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Category: Green Building LEED News

  • Fossil fuel developer jumps into massive solar project in Texas

    Solar Plus Development, a subsidiary of Plus Renewable Technologies, Limited, and Avondale Solar LLC have entered into an agreement with J-POWER USA Development Co. to jointly develop a 350 MWac solar PV project in Wharton County, Texas — Red-Tailed Hawk Solar — that they have been developing via their equallyRead More — Solar Builder magazine

  • SunPower signs $1 billion financing deal with Technology Credit Union

    SunPower Corp. announced a whopping $1 billion partnership with Technology Credit Union (Tech CU) that will increase financing options for qualified U.S. residential solar customers. The new partnership will give SunPower access to capital for its loan program. There will be multiple benefits for both SunPower and its customers: ReductionRead More — Solar Builder magazine

  • Corrosion and Conformity: Kern Solar on what solar gets wrong (and can learn from other energy industries)

    “We build with solar energy — our fabrication facility is powered by renewables. We really believe in it, but solar support structures are kind of a nuisance for me right now,” laughs Tony Worthen, VP of operations and product development at Kern Solar Structures, when giving me the rundown ofRead More — Solar Builder magazine

  • Spruce Finance closes huge debt financing deal for its residential solar portfolio

    Spruce Finance, a large 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 Fund (SEQI). TheRead More — Solar Builder magazine

  • Ginlong Solis inverters now SunSpec-certified for rapid shutdown

    Ginlong Technologies officially rolled out its portfolio of SunSpec-certified residential, hybrid and commercial inverters to the U.S. market in April. Upon successful completion of the SunSpec Modbus certification, Solis single and three phase inverters now include the SunSpec communication protocol for rapid shutdown, in accordance with NEC 2017-2020 module-level requirements.Read More — Solar Builder magazine