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  • Solar funding activity: Q3 falls by half, yieldcos out of favor

    After two record quarters, residential and commercial solar funds in Q3 2015 fell by almost half with $997 million in five deals, according to the Mercom Q3 Solar Funding and M&A Report. However, the year-to-date total has now surpassed the $4 billion raised last year. “After a record second quarter, projectRead More — Solar Builder magazine

  • Details on 88-kW rooftop install at Schernecker Property Services by Nexamp

    Nexamp and Nextility completed an 88-kW rooftop solar system at Schernecker Property Services’ (SPS) headquarters in Waltham, Mass. The project was designed and built by Nexamp and financed by Nextility, who will own and operate the project. Modules: 270 Suniva OPT 325 Mounting: PanelClaw Polar Bear RMS Gen III Inverters:Read More — Solar Builder magazine

  • Ideal Power receives 14.5-MW order for mix of power conversion tech

    Retaining previous business is always a good thing, and growing that business is even better. Ideal Power, a developer of power conversion technologies, just received an order for 14.5 MW of its power conversion products for use in Battery Energy Storage Systems predominately for California and Hawaii. The order comes fromRead More — Solar Builder magazine

  • Solar bad for the poor? SEIA fights Wall Street Journal op-ed

    The Wall Street Journal ran an opinion piece a few weeks ago titled “This Child Doesn’t Need a Solar Panel” with the subhead “Spending billions of dollars on climate-related aid in countries that need help with tuberculosis, malaria and malnutrition.” The intentions of the columnist might have been in aRead More — Solar Builder magazine

  • Solar ag boost: More USDA loans, grants available for renewable projects

    The ag sector is an important one for solar, so the announcement last week from the USDA that it is awarding loans and grants that will help more than 1,100 rural small businesses and agricultural producers reduce energy usage and costs in their operations is a welcome one. The funding isRead More — Solar Builder magazine