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5 Reasons a Landowner Should Lease Land to a Solar Farm

September 16, 2019

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5 Reasons a Landowner Should Lease Land to a Solar Farm

If you live in VA, MD, NJ, NY, PA, MI, IL, OH, CO, TX, NM, or CA, here's how you can benefit from leasing your land for community solar farm development.

By: Pivot Energy

September 16, 2019

6 Reasons Why Community Solar is Good for New Mexicans

Author: Jon Sullivan VP of Project Development   New Mexico is one of a handful of states trying to implement a community solar program. If legislators and stakeholders are successful, then opportunities will abound for New Mexican’s to benefit from the New Mexico Community Solar Act and the solar industry in general. The first major…

By: Pivot Energy

September 9, 2019

Colorado Community Solar Market Overview

Today, community solar feels like the logical end for distributed clean energy – build large offsite solar arrays, let multiple households, companies, municipalities, and others subscribe to the capacity, and receive bill credits on the generation. However, only a short while ago, this concept was wildly new and innovative. It was only in 2010 that…

By: Pivot Energy

September 2, 2019

Pivot Energy Awarded 25 Megawatts of Community Solar Capacity in Colorado

Pivot Energy catapults to No. 1 community solar developer in Colorado DENVER, Colorado (August 6, 2019) — Today, Pivot Energy announced it has been awarded 25 megawatts (MWs) of new community solar energy capacity through Xcel Energy’s 2019 Solar*Rewards Community request for proposal (RFP). The award increases Pivot’s Colorado community solar portfolio to nearly 50…

By: Pivot Energy

August 6, 2019

SunCentral Quickly Growing as Industry Preferred Community Solar Cloud Platform

Late last year, we released SunCentral, a proprietary cloud platform service designed to help project developers, customers, and utilities set up and operate successful community solar programs and assets. As project developers ourselves, we saw a critical need in the market for a community solar management platform that provides infrastructure robust enough to manage the…

By: Pivot Energy

July 16, 2019

Pivot Energy Awarded 11 Community Solar Projects in Illinois

Projects will provide enough clean energy to power 4,500 Illinois households. Springfield, IL (May 16, 2019) — Today, Pivot Energy, a national solar developer, announced it has been awarded 11 community solar projects totaling approximately 29.36 MW(dc) of new solar capacity through the Illinois Adjustable Block Lottery Program. The projects will provide clean and affordable solar energy to…

By: Pivot Energy

May 16, 2019

Part 4: The Wild, Wild (Mid)West: ARES and Credit Rates

By: Kacie Peters Director of Business Development In the classic Western movie troupe, two men stare down each other at high noon. “This town isn’t big enough for the two of us,” one says to the other. The encounter typically ends poorly for one of the participants. In Illinois, those two players are the Alternative…

By: Pivot Energy

April 18, 2019

Part 3: The Wild, Wild (Mid)West: Subscription Rate Design

By: Kacie Peters Director of Business Development Gold is a huge motivator. During the gold rush, hundreds of thousands headed west to strike it rich. But not everyone made a fortune in the gold rush, and not every community solar developer in Illinois will either. Rate design and credit offsets are particularly complex in the…

By: Pivot Energy

April 11, 2019

Pivot Energy Named 2019 Community Solar Project of the Year

The Colorado Solar and Storage Association (COSSA) has named Pivot Energy the 2019 Community Solar Project of the Year winner for their Garfield County Housing Authority community solar garden! Now, in their second year, the awards honor the individuals, projects and products behind the Mountain West’s successful solar and energy storage industries. Chosen by an independent panel…

By: Pivot Energy

April 10, 2019

Part 2: The Wild, Wild (Mid)West: Learning the Lessons of a Crowded Energy Market

By: Kacie Peters Director of Business Development In part 1 of this blog series, I likened the rapid growth in community solar in IL to a Wild West town with a colorful cast of characters and its own style of law. And, if you are still thinking about staking ground in this boomtown, you’ll need…

By: Pivot Energy

April 3, 2019

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