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One Bill to Rule Them All Part 3: Does Net Billing Reduce Project Risk?

September 3 2020

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One Bill to Rule Them All Part 3: Does Net Billing Reduce Project Risk?

The promise of consolidated billing stands to enhance community solar by reducing the friction experienced by subscribers and providing asset owners with the infrastructure to produce stable cash flows.

By: Pivot Energy

September 3 2020

One Bill to Rule Them All Part 2: How Do We Manage Community Solar Today?

In order to understand what functions the utility can replace, we must first understand what management providers do today.

By: Pivot Energy

August 20 2020

One Bill to Rule Them All(?): Utility Consolidated Billing and the Future of Community Solar 

Part 1: Introduction Author: Kacie Peters To say that distributed solar has a storied history with utilities might be an understatement. After years of battles over net metering regulations, interconnection practices, and standby charges (to name a few), it would be fair to assume that the solar industry would be very hesitant to give a…

By: Pivot Energy

August 14 2020

How Software Services Can Ease Downturn Effects on Community Solar

Pairing community solar project development with a software platform helps standardize digital operations, and plan for long-term growth and change.

By: Pivot Energy

June 15 2020

Two Years Later: What’s New with SunCentral?

When we first launched SunCentral, the concept was simple: create an elegant cloud platform service designed to simplify realizing the value of community solar for all stakeholders: project developers, customers, and utilities alike. Since then, our offering has evolved into more than just a community solar management service helping project operators attract and retain subscribers,…

By: Pivot Energy

April 21 2020

LMI carve-outs aren’t really making community solar more equitable

Author: Kacie Peters Director, Business Development   Community solar is often idealized as the magic bullet for many of the issues associated with traditional solar – offering scale to reduce cost, delivering access to clean energy for 51% of the population that rents or lives in homes unsuitable for onsite solar installations, and providing increased…

By: Pivot Energy

October 4 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