RBI Solar integrates, literally and figuratively, SolarBOS
Gibraltar Industries, owner of solar racking company RBI Solar, of Cincinnati, OH has acquired balance of system designer SolarBOS, of California.
Insuring the sunrise with Wall Street finance
kWh Analytics and Swiss Re have structured a deal with GCL New Energy and PNC Bank for 50 MW of solar projects financed using the Solar Revenue Put to guarantee 95% of solar generation.
Colorado trades away coal and gas for solar+wind+storage
The Colorado PUC has voted to provide initial approval of a plan to retire 660 MW of coal early and not build any new gas, instead constructing over 1 GW of wind, 700 MW of solar and 275 MW / 1.0 GWh of energy storage.
Texas is going green: 86% of future capacity solar or wind, zero coal
ERCOT’s pipeline of projects has ballooned to almost 80 GW. 12 GW of this is gas and the rest is wind and solar power plants, as well as 522 MW of energy storage.
OhmConnect’s distributed demand response network adds automated Nest management
OhmConnect has joined Googles “Work with Nest” program to increase automation in its home energy management program. Users in OhmConnect’s select marketplaces actually earn a share of the demand response services.
$1.2 billion clean energy fund closes, targets utility scale in the USA
Capital Dynamics announced the final close on its most recent clean energy fund, totaling $1.2 billion in commitments. The company is now managing 2.3 GW of solar installations.
Michigan municipality going 100% renewable
The Traverse City Light and Power Company has approved a plan to move to 100% renewable energy by 2040. The interim plan inlcudes a goal of 15% renewable by 2021, and 40% by 2025.
Arcadia Power raises $25 million to extend community solar and energy platform
The company looks to add engineers and data scientists to expand its renter-focused platform offering electricity discounts via access to community wind and solar power installations.
We can afford to be good, we have the luxury to dictate
8minutenergy’s focus on deep component research, and its application at scale, has given the company a competitive advantage to become the country’s largest independent solar power (and energy storage) developer.
Fossil interests, utilities spend almost 10x more than renewables industries on lobbying
Drexel University researchers have shown that $2 billion was spent lobbying Congress on climate-related issues between 2000-2016. Electricity utilities, fossil fuel producers and transportation groups dominate the sources of money put into this process.
