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The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) is investing up to €105 million ($109.5 million) in a large-scale solar-thermal plant in Novi Sad, Serbia. The project is expected to reduce the district heating agency’s natural gas consumption by around ...
This funding will help the cooperative reach its goal to cut its carbon emissions in half by 2032.La Plata Electric Association in Colorado is seeking $13.4 million to save more than half a million dollars in annual energy costs and deliver affordable clean solar energy to its member owners. This includes people living in distressed, disadvantaged and energy communities. It also ...
Investment in new large- and small-scale solar projects rose to a record-breaking $120 billion, up 33% from the first half of 2021. Wind project financing was up 16% from 1H 2021, at $84 billion. Both sectors have been challenged recently by rising input costs for key materials such as steel and polysilicon, as well as supply chain disruptions and rising ...
During the Intersolar South America Digital Xperience, SolarPower Europe’s Emerging Markets Workstream, supported by the Global Solar Council, presented its Latin America Solar Investment Opportunities Report.This report provides a general overview of the business environment and major macroeconomic, demographic, and socio-political trends in key Latin ...
Spruce Finance, the largest private owner and operator of distributed generation solar and residential energy assets in the U.S., has closed a $124 million debt financing deal for its portfolio of residential solar power purchase agreements (PPAs) and leases with Vantage Infrastructure and Sequoia Economic Infrastructure Income ...
US solar jobs multiply as installations soar US solar employment is forecast to rise by 7.8% this year to 269,500 jobs due to a surge in new installations, the Solar Foundation said in its latest National Solar Jobs Census. ...
” The actions that SolSmart communities have taken help reduce soft costs, which are the non-hardware costs that today represent roughly 65% of the cost of solar installations. SolSmart helps local governments streamline permit approvals, review planning and zoning guidelines, facilitate group purchase campaigns, and improve solar ...
Spruce is looking beyond residential portfolios and is also evaluating community and commercial solar assets. Tim Distler recently joined Spruce as vice president of corporate development to lead the company’s project finance and M&A activity. Distler has extensive experience in solar financing, having led a ...
Spruce Finance, a leading owner and operator of distributed generation solar and residential energy assets in the U.S., announced today the closing of a $208 million senior secured financing of its residential solar assets. The debt financing gives Spruce access to competitively priced capital, further optimizing ...
Standard Solar, Inc., a leading solar energy company specializing in the development and financing of solar electric systems nationwide, has expanded with a new office located in downtown Chicago. The new solar project financing office supports the increasing need for turnkey ...
—April 4, 2019 — Standard Solar, Inc., a leading solar energy company specializing in the development and financing of solar electric systems nationwide, has expanded with a new office located in downtown Chicago. The new solar project financing office supports the increasing need for ...
This week Standard Solar announced that it would be acquiring five distributed solar energy projects totaling 27 MW of generation capacity set to be built in New York and Rhode Island. Standard Solar will engineer, build, finance, own and operate all five projects which are expected to commence construction over the next six to ...
—February 20, 2019 — Standard Solar, Inc., a leading solar energy company specializing in the development and financing of solar electric systems nationwide, today announced it has signed an agreement to acquire 27 megawatts (MW) of distributed generation (DG) solar projects in New York and Rhode ...
Companies are raising capital for commercial solar. And community solar is booming. It's a heady time for investment in distributed commercial solar. Now more than ever, it's important to understand what commercial customers want, and how these solar projects are financed. According to GTM's new report, ...
The African Developmen: Bank and the International Solar Alliance have agreed to work together on financial mechanisms that will help drive 10 GW of solar deployments in Africa's Sahel, an eco-climatic and biogeographic zone of transition between the Sahara and the Sudanian Savanna. ...
Key trends on important market variables like solar volumes, system pricing, sizing and utility bill offsets are available at a granular level along with trends on the use of different financing programs. ...
Lightsource Renewable Energy, Europe’s leading solar energy generator, has announced the connection of the UK’s first Contracts for Difference (CfD) solar farm with £8.7million of funding from The Royal Bank of Scotland plc (“RBS”). ...
Since the SunShot Initiative was launched, solar technologies, solar markets, and the solar industry itself have changed dramatically. Cumulative U.S. solar energy deployment has increased more than tenfold, while the cost of electricity from solar has dropped by as much as 65 percent. ...
PV manufacturers will use the new standard to increase the level of confidence investors, utilities, and consumers have in solar panel safety and reliability, which in turn should lower the cost of financing for solar projects. ...
Panels capable of generating about 200 megawatts of solar power will be financed by Apple in the northern, southern and eastern regions of China, where many of its suppliers are located. The Cupertino, California, company is teaming up with its Chinese suppliers to build the capacity for the remaining 2 gigawatts of renewable energy, which will be a mix of ...