Tag: financing

  • Total corporate funding in solar sector plummets in Q1 2018 due to U.S trade war

    Mercom Capital Group, llc, a global clean energy communications and consulting firm, released its report on funding and merger and acquisition (M&A) activity for the global solar sector in the first quarter of 2018. Total corporate funding (including venture capital funding, public market, and debt financing) into the solar sectorRead More — Solar Builder magazine

  • CleanCapital, CarVal Investors form $250 million equity partnership to invest in solar

    CleanCapital and CarVal Investors, a global alternative investment fund manager, announced a new $250 million equity partnership that, including debt financing, enables the acquisition of up to $1 billion of clean energy assets. This partnership harnesses CarVal’s expertise across different asset classes and creates an opportunity to define clean energyRead More — Solar Builder magazine

  • OYA Solar sells 28 MW of Minnesota community solar to NRG Energy

    OYA Solar Inc. has closed on the sale of four Minnesota community solar projects totaling 28 MWdc with NRG Energy, Inc. The four projects are located in the counties of Benton, Blue Earth, Douglas, and Yellow Medicine on approximately 180 acres of land. Two of the projects have reached MechanicalRead More — Solar Builder magazine

  • Study shows PACE financing’s big impact in driving solar installations

    A federally funded analysis by researchers at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL) offers evidence that the home-improvement financing option known as Property Assessed Clean Energy (PACE) has been “uniquely successful” as a driver of residential solar-power systems in California. Essentially, many of the systems installed via this financing vehicle simply couldRead More — Solar Builder magazine

  • CleanChoice Energy debuts slick platform to connect more customers to community solar

    An issue for community solar, like most solar projects, is customer acquisition. CleanChoice Energy is looking to solve that with a new solution: CleanChoice Community Solar, a new platform to connect people to local community solar projects. This platform will allow customers to sign-up in less than five minutes, and manageRead More — Solar Builder magazine