| Date | Title | Description |
| 28.06.2024 | Automaker Geely's Latest EV Battery Can Last up to 50 Years, 3,500 Cycles | By John Lopez
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Geely Auto Group has revealed its latest self-developed electric vehicle (EV) battery, ... |
| 07.05.2024 | FranklinWH Exceeds 2,000 Installers, Paving the Way for Homeowner Energy Freedom | Leader in Whole-Home Energy Management Solutions Sees Rapid Expansion Fueled by Product Innovation and Superior Customers Service
SAN JOSE, Calif., May 7, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- FranklinWH Energy Storage Inc. (FranklinWH), a leader in whole-h... |
| 18.03.2024 | Vikram Aggarwal joins the Conductor Solar Board of Directors | Vikram Aggarwal, founder of EnergySage
Conductor Solar adds a key solar marketplace leader to its Board
Solar’s middle market is poised for massive growth over the next ten years and Conductor Solar will be vital for this industry to handle... |
| 22.02.2024 | Home solar prices decreased in 2023, and more insights from EnergySage Marketplace Report | Home solar prices decreased in 2023, and more insights from EnergySage Marketplace Report
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Home solar installations slowed in 2023, but per Watt prices decr... |
| 01.12.2023 | Случайное открытие, которое может стать будущим энергетики | Энергия из воздуха — звучит как что-то из научной фантастики. Одно из сумасшедших изобретений Николы Теслы, о котором он успел рассказать перед смертью. Но это наша реальность в 2023 году. Открытие, сделанное учеными из Массачусетского унив... |
| 07.09.2023 | Residential solar average payback period is 8.3 years, said EnergySage | Residential solar and storage marketplace and informational site EnergySage has released its market intelligence report for June 2022 to July 2023, highlighting a shifting market under raised interest rates. The report tracks million of dat... |
| 03.04.2023 | 5 Ways Solar Energy Is Becoming More Affordable for Consumers | Noah Miller, Tech Times 03 April 2023, 12:04 pm
(Photo : Bill Mead on Unsplash)
Solar energy is a hot topic. In the past, it has remained stubbornly expensive, especially when it comes to setting up a new solar power system.
Fortunately, ov... |
| 08.03.2023 | How NEM 3.0 could change California’s clean energy landscape | California’s electricity bills are already about 5% higher than the national average, and rising. Rate hikes went into effect in January and Southern California Edison proposed another 4.4% increase that would be effective this summer.
Cali... |
| 25.10.2022 | 50 states of solar incentives: Florida | Florida has done well to establish itself as a large market for solar PV. The industry employed nearly 12,000 people in 2021 in the state, and it is home to 378 solar companies, the majority of which are installers and developers. In 2021, ... |
| 10.05.2022 | Electrifying Everything: Buildings, Construction and the Future of Sustainable Infrastructure | Electrification is a key theme to Energize’s investment thesis. We invest in software and business model innovations, many of which directly contribute solutions towards decarbonization by means of electrification. In this blog series, we’l... |
| 02.05.2022 | Top solar installer challenges right now include supply chain, lack of trained labor | Top solar installer challenges right now include supply chain, lack of trained labor
By SB Staff May 2, 2022 View Profile
Three out of five of solar installers say that their businesses were harmed in 2021 due to supply chain issues, accord... |
| 02.05.2022 | Lack of trained workers, ITC uncertainty, supply chain woes cited as challenges for US solar installers | EnergySage and NABCEP released the results of the seventh annual Solar Installer Survey. Over 500 residential and commercial installers across the country participated in this year’s survey, and it captures key observations about the curren... |
| 17.03.2022 | EnergySage solar market report finds that as prices rise, customer choice expands | EnergySage released its fourteenth semi-annual Solar Marketplace Intel Report, which covers pricing, equipment, and consumer preference trends in the US residential solar and energy storage industries. The data in the report comes from quot... |
| 22.02.2022 | Grata raises $25 million to help private equity firms find their next investment | This is the web version of Term Sheet, a daily newsletter on the biggest deals and dealmakers. Sign up to get it delivered free to your inbox.
