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HERO Home Efficiency Financing Program Launched for Homeowners in 21 More California Jurisdictions

The HERO Property Assessed Clean Energy (PACE) Program is available to local residents of 16 additional cities and five additional counties across California, starting today. HERO PACE financing enables homeowners to make energy- and water-efficiency improvements and to pay for them over time through their property tax bill. HERO financing payments may have tax benefits, […]

Legend Solar Offering Nation’s First Fully Integrated Solar Solution to Utah Homeowners with SunPower Equinox™

Legend Solar, in partnership with SunPower, introduces the SunPower Equinox™ system, now available to Utah homeowners. With a typical SunPower Equinox installation, only the solar panels and a Smart Energy management device are visible, reflecting SunPower’s minimalist architectural approach at the system level.It is the first residential solar solution in the nation in which every […]

Solar firm SunEdison files for bankruptcy

US solar company SunEdison, facing heavy scrutiny over its accounting and its failed USD 2.2 billion acquisition of Vivint Solar, filed for bankruptcy protection today. SunEdison said it obtained USD 300 million in financing to keep operations running while it reorganizes over USD 10 billion of debt in federal bankruptcy court in New York. “Our […]

SolarWorld supplies projects totaling 4 MW for water district in Southern California

SolarWorld, the largest U.S. crystalline-silicon solar manufacturer for more than 40 years, announced recently that it has supplied four systems of about 1 megawatt each for the Eastern Municipal Water District (EMWD) in California’s Riverside County. The supplies carry forward a decade-long pattern of the company providing solar panels for peak-shaving power systems for water districts […]

New Concentrated Solar Power Startup Announces Hong Kong Joint Venture to Build 2500 Plants in China by 2021

Virginia-based startup 247Solar Inc. recently announced that it is has formed a Hong Kong-based Joint Venture (JV) with Shenzhen Enesoon Science and Technology Co. to build 1000 megawatts of 247Solar’s revolutionary concentrated solar power system (CSP) that can produce electricity 24/7, i.e., every hour of the day. The first step of the Enesoon-247Solar Joint Venture will […]

NRG Partners with DigitalKap to Bring Solar Power to Haitian Non-Profits, GHESKIO and SOIL

NRG Energy, Inc.’s philanthropy program – NRG Global Giving – joined forces with Haitian solar company DigitalKap to unveil two newly installed rooftop solar arrays at Haitian non-profits Les Centres GHESKIO (GHESKIO) in Port au Prince and Sustainable Organic Integrated Livelihoods (SOIL) in Cap-Haïtien. Both organizations received systems that total 20kW. The respective systems, made […]

Six Investor-Owned Utilities Join Solar Companies in Landmark Proposal on Long-term Solar Growth in New York

Six New York investor-owned utilities have joined SolarCity Corporation and other solar companies in the creation of the Solar Progress Partnership. The group yesterday filed a joint proposal with the New York Public Service Commission for the long-term growth of distributed solar and other distributed resources to benefit New York ratepayers. The Solar Progress Partnership […]