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SolUnesco Launches Charitable Giving Program with First Initiative at Seneca Ridge Middle School

Charitable Giving, Company Update

SolUnesco Launches Charitable Giving Program with First Initiative at Seneca Ridge Middle School

By Lea Maamari|2025-06-18T15:44:45-04:00May 15th, 2018|Charitable Giving, Company Update|

Charitable Giving Program SolUnesco is excited to announce the official launch of our charitable giving program—the SolUnesco Charitable Giving Program. As a community citizen, we seek opportunities to share our values and success in communities where we do business and with organizations—either local bodies or branches of larger agencies—that are serving local constituents through their programs. We seek out partners who share our philosophy and core values of trust, passion, creativity, community, and expertise. It is in this spirit that

Community Engagement Wins Board Approval for SolUnesco’s Orange County Solar Project

Company Update, Virginia Solar

Community Engagement Wins Board Approval for SolUnesco’s Orange County Solar Project

By Francis Hodsoll|2025-06-18T15:04:08-04:00December 20th, 2017|Company Update, Virginia Solar|

Why Community Building? As solar developers, we believe in our mission and the positive impacts of our work. Even so, we should never assume that a community will embrace a new solar energy generating plant. Local permitting can be the most precarious stage of utility-scale solar development. It’s the only stage where the people who decide your project’s fate don’t follow a uniform rubric. A county official may be able to deny your project for any reason. As a result,

HODSOLL: Solar Power Southeast: Does Passion + Wisdom = Resilience?

Company Update, Industry, Southeast, Virginia Solar

HODSOLL: Solar Power Southeast: Does Passion + Wisdom = Resilience?

By Francis Hodsoll|2025-06-18T14:48:13-04:00May 31st, 2017|Company Update, Industry, Southeast, Virginia Solar|

Despite scary challenges: strength and optimism While the Suniva trade case—potentially a devastating price increase especially for utility-scale loomed largely, attendees eagerly packed presentations. The audience’s questions provided an interesting barometer to the psyche in the room. Participants focused on where we are going and how to get there. Further, the evolving business models continue to pry open market segments. We are tenacious! Even in markets dominated by utilities such as Florida Power & Light, some competitors have created interesting

SolUnesco Talks Solar Policy and Growth in Virginia

By Francis Hodsoll|2025-06-18T14:24:44-04:00July 18th, 2016|Company Update, Policy, Virginia Solar|

On Wednesday. July 13th, 2016, we presented at the Virginia Association of Assessing Officers (VAAO) Property Assessment Conference (Click here to download presentation). The association and their conferences provide continuing education to the Virginia community of assessors. We believe that maintaining a healthy dialogue with the professionals who determine land values for the purpose of tax assessments serves the solar industry well. Francis Hodsoll, CEO, presented on policies driving national solar markets and their application to the Virginia framework. He

The Solar Value Chain: a Study in Competitive Destruction

By Francis Hodsoll|2025-06-18T11:18:47-04:00December 12th, 2015|Company Update|

InfoCast Energy Project Finance conference SolUnesco presented at the New York InfoCast Energy Project Finance conference December 10th. Our presentation the Economics of Renewable Energy Business Models focused on the trends impacting margins along the value chain. If you have earned a living in solar for more than a few years, you have seen innovation, unsustainable margins and then dramatic margin compression. I don’t think anyone is surprised given low barriers to entry and generally commodity like products and services.

UVA Professor Finds Numerous Efforts with and Reverses the Findings of a Report Critical of EPA’s Clean Power Plan

By SolUMarketing|2025-06-18T11:10:35-04:00July 30th, 2015|Company Update|

Last week, UVA Professor William Shobe, Ph.D. released a report that assessed the methodologies, assumptions and conclusions in a report critical of the Clean Power Plan. Virginia’s Center for Coal and Energy Research (CCER) produced a report as part of the Governor’s Energy Plan that concluded that a large amount of money would be needed to change the energy infrastructure in Virginia to comply with the Clean Power Plan, and the consequences of this change would be negative. In his