Residential PV

The city’s Office of Environment and Sustainability is working to expand rooftop solar access to minority citizens and increase distributed generation equity.

The new financing is expected to help more than 100,000 homeowners afford sustainable energy and home improvement projects.

A solar racking system’s strength is determined in part by the metal racking, but it also depends on the roof’s underlying structure. Rafters and any supporting structures must be strong enough to withstand your region’s maximum wind and snow loads.

Also on the rise: OG&E will double the capacity of its Choctaw Nation solar project, NorthWestern Energy plans to add a 50 MW BESS, Sungrow supplies inverters to an Iowa project, and Sunnova enters two new markets.

Also on the rise: CleanCapital inks a $300 million commitment from Manulife, Power Edison BESS to set sail, and Gen. Grant’s historic New York cottage gets a solar-plus-storage system.

Nine teams from the U.S., Canada, Chile, and the Netherlands competed in a design-build challenge that resulted in innovative solar-based houses being added to home-town neighborhoods.

Also on the rise: Mosaic announces a $1.5 billion loan program for solar and storage, New Jersey levies a fine for damage related to a solar project, and SunPower deleverages its balance sheet.

In this series, we’ll break down the decision-making process into bite-sized pieces so you can navigate the process and feel good about your choices.

High-resolution data let the study group drill down to individual parcels in order to figure out how much land is available for solar in both optimal and preferred sites.

A Senate committee added language that would cut the renewable energy credit as part of an unrelated film tax credit bill.