Residential PV

In results for its first full quarter since the failed merger of Vivint Solar and SunEdison, the residential solar installer reports recovery and record low costs.

Vivint Solar says that the loan will allow it to install solar on 8,250 homes in New York.

Today we bring you the first weekly collection of stories from the new pv magazine USA website.

A policy report finds that while utilities are increasingly asking to increase fixed charges, in more than half of recent cases these requests were denied.

The company describes the loan as an alternative to bond securitization for its residential solar projects.

The Supreme Court has ruled that the measure’s description to voters was misleading, effectively upholding a lower court ruling which said that the referendum was unconstitutional.

The largest distributed solar company in the U.S. installed 201 MW in the second quarter, however the company is still lowering its full year guidance.

NV Energy has come out in favor of grandfathering solar customers under the previous net metering rules, two days before the Nevada Supreme Court hears arguments on the legality of a referendum to overturn changes to the policy.

The renewables and energy efficiency financing provider has been chosen as the financing provider for two more cities and a county in the Sunshine State.

National design firm TCA Architects designed a group of net-zero eco-apartments for Houston-based Hanover Company within its new Hanover Olympic apartment building in Los Angeles. These units feature solar power, smart thermostats, iPad accessible monitoring, in-apartment monitoring screens, high efficiency lighting, and smart AC and water systems, along with EV charging facilities.