Installers First, Always. Over the past year, the team as CommonBond has worked to understand how to make lending for solar installers easier, faster and cheaper. That culminated in the public announcement that CommonBond has started serving the solar market and wants you, the installer, to learn more about the offerings that are available. To learn more about the CommonBond platform and products, contact us here. 

• Bloomberg: Biden Is Set to Meet With Utilities in New Push for Climate Spending
• Reuters: Oil and gas bankers confront their own energy transition
• Wall Street Journal: Where Is There More Lithium to Power Cars and Phones? Beneath a California Lake.
• Utility Dive: As states ramp up storage targets, policy maneuvering becomes key
• CNN: US Army releases first climate strategy with goal to reach net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050
• Axios: Climate insurance startup kWh raises $20M
• Energy Storage News: GE Renewable Energy opens renewables, energy storage, integration tech factory in Chennai, India
• Canary Media: Biggest solar farm in Louisiana gets warm welcome from local community
• PV-Magazine: OhmConnect now selling electricity in Texas, not just saving it

Opinion

• Solar Builder: Community solar forecasts increase, but interconnection challenges loom

Best, Yann

Installers First, Always. Over the past year, the team as CommonBond has worked to understand how to make lending for solar installers easier, faster and cheaper. That culminated in the public announcement that CommonBond has started serving the solar market and wants you, the installer, to learn more about the offerings that are available. To learn more about the CommonBond platform and products, contact us here. 

• Axios: Corporate net-zero pledges have a long way to go
• Utility Dive: Microsoft, Google, other corporate buyers get creative as demand for renewable energy spikes
• Energy Storage News: ‘Frequency response revenues hit all-time-highs,’ UK battery storage investor Gore Street says
• Canary Media: Adding solar to California apartments could get easier — if regulators go along
• PV-Magazine: Recycled silicon used in 19.7% efficient PERC solar cells
• Solar Power World: IREC helps small Puerto Rican community procure 75-kW solar microgrid

Opinion

• RMI: Funding Our Future – The EV Transition Requires Infrastructure that Inspires Confidence and Powers All Communities

Best, Yann

Installers First, Always. Over the past year, the team as CommonBond has worked to understand how to make lending for solar installers easier, faster and cheaper. That culminated in the public announcement that CommonBond has started serving the solar market and wants you, the installer, to learn more about the offerings that are available. To learn more about the CommonBond platform and products, contact us here. 

• Reuters: China says U.S. tariff extension on solar products hurts new energy trade
• Axios: A roadway will charge your EV while you’re driving
• Solar Builder: CPUC delays NEM 3.0 decision indefinitely
• Solar Power World: DTE Energy soliciting 500 MW of RFPs for renewable energy projects
• Canary Media: What you need to know about minerals and the clean energy transition
• Utility Dive: Distributed energy is poised to take center stage in 2022, but policymakers and regulators must step up
• WFSU: Legislation that would change Florida’s rooftop solar industry gets pushback

Opinion

• Bloomberg: Jay Powell May Be the Most Important Climate Decision-Maker

Best, Yann

Installers First, Always. Over the past year, the team as CommonBond has worked to understand how to make lending for solar installers easier, faster and cheaper. That culminated in the public announcement that CommonBond has started serving the solar market and wants you, the installer, to learn more about the offerings that are available. To learn more about the CommonBond platform and products, contact us here. 

• Reuters: California delays decision on rooftop solar policy reform
• Solar Builder: CommonBond, best known for student lending, launches solar financing business
• PV-Magazine: SolarAPP+ permitting software reduces project times by 12 days on average in pilot
• Tampa Bay: Florida House offers compromise to more rooftop solar users
• Utility Dive: Appeals court decision opens door to sue public power utilities for rooftop solar fees under antitrust law
• Bloomberg: Airstream’s Electric Trailer Concept Can Run Off-Grid for Weeks
• Axios: Winter storms test Texas’ electrical grid
• RMI: The Hidden Costs of Keeping Gas Plants Online in Texas and Beyond

Opinion

• Canary Media: Will California finally fix its community solar programs?

Best, Yann