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Tag: Residential Solar

  • Illinois sparked a solar residential boom, but COVID-19 and stalled legislation could end it

    From the Energy News Network: Illinois’s solar industry, which until recently had been booming, could be decimated by the coronavirus pandemic, according to experts and developers who are scrambling to prepare for the uncertain future. The state’s 2017 Future Energy Jobs Act sparked a boom in distributed solar installations andRead More — Solar Builder magazine

  • SunPower signs $1 billion financing deal with Technology Credit Union

    SunPower Corp. announced a whopping $1 billion partnership with Technology Credit Union (Tech CU) that will increase financing options for qualified U.S. residential solar customers. The new partnership will give SunPower access to capital for its loan program. There will be multiple benefits for both SunPower and its customers: ReductionRead More — Solar Builder magazine

  • Spruce Finance closes huge debt financing deal for its residential solar portfolio

    Spruce Finance, a large private owner and operator of distributed generation solar and residential energy assets in the U.S., has closed a $124 million debt financing deal for its portfolio of residential solar power purchase agreements (PPAs) and leases with Vantage Infrastructure and Sequoia Economic Infrastructure Income Fund (SEQI). TheRead More — Solar Builder magazine

  • Ginlong Solis inverters now SunSpec-certified for rapid shutdown

    Ginlong Technologies officially rolled out its portfolio of SunSpec-certified residential, hybrid and commercial inverters to the U.S. market in April. Upon successful completion of the SunSpec Modbus certification, Solis single and three phase inverters now include the SunSpec communication protocol for rapid shutdown, in accordance with NEC 2017-2020 module-level requirements.Read More — Solar Builder magazine

  • The Pitch: OpenSolar’s free solar PV design, proposal and CRM software

    Welcome to The Pitch — a Solar Builder side project connecting solar professionals straight to solar PV system and service providers. We explore their new ideas and chat awkwardly about their innovations so you don’t have to. First up in this new series is OpenSolar, founded by the team thatRead More — Solar Builder magazine