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ACORE: Investors Confident In U.S. Renewables, Especially Utility-Scale Solar
One year into its campaign of reaching $1 trillion in U.S. private-sector investment in renewable energy and enabling grid technologies by 2030, the American...
USDA Funds Rural Solar Projects Across The Country
The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has awarded 58 grants for projects, including solar, in 17 states and Puerto Rico to reduce energy costs...
Master Limited Partnerships Bill Re-Emerges
Lawmakers have reintroduced a bipartisan, bicameral bill that would give clean energy projects access to a tax advantage currently available for fossil fuel projects.
U.S....
Massachusetts Program Increases Solar Access For Municipal Light Plant Customers
Massachusetts' Baker-Polito administration recently awarded $2.3 million to fund a solar rebate program to support residential and small commercial solar projects for customers in...
Facebook Invests Directly In 379 MW Texas Solar Project
Longroad Energy, a U.S.-based renewable energy developer, owner and operator, has announced the financial close and start of construction of its Prospero Solar project...
House Committee Boosts DOE Budget In Draft Funding Bill
The House Appropriations Committee has unveiled draft funding bills that seek higher clean energy-related budgets than requested by President Donald Trump.
For the draft fiscal...
IEEFA: Solar Tax Credit Extension Critical For Coalfield, Tribal Communities
The federal solar tax credit should be extended by at least four years in coalfield areas, such as the ones around the Navajo Generating...
Washington Commerce Dept. Funds Solar Initiatives
The Washington State Department of Commerce has announced over $1.6 million in grants in support of solar energy.
OneEnergy Renewables ($500,000) will use the funds...
Increased Funding Underscores Solar Industry’s ‘Stronger Footing’ This Year
Total corporate funding into the global solar sector in the first quarter of the year came to $2.8 billion, representing a year-over-year increase of...
Rhode Island Sweetens Brownfield Solar Incentives
The Rhode Island Office of Energy Resources (OER) has announced financial initiatives to encourage solar projects located on brownfields.
Brownfields – former industrial or commercial sites where...
The Church Pension Fund Invests In Renewable Energy
The Church Pension Fund (CPF), a New York City-based financial services organization that serves the Episcopal Church, has invested $40 million in the New...
Solar, Wind Groups Support Storage Tax Credit Proposal
U.S. Rep. Mike Doyle, D-Pa., has proposed a bill that would create an investment tax credit (ITC) for energy storage systems.
The American Wind Energy...
New BlackRock Investment To Grow CleanCapital’s Solar, Storage Portfolio
BlackRock’s Renewable Power Group has announced an investment in CleanCapital, a clean energy investment platform co-founded by the Obama administration’s chief sustainability officer, Jon...
GCube: U.S. Renewable Energy Market Should Reset Risk Benchmark
Component vulnerability, defective designs and changing OEM warranties, coupled with extreme-weather damage, have significantly increased the frequency and severity of insurance claims in the...
Quinbrook Raises $1.6B In Investor Commitments To Low-Carbon Strategy
Quinbrook Infrastructure Partners – a global investment manager focused exclusively on lower-carbon and renewable energy infrastructure investment and operational asset management in the U.S.,...
Software Firm Nets New Round of Funding
Aurora Solar, a company that focuses on software solutions for distributed solar applications, says it has raised $20 million in a Series A funding...
GRID Alternatives Gets Renewed Funding For SolarCorps Fellowship Program
Ahead of the annual MLK Day of Service, GRID Alternatives, a nonprofit that makes solar power and job training more accessible to underserved communities, has...
Global Corporate Funding Into Solar Sector Falls 24%
Total global corporate funding into the solar sector – including venture capital and private equity, debt financing, and public market financing – came to...
Wisconsin Nonprofits Win Solar Funding
RENEW Wisconsin’s Solar for Good program is issuing 36 grants for Wisconsin nonprofits to install solar.
The grants, totaling more than $445,000, will fund 2.13 MW of...
sPower Announces $498.7M Bond Deal For Renewables Portfolio
Renewable energy independent power producer sPower recently closed a $498.7 million investment-grade, private-placement financing.
The financed portfolio represents approximately half of sPower’s 1.3 GW operating portfolio....