Clearway Energy Group says construction is now underway on six of its Illinois community solar projects, totaling 18 megawatts of Clearway’s 60 megawatts Illinois community solar portfolio. The projects are part of an 18-project, 54 megawatts portfolio sold to Clearway in 2019 under a master purchase agreement with Cypress Creek Renewables,Read More

Cypress Creek Renewables completed the sale of two Massachusetts community solar projects totaling 6.35 MW to CarVal Investors. The projects, which are located in Bristol and Franklin counties, are community solar projects that Cypress Creek developed under the state’s Solar Massachusetts Renewable Target (SMART) program. In addition to this sale,Read More

The 162-MW Wagyu solar PV project in Brazoria County, Texas, is now delivering power to the grid. Located near Houston, the project is owned by Cubico Sustainable Investments and was developed by Cypress Creek Renewables. Project construction was performed by RES (Renewable Energy Systems). In addition to acting as the originalRead More

Cypress Creek Renewables closed a seven-year, $200 million debt financing for the holding company that owns Cypress Creek’s 1.6 gigawatt portfolio of operating solar energy projects. The facility finances a portfolio comprised of more than 200 solar and storage projects across 13 states. “This new debt facility marks a key milestoneRead More

A team of solar industry veterans (Evan Riley, Dylan Dupre and Michael Kremer) have launched White Pine Renewables, a renewable energy development company focused on long-term power purchase agreements for commercial, industrial and public-sector customers — projects ranging from 1 to 20 MW. White Pine will originate, develop, finance andRead More

A group of leading solar and renewable energy companies and trade organizations have launched an initiative, Renewables Forward, to take action and develop concrete steps to increase workforce diversity and inclusion throughout the industry. Leaders from across the industry have come together to share experiences, evaluate best practices and makeRead More

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

Duke Energy announced several agreements with third-party solar developers and industry organizations to create a better interconnection framework to facilitate more utility-scale solar energy in the Carolinas. Let’s take a look and see what these will do. Agreement No. 1 First, Duke Energy and most of the major solar industryRead More

Nationwide and Sol Systems announced their joint venture, Helios Infrastructure, completed the purchase of four operating Texas solar projects totaling 47 megawatts from Cypress Creek Renewables. A few weeks ago, Nationwide, Sol Systems and Cypress Creek announced the final portfolio sale in a 148 megawatt master purchase agreement of 20Read More

Solar FlexRack is installing a fixed-tilt solar racking system at a 105 MW solar power generation plant in North Carolina. Cypress Creek Renewables developed the project and is providing the engineering, procurement and construction services as well as the ongoing operations and maintenance services. The project is owned by CubicoRead More