Sunrun expanding Denver HQ – Sunrun is moving on up, as the company has announced that it will be relocating to a new, larger headquarters in Denver’s Central Business District. The upgrade will be to a 118,000-square-foot office, capable of providing space for the company’s 650-person Denver workforce. The site that Sunrun is leaving has been home base for the Denver location since 2015, when the company decided to establish a second headquarters. Source: The Denver Post
Lumidyne releases tool for DER integration in grid and city planning – “Lumidyne Consulting LLC announced today the release of a new modeling Software as a Service (SaaS) tool that helps electric distribution utilities, cities and other organizations integrate distributed energy resources (DERs) into their planning processes. The modeling software, named SPIDER™ (Spatial Penetration and Integration of Distributed Energy Resources), is able to: Forecast spatial adoption and grid impacts of solar PV, electric vehicles (EVs) and battery storage, Help grid planners minimize distribution system costs while ensuring system reliability, Help city planners estimate EV charging station infrastructure requirements, Rapidly update forecasts with new data through automated calibration, Analyze different policy, technology or electric rate scenarios, Account for interactions among and uncertainty across DERs.” Source: Lumidyne Consulting LLC
Hawaii home to precious GEM$ – Hawaiian Governor David Ige has formally launched a new on-bill financing option to make residential solar more accessible, the Green Energy Money $aver (GEM$) program. The program has a fixed interest rate of 5.5% over 20 years and applicants are disqualified if they have received a disconnection notice with the past 12 months, as well as having to prove an estimated bill savings of at least 10% post-installation. Source: Utility Dive
Carrie Zalewski Named Illinois Commerce Commission Chair – Commissioner Carrie Zalewski has been promoted within the Illinois Commerce Commission to chair by Governor JB Pritzker. Zalewski previously served on the Illinois Pollution Control Board and the Illinois Department of Transportation, as well as working in private practice as an attorney. Source: Illinois Commerce Commission
This content is protected by copyright and may not be reused. If you want to cooperate with us and would like to reuse some of our content, please contact: editors@pv-magazine.com.
By submitting this form you agree to pv magazine using your data for the purposes of publishing your comment.
Your personal data will only be disclosed or otherwise transmitted to third parties for the purposes of spam filtering or if this is necessary for technical maintenance of the website. Any other transfer to third parties will not take place unless this is justified on the basis of applicable data protection regulations or if pv magazine is legally obliged to do so.
You may revoke this consent at any time with effect for the future, in which case your personal data will be deleted immediately. Otherwise, your data will be deleted if pv magazine has processed your request or the purpose of data storage is fulfilled.
Further information on data privacy can be found in our Data Protection Policy.