Sonoma’s SOMO village community expands to 3 MW/1MW solar + storage
SOMO Village, a $1 billion mixed-use community in Rohnert Park, CA., is adding another 2,500 solar panels plus storage to reach a new total of 3.1 MW of PV; this third PV expansion is being supplied by REC Solar, along with an initial 1 MW of storage supplied by Green Charge.
Baptists will spread the solar gospel
Through a partnership with Geostellar and Together, the Progressive National Baptist Convention will offer community solar programs to communities where their churches are
EnergySage begins offering loan products directly
While installers on the company’s online solar marketplace had previously offered loans, EnergySage will now being offering loans directly from three providers.
sPower closes on $434 million in financing for California solar projects
The text equity and debt will support 183 MW-DC of solar in Kern County
NextEra commissions 485 MW of solar in California
NextEra has put online the Blythe and McCoy Solar Energy Centers, some of the last mega-projects in the California desert.
NRG Yield cautiously acquires more solar
The yieldco of energy giant NRG reported strong results for Q3, and expects to acquire former SunEdison assets NRG snatched up in a fire sale.
Mercedes-Benz enters the U.S. energy storage market
Move over Elon. Mercedes-Benz Energy Americas has entered the wide-open U.S. EV+storage — or just storage — market, cherry-picking former sonnen USA CEO Boris von Bormann to lead the charge.
Community choice aggregator signs PPA with First Solar for 40 MW-AC
The contract with MCE is the first time that First Solar has sold power to a community choice aggregator.
Bankruptcy court approves GCL purchase of SunEdison FBR polysilicon tech
The acquisition narrows the number of companies that are developing FBR, and further consolidates the transfer of this technology to Chinese companies.
SolarCity signs 300,000 customer, but profitability questions remain
The milestone, representing a major step forward for a company in the midst of its complicated acquisition by Tesla, highlights the challenges of public companies that depend on long-term planning.
