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Solar & Storage

Solar Project Development

What it takes to site, permit, finance, and build a solar project today.

ExplainerJun 24, 2026· 8 min read
Storage attachment just became a financing requirement, not an option

A $525 million California close and Utah's largest solar-plus-storage project going live both point to the same shift — lenders and offtakers increasingly expect storage attached to solar, not as an upgrade but as a baseline requirement.

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