It sure seems like I am seeing more and more articles like this one from the USA Today, titled, “Turning parking lots into vast urban solar farms.” And if it makes it into a paper like the USA Today, it is certainly mainstream. What are solar carports? Take typical surface parking lots — like ones [...]
We’ve talked about PACE financing quite a bit around here over the course of the last several months. Initially, we just explained what it actually is back in February, (What is PACE financing?). And there is this YouTube video which does some explaining in PACE 101. We also touched on the new Florida law that [...]
Last week, we blogged here about a $100M tax equity fund to finance residential solar installations. The installations were to be performed by a company call SunRun. On Tuesday, June 29th, SunRun announced it closed a Series C round of funding for $55 million led by Sequoia Capital and joined by existing investors Accel Partners [...]
In a recent NY Times article, it was announced that Deutsche Bank Americas Foundation, the philanthropic arm of the German bank, is financing the creation of a public database of several hundred retrofitted buildings in New York City and a companion report to determine the savings from such moves. I love the notion that they [...]
According to this article from the NY Times, P.G.&E. Corporation, the California utility holding company, has created a $100 million tax-equity fund to finance residential solar installations. The fund, managed by a P.G.&E. subsidiary, Pacific Energy Capital II, is the largest single solar leasing pool to date, according to the company, and marks the growing [...]
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