The New Jersey Board of Public Utilities (BPU) has approved an extension to PSE&G’s Solar 4 All program. The approval authorizes PSE&G to invest up to $80 million over the next three years to build an additional 33 MWdc of solar farms on landfills and brownfields in PSE&G’s electric service territory.Read More

Empower Energies and WGL Energy Systems, which operates distributed generation systems in 19 states and the District of Columbia, have launched a Distributed Generation Fund for PV solar projects, together with a leading global strategic tax equity investor. With a two-year funding commitment, Empower and WGL Energy Systems plan to originate,Read More

Open Energy, a provider of debt financing solutions for commercial solar projects, has announced the closing of a loan totaling $1.6 million to an affiliate of EnterSolar, a provider of solar photovoltaic solutions to the commercial marketplace. The loan provides project financing for an offsite, ground mount solar installation thatRead More

One of the largest developers of utility scale solar farm projects in the United States, Innovative Solar Systems LLC, is seeking to raise capital to expand operations. ISS has a portfolio of projects that total over 2 GW and has plans to increase its portfolio to over 5 GW by 2018.Read More

Solar Frontier, a CIS solar energy solutions provider, reports that its sold a 15-MW PV solar project to Southern Power and Turner Renewable Energy. Southern Power is a subsidiary of Southern Co., a national leader in providing clean, safe, reliable and affordable energy, and Turner Renewable Energy is an investorRead More

ClearGrid Energy, a community and utility-scale solar developer, is partnering with Citizens Energy Corp., a major solar power developer in Massachusetts, to find sites for solar installations across Massachusetts. ClearGrid finds solar sites by using a proprietary algorithm-driven site acquisition engine and is currently raising a round of investment toRead More

Officials from Consumers Energy and Grand Valley State University celebrated their collaboration to expand renewable energy in Michigan, breaking ground on a new, 17-acre community solar project. “We thank Grand Valley State University for helping us take a Michigan-first approach to a sustainable future for our state,” said Dan Malone,Read More

Skylar Resources L.P. acquired 100 percent interest in the option rights to develop the 180-MW Townsite PV project that KOWEPO Americas developed in Boulder City, Nev. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. Located 30 miles southeast of Las Vegas, the Townsite project is shovel-ready, fully permitted and ITC eligible. The projectRead More

GeoCF, the Austin, TX-based software company specializing in geospatial software solutions, introduced Smart Power Maps, a comprehensive software platform for utility-scale solar project evaluation and development. Smart Power Maps gives solar developers, utilities and investors the ability to bring large-scale solar projects to market faster with lower cost of capital. GeoCFRead More

The solar industry is drawing interest across the United States. The Obama administration is trying to push solar more and more, and Google announced its interest in solar planning. What’s bigger than those two things? But turning interest and curiosity into a solar install still brings a lot of unknowns. SolyMoly, theRead More