Finance

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.

The financial services giant plans to source renewables for 100% of its global energy needs by 2020, and to facilitate $200 billion in clean financing through 2025 – the largest commitment by any global financial institution to date.

The bankrupt saltwater battery company has a new owner, following a bankruptcy sale, and has re-started operations.

More than a year after the world’s largest renewable energy developer went under, Judge Stuart Bernstein has approved a deal that will allow it to emerge from bankruptcy proceedings over the objections of shareholders and two investors.

“This agreement accelerates our mission to put as much solar in the ground as soon as possible”

Mercom Capital’s latest report shows a jump in battery funding during Q2 2017, largely on the strength of one funding round.

The influx of cash is the latest progress for the nation’s largest PACE provider, which expanded to more communities in Missouri last week.