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| 22.02.2022 | Grata raises $25 million to help private equity firms find their next investment | This is the web version of Term Sheet, a daily newsletter on the biggest deals and dealmakers. Sign up to get it delivered free to your inbox.
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| 18.02.2022 | New Boston-based community solar company launches | A new community solar provider has opened up shop in Boston. Perch Energy is a spinoff, riding in on the waves of its predecessor BlueWave Solar. Perch will build on its proven community solar services and management platform, and said it p... |
| 03.02.2022 | California utilities commission won’t vote on controversial rooftop solar bill ‘until further notice’ | A vote on a controversial proposal that would dramatically change the rules for the roughly 1.3 million rooftop solar customers in California will not be held Feb. 10 — the next scheduled voting meeting of the California Public Utilities Co... |
| 21.01.2022 | Utilities commission delays vote on controversial California solar proposal | In an unsurprising move, the California Public Utilities Commission has postponed a vote on a controversial proposal that would dramatically change the way the state’s 1.3 million rooftop solar customers get compensated when their systems p... |
| 23.12.2021 | NEM 3.0 erodes solar value, makes batteries essential, and weakens grid flexibility in California | Proposed changes to California’s net-metering program, the process by which the utility credits a customer’s bill for exporting excess solar production to the grid, is expected to harshly erode the value of rooftop residential solar without... |
| 17.08.2021 | EGEB: Here are the 3 biggest trends in rooftop solar and battery storage | In today’s Electrek Green Energy Brief (EGEB):
Three standout solar, storage, and financing trends emerged between July 2020 and June 2021.
India reaches a milestone of 100 gigawatts of clean energy.
UnderstandSolar is a free service that l... |
| 19.07.2021 | Solar 101: How to pay for your rooftop solar investment | You’ve got a contractor, you found your solar panels and inverter, you understand the taxes, you’ve got the project priced, and you’re ready to take care of your solar power plant for the long haul. How’s that for a Solar 101?
The next ques... |
| 07.05.2021 | Solar 101: How to find … and evaluate … a solar contractor for your rooftop project | The first articles of our Solar 101 series, (“Is my roof ready for solar?”) and (“Attaching your solar system to your roof”) examined how the age and physical characteristics of a roof affect the design and payback of a prospective solar sy... |
| 18.02.2021 | Comparison Shopping For Power From Community Solar Farms | Solar panelsgetty |
| 18.02.2021 | Traffic To Rooftop Solar Websites Surges As Texans Seek Freedom From Grid | A solar and battery customer in Houston was able to keep the lights on during widespread power ... [+] outages in Texas. Robert Soldat |
| 08.02.2021 | Job Postings For Solar Work Up Sharply During Pandemic, Data Shows | A worker for Sunrun installs solar panels on the roof of a home in Granada Hills, California. The ... [+] pandemic has resulted in growing demand for rooftop solar, data shows. Los Angeles Times via Getty Images |
| 15.01.2021 | Product roundup: New year and 2021 CES produce myriad announcements | With the new year came a bunch of new clean energy-related product announcements. Several of them were unveiled at the 2021 CES tradeshow, which was held virtually on January 11-14.
To stay up to date on what’s new out there from the first ... |
| 18.12.2020 | SunPower : Improves Solar Financing Options | Many people drawn to home solar power worry about how to pay for it. Fortunately, SunPower offers great options for funding this clean form of energy, and newly added, more diverse offerings are making the financing forecast even sunnier.
