Third-party solar proves less popular in installer survey
The latest data from online solar marketplace provider EnergySage echoes other national trends in finding that installers are increasingly moving back to cash purchases, especially at smaller companies.
DOE Secretary Moniz’s exit memo extolls solar progress
In the past eight years under President Obama, the solar industry has advanced from a tiny niche market to the country’s largest energy employer – though more work remains to be done.
Vivint to provide PV system owners with smart home tools
The company’s solar customers will have the option to receive a free integrated energy management system
Sungevity loses acquisition partner, access to public capital
Easterly Acquisition Corp., who was supposed to provide Sungevity access to public-market funds, has cancelled the proposed acquisition it announced in June.
Over 128,000 California homes go solar in 2016
New data from state California Solar Initiative (CSI) program Go Solar California reports that over the first 10 months of 2016, a total of 128,485 Californian families went solar, according to California Citisuns, the solar consumer advocacy based in Sacramento. The total suggests a 2016 total of over 154,000 new solar homes in the state.
SEIA to create finance advisory council
The national trade group will work with the Solar Energy Finance Association to improve access to low-cost financing.
Off Grid Electric secures $7.5 million in debt financing
The California-based provider of off-grid solar power in Africa rounded off an excellent 2016 for the company with a further $7.5 million in debt financing and a partnership with Rwanda’s national utility company, off the back of further expansion plans across Africa.
The solar coaster: pv magazine USA’s 2016 year in review
With massive market growth, the bankruptcy of SunEdison and the election of a pro-coal climate denier as president, 2016 really was the best and the worst of times.
New Jersey solar market slows down in H2 2016
After installing 198 MW in the first six months of the year, New Jersey’s solar market appears to have declined substantially in the final months of 2016.
MIT report questions value of distributed solar
The Utility of the Future report decries poor state-level rate-making, mythical cross-subsidies by non-solar customers, and economies of scale as reasons that adding more distributed PV to utilities’ portfolios make little long-term economic sense.
