Powerfin Partners

A good article from the Austin Chronicle on PowerFin's community solar development in East Austin, on how it will be made affordable to low-income residents by Austin Energy.

Austin Energy’s New Low-Income Solar Deal Utility wants to enact a heavily reduced rate for those enrolled in its customer assistance program

Great write-up on Slate.com about our program with CPS Energy:

Take Our Solar Panels, Please! San Antonio’s Brilliant New Business Model for Renewable Energy. The business model surrounding rooftop solar has changed dramatically in the past decade. Several years ago early adopters had to spend a lot of money to buy expensive home systems—with no hope of recouping their investments. As prices of silicon panels came down, homeowners in the next wave could look...

Catching up on our summer reading and finding out about a study from UC Berkeley that says the specific location of distributed solar can provide a big benefit for a utility's circuits:
http://www.greentechmedia.com/articles/read/solars-value-for-grid-circuits-not-much-on-average-but-huge-for-a-handful

Solar’s Value for Grid Circuits: Not Much on Average, but Huge for a Handful : Greentech Media UC Berkeley research finds that well-placed PV is yielding big savings on PG&E’s distribution grid.

Solar as a grid resource? You bet - several TX utilities are headed in the right direction.

http://www.greentechmedia.com/articles/read/how-to-deploy-solar-as-a-grid-resource

How Utilities and Solar Developers Can Deploy PV as a Grid Resource : Greentech Media RMI’s James Sherwood outlines four ways to make solar a grid asset.

Well written article about innovative solar models. CPS Energy is moving in this direction with their new "Rent the Roof" program. In addition to the operational value referenced in the article, CPS Energy is bringing the benefits of roof top solar to underserved communities.

How to Deploy Solar as a Grid Resource There’s an opportunity to use distributed PV to better utilize the existing electricity system, which not only makes that PV more valuable to the...