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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
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
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 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
