Tag: Residential Solar

  • WattBuy nets $3.5M to expand its renewables-focused electricity marketplace

    WattBuy is an online electricity marketplace with the goal of empowering consumers to make smarter decisions about their electricity costs, allowing homeowners to browse and select plans in their area. It is a good idea, one that just raised $3.25 million in its Series A round of funding led byRead More — Solar Builder magazine

  • How Sunflare added 9-kW of solar on this 100-year-old barn roof

    This barn is on Hopeful Hollow Farm in Rockingham County, VA is 100 years old. So is the roof, but now it can generate 9-kW of new power every day. Sunflare installed LiteMount, the only ultralight weight module that can be installed on weight-constrained roofs — installing at less than 1Read More — Solar Builder magazine

  • sonnen launches lower price-point home battery solution in sonnenCore

    sonnen launched a new compact, affordable and fully sonnen-designed home battery solution, known as sonnenCore. This product evolution expands sonnen’s premium offerings to include a broader, more cost-conscious base of homebuilders, installers and customers, who do not want to compromise on quality. “With the increasing demand for energy security and theRead More — Solar Builder magazine

  • Spruce Finance buys two more residential solar portfolios, including NRG’s

    Spruce Finance, the largest private owner and operator of distributed generation residential solar assets in the U.S., has acquired two new asset portfolios, including the balance of NRG’s residential holdings. The NRG purchase is Spruce’s largest to date and the latest example of the company’s residential solar asset “growth byRead More — Solar Builder magazine

  • OutBack Power partners with Ray Lewis’s Power52 Foundation to advance solar education

    POWER52 is a Baltimore-based non-profit that provides career training and job placement opportunities in the renewable energy sector, bringing forth equitable opportunities and inclusion to an underrepresented demographic and population. Power52’s Energy Professional Training program is accredited by the National Center for Construction, Education & Research (NCCER) that provides classroom instruction,Read More — Solar Builder magazine