Category: Green Building LEED News
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SolarCity completes first securitization of distributed solar loan assets
SolarCity Corp. completed its first securitization of distributed solar loan assets, the company’s fifth securitization transaction to date. SolarCity completed a private placement in the amount of $185 million—$2.89 per watt of generation capacity in the portfolio—with a blended coupon interest rate of 5.17 percent and a blended yield rateRead More — Solar Builder magazine
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New Hampshire net metering cap angst: SunRay Solar lays off one-third of its workforce
SunRay Solar LLC is a full-service solar energy systems integrator and is the leading installer for ground-mount in New Hampshire — but perhaps no longer. The Concord-based SunRay made the decision to layoff one-third of its workers and scale back operations because of New Hampshire’s solar net metering cap. ThisRead More — Solar Builder magazine
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More Nevada solar layoffs: Priemier Solar, Radiant Solar make cuts
Stop us if you’ve heard this one before, but solar companies are laying off workers in Nevada and looking for business out of state. Following the now infamous decision to slash net metering buyback rates and add high fees for solar customers in Nevada, Las Vegas-based Radiant Solar Solutions of NV wasRead More — Solar Builder magazine
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How inverters are changing PV systems with bundled services
There’s that joke about smartphones that’s kind of a cliché now: Why are they called “phones” still? The phone part is like 1 percent of its usefulness. Inverters are kind of trending in that direction, too. Defining an inverter as merely a device that converts direct current from a solarRead More — Solar Builder magazine
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Time to Stop Flaring on Public Land, New Regulations Target Fracking
An incredible 20% of the gas produced in 2012 was flared, about 3% of US greenhouse gas emissions.