Category: Solar Power & Energy
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Renewable energy could top natural gas in new capacity added in U.S. in 2019
According to a review by the SUN DAY Campaign of data recently released by both the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) and the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) for the first ten months of 2019, the mix of renewable energy sources (i.e., biomass, geothermal, hydropower, solar, wind) is on trackRead More — Solar Builder magazine
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Sunnova, bullish on 2020 sales, announces safe harbor purchase and debt facilities to spur growth
Sunnova Energy International Inc. closed an aggregate $150 million in financing through an approximately $95 million revolving asset-based loan facility and a private placement of $55 million aggregate principal amount of convertible senior notes. Sunnova will be using this capital to grow its customer count and battery storage sales, asRead More — Solar Builder magazine
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The 19 best Solar Builder articles from 2019
Looking back at 2019, if I had to pick a pun moniker for the solar industry (and I do), it wasn’t so much a ‘solar-coaster’ as it was a ‘solar derby.’ Established companies, technologies and ideas were all bashing into each other, forming alliances and finding other competitive edges toRead More — Solar Builder magazine
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California new-build solar mandate crash course
2020 – the dawn of the Solar+ Decade – kicks off with the official launch of California’s much heralded (and controversial) Building Energy Efficiency Standards Title 24 mandate that all new residential construction include a solar energy component. If you spent most of 2019 trapped in a well or waitingRead More — Solar Builder magazine
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EDF Renewables signs PPA for 100-MW slice of the Palen Solar Project
While we were waiting for Santa, EDF Renewables North America signed a 20-year Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) with CleanPowerSF for a 100 megawatt (MWac) tranche of the Palen Solar site known as Maverick 6 Solar Project. The project expects to come online by the end of 2021 and deliver enoughRead More — Solar Builder magazine