Lithia Motors runs more than 450 business units across three countries. It's the largest automotive retailer in the United States. And like every company with a footprint that size, it is concerned about energy. Carson Bristol is Lithia's Program Manager for Energy...
For most people exploring solar and battery storage for their company, this operational question often looms large: once this system is built, what does my team have to do? The fear is that owning an energy asset means inheriting an ongoing technical burden. The...
The Solar Efficiency Argument Has a Dollar Value, and Its Not Big The case for waiting on solar technology rests on the observation that panel efficiency tends to improve over time, which is accurate. The rate of improvement is approximately half a percent per year in...
A conversation with Erik Underwood of Basis Climate and James Coombes of Conductor Solar When the Inflation Reduction Act passed in 2022, Erik Underwood and his co-founder read the legislation, saw the part about tax credit transferability, looked at each other, and...
Behind-the-meter energy systems are entering a new phase—one defined by optimization, institutional investment, and state-level incentives filling federal gaps. Here's what energy decision-makers need to know heading into 2026. For the third time, Bill...
Insights from our recent webinar about monetizing solar and storage featuring Regency Centers, Kire Builders, and Ivy Energy. For years, commercial real estate owners interested in onsite solar have defaulted to the simplest path: lease your roof to a third-party...
The electricity landscape we’ve known for decades is experiencing what we’re calling a “perfect storm” of challenges. After two decades of flat energy demand, we’re witnessing a steep incline that’s colliding with a grid that was largely built in the 1960s and 70s....
Despite widespread concerns that the "One Big Beautiful Bill Act" will devastate the onsite energy market, a deeper analysis reveals a fundamentally different story—one of opportunity disguised as disruption. Headlines focus on the acceleration of the solar tax credit...
We’ve rolled out several new platform features that enable efficient, nuanced management of large portfolios of sites within an organization where there are multiple different user types. With these updates, cross-functional teams can easily access certain portfolios,...