P... |
| 28.10.2020 | One size does not fit all female residential solar adopters | Six years ago, pioneering solar market research showed that women often function as the chief purchasing officer in their homes. The implication: solar companies should learn more about female buyers and tailor more customer experiences for... |
| 29.09.2020 | The Coming Cloud War Isn’t About Market Share | At least once a quarter we are bombarded with press releases about how public cloud providers are catching up to, or overtaking, perennial leader Amazon Web Services in terms of market share or quarterly revenue trends. A good example is th... |
| 13.04.2020 | How Big Oil’s COVID-19 Near-Death Experience May Be A Preview Of The Industry’s Ultimate Demise | Saudi Energy Minister Khalid al-Falih speaks to the press during a one-day OPEC+ group meeting ... [+] in the Saudi city of Jeddah on May 19, 2019. (Photo AMER HILABI)AFP via Getty Images |
| 06.04.2020 | Solar PV Design Software and Sales Tool Buyer’s Guide | The coronavirus crisis is having a huge impact on solar installation business and project timelines. It’s also served to highlight areas in the solar PV sales proposal, permitting and design process that many solar companies could improve o... |
| 16.01.2020 | Have you taken the EnergySage solar installer survey? | Now in its fifth year, EnergySage has once again partnered with NABCEP to provide a solar installer survey designed to gauge the perspectives of business people at U.S. solar installation companies.
EnergySage’s online platform offers home ... |
| 15.08.2019 | Spending: How to pay for solar panels | Solar panels today are not only cheaper and more powerful than they were years ago, but homeowners now have more options to pay for them.
A decade ago, a residential system cost $40,000 to $60,000, and solar financing wasn’t available, says... |
| 08.08.2019 | Spending: Solar heats up | Homeowners have been installing solar panels at a record pace, taking advantage of falling prices and a tax credit, which is slated to be phased out by 2022.
Like computer chips, solar panels are getting more powerful, more efficient and ch... |
| 11.07.2019 | EnergySage launches Buyer’s Guide for solar shoppers to easily compare PV panels, inverters, batteries | EnergySage debuted a new Buyer’s Guide this week. The goal is to equip consumers and the industry with easily sort and filter info on solar equipment (panels, inverters, batteries) and compare them based on quality ratings, aesthetics, perf... |
| 09.07.2019 | EnergySage educates with solar buyer’s guide | A considerable barrier for the expansion of residential solar is the relatively low level of purchasing knowledge possessed by the average consumer. For most people, the first quote they get for an installation on their roof is the first qu... |
| 09.01.2019 | Have you taken EnergySage’s installer survey? | If you haven’t heard of EnergySage, you should. The online platform offers home and business owners apples-to-apples comparisons of bids for PV systems from vetted installers – like AirBNB for getting rooftop solar.
But that’s not all. By t... |
| 11.10.2018 | Going Solar Part 1: How to Plan a Successful Solar Panel Project | There are a lot of great reasons to install solar panels. We’re not going to cover all the pros and cons in this article, but if you have decided to go forward or are looking for tools to help you make that decision, we offer some hard-earn... |
| 01.10.2018 | EnergySage finds $236 million tax on solar due to Section 201 tariffs | In the six months since the implementation of the section 201 tariffs, Americans have seen a $236.5 million tax on installing solar, according to EnergySage’s most recent Solar Marketplace Intel Report, which covers trends in the market fro... |
| 14.09.2018 | Spending: 5 tips to protect your home, or save money | For many people, a house is their largest investment. Here are five tips to protect -- or save money on -- that investment.
Contest your property tax assessment
Start by checking the property record card at your assessor’s office, which may... |
| 27.07.2018 | This isn’t your parents’ SolarEdge | “Module level power optmizers are meant for residential rooftops. Utility scale has no need for module level data – who’s got time for that? And commercial rooftops are big squares – no trees! Besides – optimizers are too expensive. We’re c... |
| 11.07.2018 | Solar loans overtake third-party as dominant residential solar model | The U.S. residential solar market has seen many twist and turns in the past few years, with two of the three largest installers scaling back their ambitions and losing market share in the wake of their own internal struggles.
