Category: Green Building LEED News

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • Survey of U.K. investors shows serious interest in renewable energy in 2020

    Renewable energy is the top investment sector for investors in the United Kingdom, a survey by GraniteShares has revealed. Almost a third of respondents believe that renewables are the best sector to put their money into in 2020, reflecting a surge in growth and optimism about the industry in recentRead More — Solar Builder magazine