Electricity
Five Reasons Your Company Should Buy Off-site Renewables in 2017
Guest author Scott Macmurdo is a sustainability specialist with NRG Energy, which is a founding sponsor of the Business Renewables Center. Guest author Patrick Molloy is a financial analyst at the Business Renewables Center. Corporate interest in renewable energy is skyrocketing as companies realize that off-site projects can offer the flexibility…
Report Release: Financing Community-Scale Solar
Download Financing Community-Scale Solar here. Effective financing approaches have been fundamental to the solar industry’s exponential growth over the past 15 years. The first solar power purchase agreement (PPA) in the early 2000s enabled customers to spread their upfront costs for solar over time, just as…
Eight Areas of Electricity Innovation to Watch in 2017
It’s 2017 and we have a lot to look forward to in the electricity sector this year. While many of us take a moment to reflect on the accomplishments of 2016, there are just as many of us who are thinking about the challenges ahead. For the past five years,…
Community-Scale Solar Costs: 3 Reasons to Take Heart
Solar PV installations had a banner year in 2016, and market participants, analysts, and investors took stock of the results, including installed costs and forward-looking price projections. While many studies show the cost of solar continuing to decline, our analysis and field experience suggest that evaluators…
Exploring What Is Market Standard on Corporate PPAs
Corporate procurement has emerged as one of the most exciting trends in renewable energy: corporate (nonutility) buyers have brought over seven gigawatts (GW) of additional renewables online in the U.S. and Mexico in the past seven years, and Google recently announced it will be 100 percent renewable in 2017, with…