Tag Archives: colorado
Confimed Shrinkage: Solar Venture Capital Funding
The amount of venture capital (VC)—early-stage funding with higher risks, but high potential returns—going to solar companies continues to shrink, according to a new report from Mercom Capital Group. The report found that solar venture capital in the first quarter of 2013 fell to $126 million, almost a third of the $324 million in the [...]
SolarCity Helps Walgreens Go Solar in Colorado
Walgreens and SolarCity will join forces to install solar systems at 22 drugstores across Colorado, the equivalent of planting more than 25,000 trees over the next two decades. Today marked the completion of the first Colorado drugstore: the Aurora Walgreens on E. Smokey Hill Road and Aurora Parkway. The achievement was celebrated with a ribbon-cutting [...]
Lakewood Colorado Becomes Solar Friendly
A quickly growing number of cities along Colorado’s Front Range are attaining the status of “Solar Friendly Community.” On March 22, Lakewood became the latest, achieving a silver level certification under the program. The certification means that the city has taken steps on the Solar Friendly Communities roadmap to make it faster and easier for [...]
Can First Solar Save Abound Solar?
Last month the Denver Post revealed that the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment ordered Abound Solar to clean up what it now considers hazardous waste at its Colorado facilities across the front range. The chief hazardous material in Abound’s solar modules is cadmium, a probable human carcinogen, that’s used in CdTe modules, like [...]
SolarReviews: Improving the Solar Experience for Consumers and Installers
SolarReviews, a recently launched consumer reviews website dedicated to the solar industry, has unveiled a customer engagement model designed to improve the solar experience for consumers and installers. Visitors to the website are able to search for installers who serve their area, view installer profiles, read independent customer reviews, and request a solar quote from [...]
R.I.P: Ampulse Solar
Solar startup Ampulse of Golden, Colorado is winding down its operations, according to sources. Calls to the CEO and the firm’s VC investors have not been returned. When we reported on the 150+ VC-funded solar startups in the last few years, we were clear that the majority would not survive and the shakeout would be [...]
Denver: The First ‘Solar Friendly Community’
Thanks to Denver’s efforts to make it easier for residents to go solar, the Mile High City became the first city awarded Solar Friendly Community status, by the synonymous nonprofit. By speeding and lowering the costs for permitting of solar in Denver City and County, among other efforts, the city achieved recognition with the second-highest [...]
Abound Solar’s Problems Continue in Colorado
Following Abound Solar’s bankruptcy filing earlier this year, Weld County, Col., District Attorney Ken Buck launched an investigation into whether the company committed fraud and some other allegations. The company is being investigated over whether or not the company knowingly sold defective photovoltaic modules. At this point no charges have been filed against the company [...]
Boulder Colorado Schools Go Solar
Solar panels installed on the roofs of 14 schools in Colorado’s Boulder Valley school district are now generating 1.4 megawatts of electricity while saving money for education. In one of the biggest solar projects for a school district, half the schools now run on solar – 30 in total. SolarCity installed (and owns) the 5,000 solar panels on the 14 roofs [...]