As this happen... |
| 09.04.2018 | Residential solar buying trends: Quality matters, storage interest increases | Residential solar buying trends: Quality matters, storage interest increases
By Chris Crowell April 9, 2018 View Profile
At Bloomberg’s Future of Energy Summit in New York, EnergySage released its latest semiannual Solar Marketplace Intel R... |
| 05.04.2018 | Sunlight Financial raises $225M for residential solar loans | Sunlight Financial has been very successful raising money in recent years. In January of this year the company raised $400M and in May of last year it raised $500M, after securing $130M a few months earlier in 2017 to help it expand nationw... |
| 09.01.2018 | CollectiveSun and EnergySage Unlock Solar for Nonprofits | CollectiveSun, the only company dedicated exclusively to helping nonprofits and tax exempt organizations fund solar projects, today announced it has teamed up with EnergySage, the nation’s leading online comparison-shopping marketplace for ... |
| 17.11.2017 | Renovate America launches online solar, home improvement marketplace | Americans are used to buying things online. When we go to buy plane tickets or hotels, we usually don’t drive to the local travel agency, and they certainly aren’t sold by door-to-door salespeople.
Yesterday Renovate America, the financing ... |
| 06.11.2017 | EnergySage, DSIRE team up for better solar system comparison shopping | EnergySage, DSIRE team up for better solar system comparison shopping
By Chris Crowell November 6, 2017 View Profile
The Database of State Incentives for Renewables and Efficiency (DSIRE) has a wealth of information on incentives and polici... |
| 06.07.2017 | Mass Solar Connect program enhances online solar shopping experience for home owners | To protect consumers and level the playing field between large and small solar installers, the Massachusetts Clean Energy Center (MassCEC) has chosen Mass Energy Consumers Alliance and EnergySage to administer the 2017 Mass Solar Connect pr... |
| 25.04.2017 | Sunnova uses portfolio to secure $615 million in funding | Finally – an antidote to the string of bankruptcies plaguing the residential solar installation market lately.
In stark contrast to competitors SunEdison and Sungevity, Sunnova used its portfolio to secure $615 million round of funding, spl... |
| 20.04.2017 | Wide landscape of solar loan providers in EnergySage market report (w/ charts) | At the end of 2016, the U.S. residential solar market completed a fundamental shift. As reported by GTM Research, during Q4 the portion of third-party solar – leases and power purchase agreements – fell below 50%, meaning that direct sales ... |
| 30.03.2017 | Group asks Oregon AG to investigate solar sales practices | After a deluge of good news in recent months – sky-high employment numbers, high-profile corporate installations and a potentially revolutionary solar-roofing product – one might think it’s time for the solar industry to have an extended mo... |
| 24.02.2017 | Sunlight Financial receives $130 million cash infusion | $130 million should allow Sun Financial to expand its residential-solar loan portfolio nationwide.
The cash infusion into the the New Jersey-based loan provider comes in the form of a partnership with Route 66 Ventures, an investment firm t... |
| 26.01.2017 | Installer survey finds robust competition in the U.S. market | Yesterday online solar marketplace EnergySage released results from its second annual solar installer survey, conducted in collaboration with pv magazine. The survey of more than 360 U.S. residential and commercial and industrial solar inst... |
| 25.11.2016 | EnergySage wisely enters community solar | EnergySage is expanding into the community-solar market, which some analysts say could reach 1.8 GW installed by 2020.
The company, long associated with connecting homeowners and pre-screened solar installers, launched its Community Solar M... |
| 20.07.2016 | Sustainable Jersey, EnergySage launch New Jersey Solar Challenge | This way to the solar challenge.
Sustainable Jersey announced a New Jersey statewide Solar Challenge program and invited municipalities to participate in order to promote adoption of solar energy at the community-level. The Sustainable Jers... |
| 25.05.2016 | The 'Expedia of Solar' Is Out Raising a $2M Round | After Boston cleantech startup EnergySage announced a first-of-its-kind partnership with the city of Cambridge last month, the so-called "Expedia of Solar" disclosed it's in the middle of raising a $2 million round.
