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Tag: Residential Solar

  • Four notes on the rise of residential solar loans over third-party owned leases

    According to the U.S. residential solar finance update: H2 2019 from Wood Mackenzie, solar loans are officially outpacing leases in the residential solar segment – hitting 55 percent market share in the first half of 2019. This equals 40 percent growth year over year in solar loans. 1. Expanding baseRead More — Solar Builder magazine

  • Sunnova, bullish on 2020 sales, announces safe harbor purchase and debt facilities to spur growth

    Sunnova Energy International Inc. closed an aggregate $150 million in financing through an approximately $95 million revolving asset-based loan facility and a private placement of $55 million aggregate principal amount of convertible senior notes. Sunnova will be using this capital to grow its customer count and battery storage sales, asRead More — Solar Builder magazine

  • The 19 best Solar Builder articles from 2019

    Looking back at 2019, if I had to pick a pun moniker for the solar industry (and I do), it wasn’t so much a ‘solar-coaster’ as it was a ‘solar derby.’ Established companies, technologies and ideas were all bashing into each other, forming alliances and finding other competitive edges toRead More — Solar Builder magazine

  • California new-build solar mandate crash course

    2020 – the dawn of the Solar+ Decade – kicks off with the official launch of California’s much heralded (and controversial) Building Energy Efficiency Standards Title 24 mandate that all new residential construction include a solar energy component. If you spent most of 2019 trapped in a well or waitingRead More — Solar Builder magazine

  • How Westhaven helps its community beyond solar energy installs

    Today we salute Westhaven Inc., a solar installer and complete energy solution provider based in Yuba City, Calif., for the launch of Westhaven Gives Back — a program that formalizes and expands on its eight years of corporate philanthropy. “In today’s fast-moving world, families can become displaced overnight by lifeRead More — Solar Builder magazine