Driving on sunshine. Driving on sunlight. That’s the dream that has become a reality for millions of people in the past decade. Powering one’s home represents a monumental shift in energy. For most of us, all of our ancestors since the discovery of fire have burned things in order to heat their homes — up […]
Sunrun Solar Prepared for Predicted Big Year in Solar
With a lot of discussion around climate change, it comes as no surprise that property owners are putting their money where their mouth is by making the switch to solar. It also shows in the latest data from the industry’s governing body. MELBOURNE, Australia : The most recent Quarterly Carbon Market Report from the Clean […]
Sunrun Deploys Record Solar Capacity in Q4 as Battery Interest Increases
More than a third of Sunrun’s California sales included batteries, and more than half of all Bay Area solar installations were storage-paired. The nation’s top rooftop solar installer finished the year with a burst of home solar-plus-storage deals. Sunrun installed a record 117 megawatts of solar in Q4, within its most recent guidance for the […]
SolarEdge, Enphase Hit by Sharp Slowdown in Solar Installations During Pandemic’s Depths
Orders are rising again in the U.S. solar market, but “the rate of that recovery is questionable,” says SolarEdge CEO Zvi Lando. Residential solar inverter rivals SolarEdge and Enphase faced the same headwinds from the COVID-19 pandemic in the second quarter, with both companies reporting a downturn in Q2 revenue. However, both companies also laid out […]
Sunrun’s Vivint buy aims to make home solar cheaper
The deal, announced late on Monday, combines two of the five biggest US residential solar companies at a time when the industry is struggling with sharply weaker demand due to the coronavirus pandemic With its $1.5 billion acquisition of smaller rival Vivint Solar Inc, Sunrun is creating a residential solar behemoth that it hopes will […]
Portland General Electric Jumps Into Virtual Power Plant Business
Oregon’s largest electric utility wants a better understanding of the value of home batteries in grid operation and planning. Portland General Electric, the largest utility in Oregon, is jumping into the cutting-edge business of turning home batteries into grid resources. The company announced this week that it has received approval from regulators to link up […]
California Finalizes Plan Shifting Key Energy Storage Incentive Toward Blackout Resilience
State to spend half a billion dollars by 2024 helping vulnerable customers install on-site batteries, a big change for the market. California regulators have finalized plans to direct more than half a billion dollars in behind-the-meter battery incentives over the next four years to customers most at risk of being impacted by the state’s increasingly […]
California Seeks to Shift Major Battery Incentive Toward Fire, Blackout Resiliency
CPUC proposes to spend $613 million of total $1.2 billion SGIP budget through 2024 on battery-solar systems for high-fire-risk customers. Over its 13-year history, California’s Self-Generation Incentive Program has been the state’s primary driver for distributed solar, biomass power systems, fuel cells. and, over the past half-decade or so, behind-the-meter batteries. Now California regulators are […]
Residential Solar Hits New Peak in US with Record Q3 Installations
The quarterly record came amid weakness in northeastern states, traditionally a stronghold for rooftop installers. The U.S. residential solar industry pulled off an all-time record for installations in the third quarter, according to new research from Wood Mackenzie and the Solar Energy Industries Association. And it happened with Northeastern states — traditionally powerhouses in the […]
Fast Times for the US Residential Solar Market
Scale rivaling utility players. Power shutoffs. And a whole lot of batteries. Here are the latest trends in the U.S. home solar market. Fall earnings season brought a barrage of new data on the performance of rooftop solar installers, since all the large national players are publicly traded. For one thing, the national residential solar […]