When President Donald J. Trump decided to impose 30% tariffs on imported solar modules, I thought the industry might be in for some rough times. After all, price hikes on thin-margin projects could have been the difference between a project getting done and getting scuttled. Well,...
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In general, commercial owners have one of five options to finance their solar projects: outright ownership, power-purchase agreement (PPA), bank loan, lease or public financing through government-supported programs like property-assessed clean energy financing, or C-PACE. In this post, we’ll discuss them all and provide an overview...
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By Scott Wiater, President of Standard Solar Conventional wisdom, if you listen to most solar industry analysts, maintains that commercial solar is lagging behind the utility and residential sectors when it comes to finding financing. That conventional wisdom is dead wrong—but that doesn’t mean commercial solar...
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A little more than a year ago, Standard Solar was purchased by Montreal-based energy giant Gaz Métro. For a lot of people—including some in our own organization—the question was this: What will the acquisition mean for Standard Solar’s longstanding goal of being the best solar...
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In 2005, the solar industry wasn’t the unstoppable behemoth it is today. In fact, just a handful of firms were in the market at all, and many of those were already well on their way to failure. Enter my friend Neville Williams, a former journalist, who...
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