Clearway Energy Group announces the completion of its first Illinois community solar farm, energizing the 3 MWdc Southland Solar Farm, just outside of Kankakee, and will activate eight more community solar farms in the coming months. Each of Clearway’s Illinois solar farms is subscribed to roughly 350 residential customers, withRead More

CS Energy and Doosan GridTech have been chosen to design, build and operate a community solar + storage system in New England. This 5.1 MW-PV/2.5 MW hybrid power system would be among the first DC-coupled configurations installed under the Massachusetts SMART and Clean Peak Standard (CPS) program. CS Energy was namedRead More

Community solar is a growing, important segment of the solar industry that still struggles at efficiently gathering said communities. At last count by NREL, community solar projects are located in 39 states, and 20 states have policies that support it. That’s all pretty good! But about 74 percent of theRead More

OYA Solar announced that Rensselaer County has subscribed for 7.4 MWdc of clean energy from OYA’s community solar projects in New York State. The county is the first major public sector entity in New York to subscribe to OYA’s community solar portfolio and is expected to save approximately $3 millionRead More

The New York town of Chatham selected Astral Power for its upcoming Solarize Campaign. The Chatham Climate Smart Community task force spent several months developing a plan for a Community Solar outreach campaign and “we couldn’t be more proud to be chosen,” says Cara Humphrey, VP of Sales & StrategyRead More

Renewable energy provider Neighborhood Power has partnered with Mana Monitoring to deliver the cost-saving and environmental advantages of solar energy to Oregonians en masse from multiple community solar farms in the state. The project consists of four 2.5-MW community solar farms, three of which are now fully operational, within theRead More

Nautilus Solar Energy, announced the acquisition of eight community solar projects in Maine totaling 47.2 megawatts direct current from ISM Solar Development.  Construction of the projects, located in Cumberland, Knox, Oxford and York counties, is expected to begin in the third quarter of 2021. Upon completion, these projects will provideRead More

Alliant Energy’s 1-MW community solar project in Fond du Lac, Wis., announced in December, found its anchor tenant this week in Michels Corp., which is committing to 30% of the project’s solar blocks. The diversified energy and infrastructure contractor has supported the project from the initial stages and is leasing theRead More

Nexamp has emerged as the largest owner-operator of community solar assets across the sector’s fastest growing markets, and a financing deal announced today hammers this home: Nexamp Inc. closed a $440 million senior secured credit facility for a 380-MW portfolio of solar and energy storage assets, the largest debt financing ofRead More

New York solar developer Source Renewables announced plans to develop two community solar projects on the Marilla Street Landfill in South Buffalo. Source Renewables has submitted an application for rezoning with the City of Buffalo to rezone the Marilla Street Landfill property to a distributed generation solar farm, which would consist ofRead More