Tag: financing

  • Geostellar works with Etsy to form Etsy Solar

    Online solar marketplace Geostellar officially announced a partnership with Etsy, Inc., a marketplace where people around the world connect to make, sell and buy unique goods, to launch a new pilot program called Etsy Solar. The program will help members of the Etsy community install solar panels on their homesRead More — Solar Builder magazine

  • RENVU Solar Distribution now has flexible short-term financing via Wunder Capital

    RENVU Solar Equipment Distribution, a California based equipment distributor, has teamed up with Wunder Capital to offer its customers flexible short-term equipment financing. Based in Boulder, Colo., Wunder Capital is a financial technology company that provides financing to solar projects throughout the country. Wunder allows accredited individuals, trusts, family offices, foundations, hedgeRead More — Solar Builder magazine

  • New York utilities, SolarCity propose landmark partnership

    New York just keeps bringing the solar news, with most of it centered on collaboration. Six New York investor-owned utilities have joined SolarCity Corp. and other solar companies in the creation of the Solar Progress Partnership. The group yesterday filed a joint proposal with the New York Public Service CommissionRead More — Solar Builder magazine

  • U.S. to standardize solar data collection, could revolutionize marketplace

    Data unlocks understanding, and those who control data collection and analysis can wield considerable power. Data is a big part of evaluating PV performance and cost, but the industry still has a lot to discover and figure out (this is apparent when utilities and regulators discuss how to value distributedRead More — Solar Builder magazine

  • Solar funding in Q1: Totals way down year over year — so who closed deals?

    Mercom Capital Group released its report on funding and merger and acquisition (M&A) activity for the solar sector in the first quarter of 2016. Total corporate funding, including venture capital funding, public market and debt financing, into the solar sector in Q1 2016 dropped to $2.8 billion compared to $6.9Read More — Solar Builder magazine