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

By |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?

By |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

Innovation in Response to Solar Demand

By |2025-06-18T14:12:18-04:00May 30th, 2016|Industry|

After Supreme Court’s Stay on The Clean Power Plan Last week SolUnesco presented on a panel at Solar Power Southeast in Atlanta, Georgia (Click here to download presentation).  The panel focused on the trajectory for solar after the Supreme Court’s Stay on the Clean Power Plan (CPP) including the legal merits of the suit, and the impact on the economics, policy, and market trends. Does the Supreme Court’s Stay mean a slower pace for the development of renewables going forward?

Southeastern Utilities Take the Reins on Solar Development

By |2025-06-18T11:35:32-04:00May 16th, 2016|Southeast|

Leading the Charge Utilities in southern states are evolving towards a renewable future by embracing their solar energy potential and developing beyond federal renewable energy requirements. Major utilities are beginning to step up and procure or build solar without the requirements of a state Renewable Portfolio Standards (RPS) or other incentives. GTM refers to this market trend as ‘voluntary procurement’ (voluntary procurement is defined as the utility either purchasing the energy and environmental attributes from a third-party or owning the

The Solar Value Chain: a Study in Competitive Destruction

By |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.

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