Tag: Residential Solar

  • Electriq Power signs agreement with turnkey microgrid provider Emergent

    Electriq Power, a developer of intelligent and integrated home energy storage, management, and monitoring solutions, entered into a definitive agreement with Emergent Microgrid, a provider of turnkey microgrids with community-concentrated deployments in Santa Barbara and Montecito, California. Emergent Microgrid will bolster Electriq Power’s fleet of residential and small commercial batteryRead More — Solar Builder magazine

  • Vote for the 2020 Solar Builder Projects of the Year

    Solar Builder readers submitted their coolest, most innovative and noteworthy solar projects of the last 12 months, and after combing through another record amount of submissions, we’ve narrowed the field to these 2020 Project of the Year nominees! This year the field is divided into FIVE categories: Residential (single-family, multi-family)Read More — Solar Builder magazine

  • Non-utility solar installations definitely slowed by Covid in Q2, says SEIA, Wood Mackenzie

    The U.S. solar market installed 3.5 gigawatts (GW) of new solar PV capacity in Q2 2020, only a drop of 6% from Q1 installations, but that’s propped up by utility-scale projects (71% of total capacity brought online). The U.S. Solar Market Insight Q3 2020 report, released today by the SolarRead More — Solar Builder magazine

  • Sunrun brings Brightbox battery system to Florida Power and Light territory

    Sunrun is expanding access to its Brightbox rechargeable solar battery system, which features Tesla Powerwall batteries, to serve more parts of Orlando and Tampa. Sunrun’s expansion into Florida Power & Light’s (FPL) service territory means that more people can benefit from Sunrun’s solar and home battery offerings. Sunrun began providingRead More — Solar Builder magazine

  • SunPower debuts lower APR for its residential solar financing

    SunPower Corp. announced new low-annual percentage rate (APR) loans for U.S. residential solar customers. The new rates are expected to result in substantially lower monthly payments for homeowners purchasing SunPower’s comprehensive solar energy solutions, lowering the barriers to entry so more households can use the clean energy of solar to generateRead More — Solar Builder magazine