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  • Here’s how a new program will fund more multifamily solar projects in California

    Multifamily housing is one of the most complicated segments for the solar industry given the competing interests of tenants and owners. California, usually the first state to do everything in solar, is trying to make this easier with a new program. The California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) approved of aRead More — Solar Builder magazine

  • Shell gets into U.S. solar industry with latest acquisition

    If you can’t beat ’em, acquire ’em. Shell is expanding its reach into renewable energy, signing an agreement to acquire a 43.83 percent interest in U.S. solar company Silicon Ranch Corp. from funds managed and/or advised by Partners Group. Consideration for the shares is between $193 and $217 million contingent on SiliconRead More — Solar Builder magazine

  • NEXTracker working on a giant 325 MW solar tracker project in Egypt

    Global solar EPC company Sterling and Wilson selected NEXTracker to supply 325 megawatts (5 blocks of 65 MW each) of its smart solar trackers to its massive project within the Benban solar park in Aswan, Egypt. The Benban solar park occupies 37-square-kilometers and, when completed in 2019, will host aRead More — Solar Builder magazine

  • Mercom: Strong Q4 pushes overall solar funding higher in 2017

    The year-end solar installation reports for the U.S. were a bit of a downer, but private funding in solar across the globe is up year over year, according to Mercom Capital Group’s 2017 Q4 and annual report on funding and merger and acquisition (M&A) activity for the solar sector. Total globalRead More — Solar Builder magazine

  • Mercom: Strong Q4 pushes overall solar funding higher in 2017

    The year-end solar installation reports for the U.S. were a bit of a downer, but private funding in solar across the globe is up year over year, according to Mercom Capital Group’s 2017 Q4 and annual report on funding and merger and acquisition (M&A) activity for the solar sector. Total globalRead More — Solar Builder magazine