Articles from Common Energy

Collins Aerospace, an RTX (NYSERTX) business, and Common Energy, a leading community solar provider, today announced a partnership to support a portfolio of four new community solar projects across the greater Portland area. In aggregate, the projects have a capacity of 12 megawatts and will generate 17 million kilowatt hours of clean energy each year. Clean electricity from the projects will flow directly to the electric grid and replace fossil fuel generation, thereby lowering carbon emissions and benefiting the broader Portland community. The projects will be owned and operated by Luminace, a wholly owned subsidiary of Brookfield Renewables.

Community solar provider Common Energy today announced that it has raised a new round of funding, providing the business with additional capital to continue its expansion. The new funding will support growth in existing markets, and expansion into emerging markets including California, New Mexico, Ohio and Pennsylvania. Common Energy currently manages community solar projects in the nine largest state markets, for the majority of the industry’s largest project owners.

Community solar provider Common Energy today announced key competitive wins across multiple states including Illinois, Maryland and Oregon. These transactions expand Common Energy’s client base of developers, which now includes five of the leading community solar developers/IPPs in the country. Under the agreements, Common Energy will acquire subscribers for the projects, and manage the subscriptions under long-term management contracts.

Microsoft, Nike and Common Energy today announced that they have partnered to subscribe Standard Solar’s first community solar project in Oregon. The Skyward Community Solar project, located in Clackamas County, Oregon will generate 3.6 million kilowatt hours of clean energy each year, which will be fed into the broader electrical grid. Clean electricity from the project will replace fossil fuel generation and lower carbon emissions and pollution, benefiting the entire community.

Common Energy, one of the country’s leading community solar providers, today announced a $16.5 million investment by S2G Ventures, the direct investment team of Builders Vision, an impact platform dedicated to building a humane and healthy planet.

Common Energy, one of the country’s leading community solar providers, today announced the hiring of five key members of its leadership and operations teams. The new members are John Paul (JP) Lee, as Chief Operating Officer; Suzanne Wollman, as Senior Controller; Michael Windels, as Lead Project Accountant; Winston Hoy, as Lead Software Engineer; and Sam Adlakha, as Strategy and Operations Manager.

Bloomberg today expanded access to community solar projects managed by Common Energy to more than 4,800 of its employees based in New York City. Through Common Energy’s Clean Energy Benefit Program, Bloomberg employees based in the city can enroll to support new, local community solar projects. The New York City community solar projects will be owned and operated by UGE International, a global clean energy developer.

A new analysis of US greenhouse gas emissions and a framework for the United States to achieve Net Zero emissions is announced today. The study is the first of its kind to reverse engineer the latest emission data from the Environmental Protection Agency and present an integrated framework and pathway for the US to decarbonize its economy.

Common Energy, a leading community solar provider, today announced collaborations with Microsoft, LinkedIn, Corning, Akamai Technologies, and VMware to bring a new sustainability benefit to each companies’ employees.