Guide provides roadmap to gauge solar’s affect on home prices
SEIA says homeowners (and the installers who love them) should focus on the projected income of the system over its typical lifetime
Global storage market to grow sixfold by 2030, BNEF reports
Global cumulative storage deployment will double six times between 2017 and 2030 to reach 125 GW/305 GWh, with as much as $103 billion pouring into the sector, finds new report by Bloomberg New Energy Finance.
Unintentional snafu could confuse Arizona solar customers
In a landmark deal earlier this year, Arizona Public Service agreed to grandfather solar customers for 20 years. But a recent glitch in the billing system could leave solar customers flummoxed about what their bills will look like next year.
Solar remains largely unscathed as House tax bill passes
Though there are modifications to the hard-won investment tax credit step-down provisions, it appears the bill leaves the solar industry largely alone.
More states use solar plants to protect bumble bee populations
Following dire reports of bee-colony collapses in recent years, at least three new solar sites in Florida and Maryland are trying to provide safe havens for these critical links in the food chain.
Virginia certainly not for small-scale solar lovers
What happens when you set up a solar-promotion commission and it doesn’t do, like, anything to promote solar? Exactly what you’d expect: nothing.
Quebec-based pension fund CDPQ provides Sunrun with $40 million
After providing Canadian rooftop solar specialist Potentia Renewables with $83 million in May, Canada’s second-largest public pension fund has now agreed to finance U.S. solar installer Sunrun with $40 million.
Dutch pension fund invests $384 million in three U.S. projects
The three projects are located in California and Nevada, and are owned by Capital Dynamics.
Avangrid begins to move into solar
The power company has mostly build wind to date, but has announced 300 MW of solar projects.
Hannon Armstrong bets on solar, issues $164 million in green bonds
The investment group will use the bonds to refinance the land leases it holds under 57 solar projects totaling 1.2 GW in capacity.
