Tag: Community solar

July 21, 2022

Pivot Energy has started the construction of 10 new community solar projects in Illinois. The portfolio of projects represents 17.1 MW of capacity through the Illinois Adjustable Block Program across Ameren and Commonwealth Edison utility service territories. The portfolio is expected […]

July 12, 2022

DSD Renewables developed the nine projects for the City of White Plains in Westchester County. The portfolio is expected to generate 8,100 MWh of clean energy annually, tripling the amount of solar energy produced in Westchester County and enough to […]

January 6, 2022

Kansas City-based Evergy said that its Hawthorn power plant would be home to 10 MW of new solar energy capacity, pending regulatory approval. Evergy said it plans to build the solar array on 67 acres near the Hawthorn plant in […]

October 11, 2021

The Biden administration has set a target of powering 5 million American homes with community solar projects by 2025– an ambition that would require 700% growth of current capacity. The National Renewable Energy Laboratory estimates a total of 3,253 MW-AC […]

June 30, 2021

The Mayor of Rockford, Ill., this week joined community solar provider Nexamp and ComEd to launch Give-A-Ray, a new 15-year program to provide solar energy benefits and savings to low and moderate income customers in Rockford and the surrounding area […]

May 10, 2021

Grouping solar projects into larger portfolios is certainly not a new practice. After all, placing smaller projects into larger project groups is often the only way some smaller projects can find financing. It can also save funding organizations money because […]

April 30, 2021

There are 2,600 megawatts of solar power capacity installed in the U.S. today that can be considered community solar, according to the U.S. Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL). That is a little less than 5% of all […]

March 11, 2021

Without doubt, the solar PV industry is one of the most exciting sectors to be working in at the moment. With the International Energy Agency (IEA) reporting a huge 18-fold increase in the amount of installed solar PV capacity between […]

April 23, 2019

Community Solar in New York has a messaging problem. It is confusing, and even some industry professionals have given up in disgust because of aggressive marketing and a lack of clarity. Fortunately, aggressive marketing is not universal among community solar […]

August 22, 2018

Community solar is supposed to make investing in PV easier. But many contracts do exactly the opposite. Common contract terms put customers on the hook for cancellation fees or signup periods stretching into two decades. The lack of flexibility is […]

May 2, 2018

The solar industry weathered a particularly strange 2017, but is poised for global growth. If the right factors come together, solar power could provide 15 percent of the global electricity mix by the 2030s, rather than the business-as-usual rate of […]

March 15, 2018

Should government be involved in commercial projects or should the private sector do all the heavy lifting itself? Maybe the answer is that public/private partnerships are society’s best way forward. Private entities get to make a profit while government makes […]

September 18, 2017

Potential solar customers are certainly window shopping. But in today’s market, interest doesn’t always equate to sales. The latest Solar Marketplace Intel report from EnergySage shows increasing interest in solar from consumers. But the current array of options aren’t always […]

August 11, 2017

The Colorado Energy Office (CEO), GRID Alternatives (GRID), and Poudre Valley Rural Electric Association (PVREA) announced Thursday that it has developed a community solar project that will cut down on electric bills for qualified low-income residents. The installation, known as […]

March 20, 2017

A multi-tenant commercial facility in Brooklyn is hosting a landmark project – New York City’s first community solar development. The project is the first of several under development by UGE – a global provider of solar solutions to the commercial […]

February 21, 2017

The Maryland Public Service Commission (PSC) has approved the final rules that will implement the state’s three-year community solar pilot programme. The programme’s target capacity is 192.1MW of solar PV  over three years as outlined in the HB 1087 legislation […]

February 14, 2017

Last year was a good one for U.S. community solar. Utilities and third-party developers completed 343 megawatts of projects, a strong increase from the 125 megawatts completed in 2015. By 2019, the yearly market will reach half a gigawatt. That means […]

February 3, 2017

While solar policy debates have already been raging for several years, the discussion is far from over. Nearly every single U.S. state took some type of policy action related to distributed solar in 2016, according to the NC Clean Energy […]

December 29, 2016

As 2016 fades away, a new year approaches with a new set of unknowns for the evolving energy sector. A variety of different assets are coming on-line and challenging utilities that, even just a few years ago, did not have […]

May 10, 2016

The United States is celebrating a major milestone that has been 40 years in the making: one million solar installations nationwide. Thanks to the more than 200,000 Americans working in the solar industry, and the innovations that have driven down […]