Category: Solar Power & Energy

  • Details on PetersenDean’s roofing and solar expansion plans

    PetersenDean, a privately-held roofing and solar company, has announced the expansion of its corporate headquarters at in Fremont, Calif. PetersenDean will remain the largest tenant in the three-story, 100,000-square-foot building. In the past six months, the company has hired more than 500 staff members, according to Jim Petersen, Founder of PetersenDean.Read More — Solar Builder magazine

  • Small business solar: Q&A on shorter term, project-backed $1M loans with Wunder Capital

    Last month, Boulder, Colo.-based financial technology company Wunder Capital launched its third financing product for commercial solar PV projects, Wunder Term Loans. These new Term Loans are designed for businesses looking for an accelerated path to ownership of their commercial solar project. Wunder focuses on the traditionally underserved small commercialRead More — Solar Builder magazine

  • Adara Power energy storage systems added to HECO qualified equipment list

    Adara Power, a privately-held Silicon Valley company working on some really cool energy storage technology, sent word that its Adara Energy Storage System has been added to the Hawaiian Electric Company (HECO) list of qualified equipment for customer self supply (CSS) installations. Residential solar customers in Hawaii are now able to installRead More — Solar Builder magazine

  • CleanFund, Soligent partner on new financing option for solar equipment dealers

    CleanFund, a specialty direct provider of long-term PACE financing for renewable energy, energy efficiency, water conservation and seismic improvements to commercial properties in the U.S., and Soligent, a large-volume distributor of solar system products in the U.S., have entered a partnership to help solar equipment dealers sell more solar energy systems toRead More — Solar Builder magazine

  • Reduce costs, install time with these new utility-scale Eaton solar combiner boxes (1,500 volt)

      Power management company Eaton just released its new Crouse-Hinds series 1,500 volt direct current (DC) combiner boxes for large-scale solar photovoltaic applications. The combiner boxes are designed to help customers reduce system costs by reducing wiring requirements and installation time. “As GTM research noted earlier this year, overall project costsRead More — Solar Builder magazine