Tag: News
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GameChange Racking hires new operations manager
GameChange Racking is pleased to announce the on-boarding of operations veteran Joe Desimone as operations manager. He has over 9 years of experience in the areas of manufacturing, construction, and logistics management. Joe spent three years with General Motors where he was responsible for improving the quality and output ofRead More — Solar Builder magazine
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SimpliPhi Power adds solar veteran as COO
SimpliPhi Power continues to execute on its rapid expansion plans with the recent addition of Chris Beitel as chief operations officer. Beitel joins the SimpliPhi executive team after a noteworthy stay at SolarCity and prior to that, Applied Materials. Beitel will apply his extensive business commercialization expertise to scaling SimpliPhi’sRead More — Solar Builder magazine
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GRID Alternatives, SunPower bring solar to four low-income Texas homes
About 80 Austin-based employee volunteers from global solar innovator, SunPower, brought the transformative power of solar energy to four low-income families in Austin’s Blackland Neighborhood. Working with national solar nonprofit GRID Alternatives over two days, the volunteers installed four rooftop solar systems totaling 13 kW of generating capacity. The systemsRead More — Solar Builder magazine
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CPN tries to boost lagging Ohio solar market with OH SUN program
The Community Power Network (CPN), a national network of local, state, and national advocates for renewable energy announced the opening of its OH SUN program. This new effort builds off of the organization’s work in Washington, D.C., Maryland, Virginia, and West Virginia. “It is critical that the solar industry is notRead More — Solar Builder magazine
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SolarCity completes first securitization of distributed solar loan assets
SolarCity Corp. completed its first securitization of distributed solar loan assets, the company’s fifth securitization transaction to date. SolarCity completed a private placement in the amount of $185 million—$2.89 per watt of generation capacity in the portfolio—with a blended coupon interest rate of 5.17 percent and a blended yield rateRead More — Solar Builder magazine