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Airbnb Partners With SolarCity to Bring Solar Energy to the Home Sharing Community

Airbnb, the world’s leading community-driven hospitality company and SolarCity Corp. (NASDAQ: SCTY), the nation’s #1 solar power provider, are announcing a new partnership that will connect Airbnb hosts and guests with an affordable and sustainable way to power their homes with solar energy, and are releasing estimates of the environmental benefits of home sharing for […]

Research finds roughly one-half of consumers who have solar or EV technology have both

Recently, Smart Grid Consumer Collaborative (SGCC) has released its latest research, Consumer Driven Technologies. Compiled on behalf of and available to its nationwide energy industry members, the report sheds light on consumer attitudes and their interest in solar power and electric vehicles. Consumer Driven Technologies surveyed 1,571 respondents on four distinct technologies and services: residential solar, […]

Standard Solar Breaks Ground on New Solar Project for Choptank Electric Cooperative

Standard Solar, Inc., a leading solar energy company specializing in the development and financing of solar electric systems nationwide, and Choptank Electric Cooperative, Inc. recently celebrated the groundbreaking of a new solar project. The 503 kilowatt, 1,596 panel system, being built by Standard Solar, is expected to produce 706 megawatt hours per year. Being built on […]

8minutenergy Initiates Development Platform Capital Raise, and Investment Opportunity into Over 500 MW of Projects With Long Term PPAs and $1 Billion Enterprise Value

-8minutenergy Renewables, LLC, the leading independent solar photovoltaic (PV) developer in the United States, recently announced it is initiating a capital raising process to fuel growth of its 5.5 gigawatt (GW) U.S. pipeline, including over 500 megawatts (MW) of wholly-owned near shovel ready projects with long term power purchase agreements (PPA). 8minutenergy has retained BofA Merrill […]

Denzo Selects Site For 30 MW Solar Farm

Denzo Group Australia has selected a 90 hectare site in the Wide Bay – Burnett Region of Queensland, Australia, as the location for a 30 MW large scale solar farm. To be developed in partnership with Natcore Technology, the American solar R&D company, the site would be developed to a “shovel ready” stage with storage of […]

SolarCity and Credit Suisse Partner to Finance More Than $300 Million in Residential Solar Projects

SolarCity Corp. recently announced that it has created a new fund to finance more than $300 million in solar projects with Credit Suisse. The fourth such collaboration between SolarCity and Credit Suisse will allow thousands of homeowners in the U.S. to pay less for solar electricity than they pay for utility bills. The fund represents another new […]