Not ready to settle for second place among corporate renewable offtakers, Amazon announced the company’s 65th and 66th renewable energy projects today. Of those two, Amazon’s newest renewable energy project in the U.S. will be located in Pittsylvania County, Virginia, and will be the seventh Amazon Solar Farm in theRead More

CleanCapital just announced its largest acquisition to date, a 75.2 MW solar portfolio made up of 15 operating solar projects in New Jersey. This is the fourth in a series of acquisitions made through CleanCapital’s $250 million investment vehicle with CarVal Investors. CleanCapital now owns and operates 180 MW ofRead More

GE Solar and BlackRock rocked the renewable energy sector with the formation of a new business, Distributed Solar Development, a GE Renewable Energy Venture (DSD). The company will be 80 percent owned by a fund managed by BlackRock Real Assets and 20 percent owned by GE Renewable Energy and willRead More

Capital Dynamics, an independent global private asset management firm, announced that its Clean Energy Infrastructure (CEI) business and Sol Systems, one of the most experienced solar finance and development platforms in the United States, have formed a joint venture: Sol Customer Solutions. Sol Customer Solutions is a partnership focused onRead More

The solar + storage value proposition is increasingly a no-brainer for commercial buildings in states out West. Demand charges in California have increased by as much as 64% since 2014, and these charges can represent more than 50% of a company’s monthly energy bill. What’s more, California experienced more outagesRead More

Spray Polyurethane Foam (SPF) and PV systems are increasingly paired together as a joint solution for energy savings. With the continued push toward sustainability and growing movements such as zero net energy (ZNE) construction, SPF and PV systems combine to provide a logical solution to generate renewable energy while conservingRead More

West Valley-Mission Community College District (WVMCCD) recently selected SunPower to deploy a fully integrated solar and storage project across its West Valley and Mission College campuses in the heart of California’s Silicon Valley. SunPower Helix Carport systems installed will total 5.4 megawatts, allowing the District to offset approximately 75 percentRead More

Ameresco broke ground last week on a solar project at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center’s Wallops Flight Facility in Wallops Island, Virginia. The savings-funded solar renewable energy project will help NASA WFF to meet its ambitious energy-savings and sustainability goals. Designed to be completed in two phases, the project willRead More

Green Street Power Partners, LLC (GSPP) closed on tax equity investment and long-term debt financing for a 17.5 megawatt community solar portfolio in Minnesota. The portfolio will consist of commercial and industrial customers and represents GSPP’s initial foray into the Minnesota market. GSPP will own and operate the solar assetsRead More

The 2019 Report Card for California Infrastructure showed that the Energy sector received the lowest rank of all sectors, scoring a D- from the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE). Investor Owned Utilities (IOU’s), like Southern California Edison, Pacific Gas & Electric, and San Diego Gas & Electric are taskedRead More