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Category: Green Building LEED News

  • California makes history: All new homes to have solar panels starting in 2020

    How’s this for a solar shot in the arm: California has approved a new policy that will require virtually all new homes in the state to incorporate solar panels starting in 2020. The California Energy Commission voted today to adopt the policy as part of the state’s Building Energy EfficiencyRead More — Solar Builder magazine

  • Utility attacks on home solar continue: Connecticut next to end net metering

    As bad as the #TrumpTariffs were, the regulatory changes and attacks on the economics of distributed generation at the local level across the country are a much bigger cause for concern. Connecticut utility Eversource and its pals in the Connecticut Senate and House are following the lead of recent adoptersRead More — Solar Builder magazine

  • SEPA: Community solar capacity doubled in 2017, driven by third-parties

    Community solar capacity in the United States more than doubled between 2016 and 2017, from 347 megawatts (MW) at the end of 2016, to 734 MW at the end of 2017. At present, 228 utilities in 36 states have active community solar programs. Those figures are part of the findingsRead More — Solar Builder magazine

  • CleanChoice Energy launches its community solar portal for Minnesota

      CleanChoice Energy Community Solar in Minnesota is now up and running with more than 42 MW of community solar capacity. The new capacity — available for both commercial and residential customers — is being supplied by eight community solar farms owned and operated by Cypress Creek Renewables. The farmsRead More — Solar Builder magazine

  • Solar ownership passed leasing in 2017: Here are three reasons why

    Ownership officially surpassed the solar lease as the preferred financial vehicle of homeowners in the United States, according to the U.S. Residential Solar Finance Update, H1 2018, from GTM Research. This trendline started to emerge in 2015, got close in 2016 and officially tipped in 2017, with 59 percent ofRead More — Solar Builder magazine