Finance

With interest rates expected to continue rising, BNEF says that this could be the beginning of more bond activity.

The original VC behind SolarCity talks about what the next challenger to SolarCity will look like. As the third interview in the #Solar100 Thought Leaders series, kWh Analytics Founder Richard Matsui speaks with Founder and Managing Partner of DBL Partners, Nancy Pfund.

SEIA’s C&I Working Group has created and unveiled Version 2.0 of its standard commercial PPA contract, which it hopes will help to ease project development in the sector.

The ruling comes as the German solar manufacturer is restarting following an insolvency process, and Hemlock may have a hard time collecting.

The residential solar company has opened the door to raise the funds through a variety of means including a follow-on offering.

In this guest post for pv magazine, Arbox Renewable Energy President Farid Najafi looks at how software can help boost margins for IPPs under an environment of intensely low PPA prices.

Non-profit CPI says that by removing barriers to direct investment in wind and solar assets, its new vehicle could lower the cost of these projects 15-17%, while attracting $4 trillion from pension funds and insurance companies.

The EV, battery and solar company continues to raise record amounts of cash as it ramps Model 3 production. At the same time, it’s emphasizing profitability from its solar business, which has undergone a significant transformation since the company bought SolarCity.

The high efficiency PV maker has decided not to find a replacement for fellow sponsor First Solar, and instead to get out of the yieldco business.

Richard Matsui, Founder of kWh Analytics, speaks with Varun Sivaram, the Philip D. Reed Fellow for Science and Technology at the Council on Foreign Relations and a professor at Georgetown University.