Tag: News

  • Solar costs rising: kWh Analytics finds a unique insurance solution

    Climate insurance provider kWh Analytics has partnered with Pivot Energy LLC to provide Solar Revenue Put production insurance for multiple distributed solar projects totaling 70 MW across six states. The Solar Revenue Put was added post financial close to improve leverage from lenders Silicon Valley Bank, Cadence Bank and Bank United. Everest is the main……

  • Banyan Infrastructure adds $25M to accelerate sustainable financing software platform

    Banyan Infrastructure, a sustainable financing software platform, has secured a $25 million Series B funding round, bringing the company’s total funding to over $42 million. Climate software investor Energize Ventures led the round of funding, with participation from new investors SE Ventures and Elemental Excelerator and existing investors VoLo Earth and Ulu Ventures. In addition,……

  • VPP software provider Shifted Energy closes $4.3M funding round

    Shifted Energy provides utilities, property managers and owners of multi-family housing with distributed energy resource (DER) control and monitoring systems, machine-learning data analytics, and dispatch optimization software. Shifted Energy’s platform essentially creates virtual power plants. This is a complex part of the renewable energy market that is growing in importance. “We started Shifted Energy with……

  • Seraphim S4 series modules earn low-carbon certificate

    Seraphim Energy Group Co. announced that it has received the “low-carbon” certificate from CERTISOLIS for its S4 series modules, which evaluates carbon emission impact along the manufacturing chain starting from silicon production to module production. This is an inevitable prerequisite to participate in the French Energy Regulation Council (CRE) auctions, but is also becoming important……

  • Home solar + storage is really a sale of software

    Installers face a difficult task in educating and selling a solar + storage system to a prospective residential or commercial customer, but that task is becoming much more manageable, thanks to an evolving host of software programs and integrated software suites. “New and evolving solar and storage economic variables are going to make it very……