Originally published on the Mosaic blog by Tim Bolger In 2012, the Department of Defense announced its goal to deploy three gigawatts of renewable power and meet 25% of its energy needs with renewable energy by 2025 – enough to power 750,000 homes. Each armed forces department has separate timelines … [continued]
Leading solar power company SolarCity is set to start work on a mammoth 600-unit rooftop solar project for a housing complex at Holloman Air Force Base in New Mexico, and a company higher-up has offered an interesting take on why projects like these will pound yet another nail in the … [continued]
Solar industry powerhouse SolarCity has just announced that its largest ever military project will go to power 4,700 homes at Fort Bliss in Texas and the White Sands Missile Range just across the border in New Mexico. At a total of 13.2 megawatts, the installation is SolarCity’s biggest military project to … [continued]
When the Department of Defense privatized military housing back in the 1990’s, little did it know that those homes would become the platform for the largest residential solar project in American history. Well, they did. Last November, the solar installer SolarCity announced that it would build about $1 billion in … [continued]
Andrew and Susan have covered SolarStrong a few times in that past six months. SolarStrong is SolarCity’s initiative to put affordable solar panels on existing privatized military housing across the U.S. within the next five years. SolarStrong could have doubled U.S. residential solar power installations with DOE and DOD backing, … [continued]
SolarCity and BoA-Merrill Lynch announced that they have agreed to terms on financing SolarStrong, a billion-plus dollar SolarCity project – the largest in US history – that could double the number of residential solar installations in the US by installing solar power systems on privatized US military housing communities across the country.
SolarCity’s SolarStrong project, which could double the number of US residential solar power installations, moved a step closer to becoming reality yesterday when Energy Secretary Stephen Chu approved a conditional commitment to partially guarantee a $344 million loan. Part of the SolarStrong project entails SolarCity working with leading US military housing privatization developers to install, own and operate as many as 160,000 rooftop solar power installations on as many as 124 military housing developments across 33 states,
