Greenskies Renewable Energy, a Clean Focus company, completed a 137-kW solar array in Sprague, Connecticut, which will generate solar electricity for the Sprague wastewater treatment plant. Located on adjacent property, the solar project will provide 80% of the power needed at the plant. Greenskies designed and installed a fixed tilt ground mounted system with 378…
By C.C. Cole, freelance writer Combine a corporate donor with a half-dozen eager community college students, expose them to sunlight, and you have a grant-funding program for solar job training. The initiative between the Bank of America and the St. Louis Community College is yielding results just two months after it began. Students of the…
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Know your audience when it comes to pricing transparency
How do you build a healthy solar business in a constantly changing market? Solar businesses have had to confront the effects of tariffs, changing incentives and many other new drivers of demand, which creates both opportunities and challenges for solar software. At the 2018 Solar Software Summit, MJ Shiao, formerly of Wood Mackenzie Power &…
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Dissecting the California mandate of solar on all new homes 
In recent years, costs for solar in the United States have come down, largely due to decreasing solar PV module costs. However, solar soft costs — including customer acquisition and the cost of services like installation, interconnection and permitting — have remained high, now making up approximately 64% of the total cost of a new…
There is no doubt that renewables are the largest opportunity in business history. However, growth comes with pain, and a young industry like renewables isn’t what one would call stable. Industry investors have been employing diversification in energy type, OEMs and different markets as a safety net against turbulence, but is it enough? And, is…
