Community solar was built around the idea of a virtual and offsite clean energy service for its customers. Eliminating the high cost and physical installation of solar panels was primarily intended to open access to solar energy for those unable to...
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Author: David Ganske
Two Years Later: What’s New with SunCentral?
Community solar is often a difficult concept for customers to fully understand. The idea of how a “solar subscription” provides clean energy to the grid and savings to the subscriber is a lot to explain. Walking customers through the process...
SunCentral Quickly Growing as Industry Preferred Community Solar Cloud Platform
In November 2018, Pivot Energy expanded our services with the launch of our community solar customer management cloud platform, SunCentral. SunCentral was designed to improve the customer experience for community solar subscribers, and optimize the...
Part 4: The Wild, Wild (Mid)West: ARES and Credit Rates
In the classic Western movie troupe, two men stare down each other at high noon. “This town isn’t big enough for the two of us,” one says to the other. The encounter typically ends poorly for one of the participants.
Part 3: The Wild, Wild (Mid)West: Subscription Rate Design
Rate design and credit offsets are particularly complex in the Illinois market, and without knowing how to set the subscription value, you could be creating a product that customers don’t want or one that crushes the returns for the project… In...
Part 2: The Wild, Wild (Mid)West: Learning the Lessons of a Crowded Energy Market
In part two of “The Wild, Wild (Mid)West: Community Solar in IL”, Kacie Peters, Director of Business Development, discusses how we can learn from past mistakes in the energy market to make community solar a sustainable, long-term energy solution.
Introducing: The Wild, Wild (Mid)West: Community Solar in Illinois
The community solar market in IL is expected to grow from a couple of pilot projects to 200 MW in just two years. What impacts will this have on the competitive energy markets, on consumers, and for developers?
Part 1: The Wild, Wild (Mid)West: Community Solar in Ilinois
As of Q4 2018, Illinois had around 100 MW of solar in the entire state. In the next five years, the amount of solar capacity installed in Illinois is expected to grow by more than 1,700%, to 1,600 MW according to SEIA. In part one of this four-part...