Not everyday do you find a contact for rooftop solar power system available on the discount coupon website Groupon. SolarCity and Groupon experimented by offering rooftop solar installation and maintenance contract over a period of two months and received quite a good response. In June, the two Nasdaq-listed companies joined hands … [continued]
It started with off-grid locations, places where electricity was either carried in or generated on-site. Then it beat expensive diesel generators. In 2010, unsubsidized solar electricity could best on-grid retail electricity prices of major utilities in Hawaii. In the next decade, residents in metropolitan areas representing 100 million people … [continued]
Countering misinformation being spread in the midst of tough economic times and a presidential election year, a US PREF study finds that the federal solar investment tax credit generates a healthy return on taxpayers’ investment. […]
The recent U.S. residential housing and mortgage market collapse gave securitization a bad name, but the practice of aggregating and dicing up residential solar PV system leases and commercial solar power purchase agreements (PPAs) is bound to play a role in solar and renewable energy finance going forward.
Almost 90% of Americans think it’s important the US develop and use solar energy, while more than 80% support federal tax credits and grants for the solar industry. More than half said they would pay more for products made using solar power. So what’s up in Congress?
Solar leasing has offered thousands of homeowners a “no money down” route to go solar, broadening participation in the distributed generation revolution. Unfortunately, this revolution has been co-opted by high finance. Big banks have been able to write off millions in taxes by over-reporting the cost of financed solar PV projects in what may be the country’s next banking scandal.
