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  • Habitat for Humanity community in Sacramento goes solar via SunPower

    Habitat for Humanity of Greater Sacramento’s affordable housing community, Cornerstone, is going to be solar-powered thanks to a donation from SunPower and a supporting grant. This will be the first-of-its-kind, all-electric, solar-powered affordable housing community in Sacramento serving low-income families in partnership with Mutual Housing of CA. “The climate is changing and so must our……

  • SunPower works with three builders on new multifamily solar install deal

    SunPower Corp. is growing its multifamily solar business — one of the trickier segments for deploying solar PV systems — with three builders signed on to include SunPower solar systems on upcoming new-builds. “Families renting in apartments or other multiunit complexes can benefit tremendously from lower electricity bills, especially as utility rates continue to rise,”……

  • Google Nest, General Motors headline RMI’s Virtual Power Plant Partnership

    Virtual power plants (VPP) are an intriguing path to a more efficient and cost-effective electric grid. VPPs involve the aggregation and coordination of distributed energy resources (like homes with solar + battery storage or smart thermostats or even EVs) to work together as an asset on the grid. Customers themselves or their authorized energy management……

  • SunPower offering lower APR loans for residential solar + storage systems

    SunPower Corp. announced super low Annual Percentage Rate (APR) loans for residential customers looking to buy either the solar-only Equinox system or SunVault battery storage. The company’s new offerings include rates as low as 0.99% for a 15-year loan and 1.99% for a 25-year loan and are offered through Technology Credit UnionRead More — Solar Builder magazine

  • Monitoring home solar monitors: SunPower and Sense update their apps, David Energy wants to do everything

    Installing a ton of residential solar doesn’t just “distribute” generation, it distributes the responsibility for managing that generation, and we are just starting to scratch the surface of products and strategies for doing so. These range from customer apps that (try to) change each user’s relationship with their home’s energyRead More — Solar Builder magazine