Duke Energy says it has reached an agreement with leading solar installers, environmental groups and renewable energy advocates that, if approved by regulators, will create long-term stability for the residential solar industry in South Carolina. The deal will provide options for customers while allowing the company to address increasing electric demandRead More

SmartStop Self Storage REIT, Inc. a self-managed and fully-integrated self-storage company with approximately $1.6 billion of self storage assets under management, completed the first solar PV project as part of a broader company-wide initiative to reduce its carbon footprint and become more energy efficient. The project at Mt. Pleasant wasRead More

Pine Gate Renewables, a national utility-scale solar developer, is bringing 13 mid-size solar farm projects to Greenwood County, S.C. The combined capacity from these sites totals 25.5 megawatts (MW), enough energy to power roughly 4,845 homes annually. These projects will add to Pine Gate’s existing 16 projects in the state.Read More

Sunnova Energy International continues to enter new states, announcing Colorado and New Hampshire last week. Sunnova also announced the expansion of its Sunnova SunSafe solar + battery storage system offering into the state of South Carolina, making the Palmetto State the 16th market where Sunnova now offers SunSafe. “We areRead More

South Carolina was a big target for the solar industry in 2019 because of the state’s antiquated energy regulations that devalued solar — stuff like caps on solar leasing and net metering. There was much rejoicing in May 2019 when South Carolina legislators passed the Energy Freedom Act. It eliminatedRead More

The solar industry made South Carolina a priority this year. The state had outdated regulations that were holding back renewable energy demand. In May, state lawmakers passed a bipartisan bill that solved all of these issues. It lifted net metering caps, allowed for solar leases and much more. As partRead More

POWERHOME Solar has installed solar panels for customers in South Carolina since 2016 but is now ready to open its own office in the state. The company plans to hire up to 100 people in this new Columbia, S.C.-area office in the coming months in the areas of sales, installationRead More

South Carolina legislators have passed the Energy Freedom Act, House Bill 3659, which will keep solar energy growing across the state. “The Energy Freedom Act is a big win for all South Carolina energy consumers,” said Lynn Jurich, CEO and co-founder of Sunrun. “Policymakers listened to the people and deliveredRead More

The solar industry has been focused on South Carolina in 2019, and those efforts might now be paying off. The South Carolina House of Representatives unanimously passed The Energy Freedom Act, on a bipartisan vote last week,  which would modernize the state’s energy market, enabling all energy sources to compete onRead More

South Carolina lawmakers approved a measure that will raise the limit on the number of South Carolinians that can invest in solar and earn credit for their excess power. Amendment 9, which was approved as part of House Bill 4950, will raise the net metering cap from its current 2%Read More