{"id":5740,"date":"2013-03-25T11:00:02","date_gmt":"2013-03-25T18:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/unrbep.org\/?p=5740"},"modified":"2013-03-25T11:00:02","modified_gmt":"2013-03-25T18:00:02","slug":"solarcity-expands-to-nevada","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/unrbep.org\/dealerportal\/solarcity-expands-to-nevada\/","title":{"rendered":"SolarCity Expands to Nevada"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.energymanagertoday.com\/solarcity-expands-to-nevada-090356\/\" target=\"_blank\">Energy Manager Today.com<\/a> by Linda Hardesty<\/em><\/p>\n<p>SolarCity plans to open a new location in Nevada, and expects to create hundreds of jobs in the state in the next several years.<\/p>\n<p>SolarCity says its expansion is due in large part to the efforts of Governor Brian Sandoval and the Nevada Office of Economic Development.<\/p>\n<p>The new location will initially house new expansions of key administrative divisions, including portions of the company\u2019s sales, asset management and customer care groups. SolarCity\u2019s first solar projects in the state are also underway. The company is building more than 100 solar projects in Nevada housing communities in partnership with Shea Homes.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nWhile SolarCity is expanding, last week Chinese solar manufacturer <a href=\"http:\/\/www.energymanagertoday.com\/wuxi-suntech-declares-bankruptcy-090308\/\" target=\"_blank\">Wuxi Suntech declared bankruptcy<\/a> and also announced it was closing its sole US manufacturing plant in Arizona due to import tariffs and global oversupply of solar modules.<\/p>\n<p>Since SolarCity is not a manufacturer of solar modules, it is not being negatively impacted by import tariffs and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.energymanagertoday.com\/cost-of-solar-declines-but-so-do-incentives-087342\/\" target=\"_blank\">benefits from oversupply of modules, which lowers prices<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>According to a SolarCity spokesman, the company deploys a variety of solar modules, including Yingli, Kyocera, Trina, Suniva and BenQ. \u201cWe generally consider ourselves panel agnostic,\u201d he said. \u201cA particular project\u2019s specifications, consumer preference, and supply usually drive considerations about the type of panels we use.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Nevada receives among the greatest amount of direct sunlight of any state in the US. Though the state hosts a handful of large solar power plants, its potential for distributed residential and commercial solar power generation is largely untapped, according to SolarCity.<\/p>\n<p>Nevada Senator Harry Reid in 2008 helped to pass an eight-year extension of the federal tax credits for residential and commercial solar installations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: Energy Manager Today.com by Linda Hardesty SolarCity plans to open a new location in Nevada, and expects to create hundreds of jobs in the state in the next several years. SolarCity says its expansion is due in large part to the efforts of Governor Brian Sandoval and the Nevada Office of Economic Development. The &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/unrbep.org\/dealerportal\/solarcity-expands-to-nevada\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">SolarCity Expands to Nevada<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7,15],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/unrbep.org\/dealerportal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5740"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/unrbep.org\/dealerportal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/unrbep.org\/dealerportal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unrbep.org\/dealerportal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unrbep.org\/dealerportal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5740"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/unrbep.org\/dealerportal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5740\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5742,"href":"https:\/\/unrbep.org\/dealerportal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5740\/revisions\/5742"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/unrbep.org\/dealerportal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unrbep.org\/dealerportal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unrbep.org\/dealerportal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}