EnergySage is ... |
| 09.05.2016 | The Solar Foundation, EnergySage partner on comparison-shopping solar marketplace | The Solar Foundation, EnergySage partner on comparison-shopping solar marketplace
By Chris Crowell May 9, 2016 View Profile
To advance a shared commitment to helping people make informed energy decisions, The Solar Foundation (TSF), an inde... |
| 05.04.2016 | EnergySage Report: Consumers value solar install price transparency | EnergySage Report: Consumers value solar install price transparency
By Chris Crowell April 5, 2016 View Profile
EnergySage published its second semi-annual Solar Marketplace Intel Report, providing further visibility into the residential so... |
| 08.03.2016 | Rhode Island utility launches solar shopping marketplace for customers | We like it when utilities work to provide their customers with the tools and resources they need to choose to go solar — and maybe even incentivize them to do so. Rhode Island electric customers of National Grid will soon have such a tool t... |
| 02.12.2015 | 9 Reasons Your Business Should Make the Switch to Solar Power | Solar power isn’t just the future — it’s the present. A new solar project is installed every two minutes, and more than 135,000 installations were completed within the first half of 2015 alone. Small businesses everywhere are embracing comm... |
| 14.10.2015 | EnergySage Report: Solar costs falling, installers not brand loyal, and more | EnergySage Report: Solar costs falling, installers not brand loyal, and more
By Chris Crowell October 14, 2015 View Profile
Yup, there is the answer
EnergySage is a solar marketplace that connects customers with solar installers and financi... |
| 28.05.2015 | North Carolina sees sustainable energy consumer push | Solar is still a fledgling industry in North Carolina, but two local entities are making a push to better inform consumers about the real costs of their utility energy and their options for implementing their own solar solutions.
First, the... |
| 22.05.2015 | Funding roundup - week ending 5/22/15 | Oradian, WePay, MuleSoft, Videopixie, OnboardIQ, Mobcrush, Taboola, Lookup, Metabiota, Centro, Fuze
Seed stage
Oradian, a developer of technology platforms for microfinance institutions, raised an undisclosed amount of seed funding from Cre... |
| 19.05.2015 | EnergySage Adds $1.5M for Solar Power Comparison-Shopping | A Boston startup that says it’s using the Web to boost adoption of solar power systems has just gotten a boost of its own.
EnergySage, which offers an online solar power marketplace that helps consumers and businesses to comparison shop, ha... |
| 19.05.2015 | Online Marketplace EnergySage Accelerates Company Growth | EnergySage is making a big splash this week. The online solar marketplace provider both detailed its massive growth to this point and announced plans to greatly accelerate further expansion.
On the expansion side, EnerygSage opened a $1.5 m... |
| 19.05.2015 | EnergySage Raises $1.5M in Series A Funding | EnergySage, a Boston, MA-based online solar energy marketplace, raised $1.5m in Series A funding.
The round was led by Launchpad Venture Group with participation from The New York Angels and the Clean Energy Venture Group. Combined with pre... |
| 14.06.2012 | EnergySage secures US$500,000 investment from DoE SunShot coffers to develop PV shopping platform | - |
| - | Here are 3 vital insights installers shared about the state of solar in 2021 | US Department of Energy-funded solar marketplace EnergySage and nonprofit accreditation body The North American Board of Certified Energy Practitioners (NABCEP) just released the results of the 2021 Solar Installer Survey, which polled more... |
| - | The homeowner basics of financing solar power for residential real estate | |
| - | Breaking: Florida governor Ron DeSantis vetoes awful solar net metering bill | Florida governor Ron DeSantis (R) vetoed a bill, which the state’s Republican-majority House and Senate passed, that would have slashed rooftop solar credits in the state. It would have denied many homeowners net metering in the Sunshine St... |
| - | Electrek green energy brief: 1.5GW RFP in AZ, Perovskite at 30% in two years (!?), Apple backing energy storage, more | Arizona County put out Request for Proposal (RFP) for 1.5GW of solar power – Personally, this is the largest RFP I’ve seen in the US. There are headlines for projects in the Middle East at 5GW, one in India at 7.5GW and China sorta has an R... |
| - | EGEB: Tesla part of offshore wind growing 53X in Massachusetts, get three bids save 8% on residential solar, more | Electrek Green Energy Brief: A daily technical, financial, and political review/analysis of important green energy news. Featured Image Source.
