pacific Ethanol, a leading producer and marketer of low-carbon renewable fuels in the United States, is installing a 5 MW solar PV system designed and built by Borrego Solar Systems at its Madera, Calif., plant. ThroughRead More

  Syncarpha Capital LLC, Borrego Solar Systems Inc., and Renewable Energy Massachusetts LLC (REM) completed a 6-MW solar array located on the former Palmer Metropolitan Airfield in Palmer, Mass. The Palmer Airfield project is unique in that it is both the first and, at 6 MW, the largest Department of EnergyRead More