Bay State Wind Submits Bid to Build Massachusetts’ First Offshore Wind Farm – This offshore wind... |
| - | How smart home energy monitors could avert huge bills | During last week’s power crisis in Texas, prices surged to the market price cap of $9,000 per megawatt-hour for several days, resulting in some huge bills for a lot of homeowners. (To put that in perspective, the state’s seasonal average is... |
| - | EGEB: Here are the 3 biggest trends in rooftop solar and battery storage | In today’s Electrek Green Energy Brief (EGEB):
Three standout solar, storage, and financing trends emerged between July 2020 and June 2021.
India reaches a milestone of 100 gigawatts of clean energy.
UnderstandSolar is a free service that l... |
| - | EGEB: EV supporters respond to Saudi oil refinery attack, South Africa’s $11B green energy plan, more | In today’s Electrek Green Energy Brief (EGEB):
EV supporters tweet about the Saudi oil refinery drone attack.
South Africa kicks off a US$11 billion green-energy initiative.
A South Carolinian lists the benefits of solar energy for her stat... |
| - | EGEB: Greta Thunberg and George Monbiot’s new short film: ‘We need to stop burning fossil fuels’; more | In today’s Electrek Green Energy Brief (EGEB):
Activists Greta Thunberg and George Monbiot launch a short film about how to fight climate change.
The UK holds a $25 billion offshore wind farm auction.
EnergySage releases their 2019 consumer... |
| - | Tesla giving up residential solar leasing to be in the Florida ‘sunshine’ market – and it might be the company’s future | State of Florida law states only an approved and regulated electric utility is allowed to sell electricity to the public. The 1988 court case, PW Ventures, Inc. v. Nichols, clarified this position. With Tesla’s SolarCity announcing that the... |
| - | Energy Management making plays for the SmartHouse, and it might win it all | Much has been made about the coming SmartHome – it started with the Jetsons and their robots, however the reality has been a bit slow coming. Last week, EnergySage+WiseAir+Schneider launched an offer of $300 cash back if you install solar p... |
| - | Electrek green energy brief: More quotes means better solar pricing, ‘carbon tax’ Cohn, more | Big installers charge more, some people are ok with that, the solution is to get multiple quotes – Using Residential Solar PV Quote Data to Analyze the Relationship between Installer Pricing and Firm Size – The numbers roughly say;
Large in... |
| - | EGEB: The world’s most widely used green energy? Hydropower | Hydropower is revealed as the most widely used renewable power source around the world.
Here are three of the latest trends in solar and storage, according to online marketplace EnergySage.
A former fossil-fuel exec explains why he’s joined... |
| - | 84% of Florida voters support solar net metering, but Gov. DeSantis will gut it anyway | Florida governor Ron DeSantis (R) is expected to sign a bill after the state’s House and Senate passed it that would slash rooftop solar credits in the state. This would deny many homeowners net metering in the Sunshine State, and harm its ... |
| - | Elon Musk says Tesla may have to get into the lithium business because costs are so ‘insane’ | Elon Musk tweeted Tesla may get into the lithium mining and refining business directly and at scale because the cost of the metal, a key component in manufacturing batteries, have gotten so high.
“Price of lithium has gone to insane levels,... |
| - | EGEB: A new community solar marketplace launches in the US | In today’s Electrek Green Energy Brief (EGEB):
EnergySage launches a new community solar marketplace in the US so consumers can save money.
Sustainable lithium mining is becoming a requirement as battery demand grows.
UnderstandSolar is a f... |
