| Date | Title | Description |
| 29.08.2025 | kWh Analytics launches new renewable energy insurance cover for severe storms | - |
| 15.01.2025 | US awards kWh Analytics US$500,000 to develop tax credit insurance product | - |
| 09.07.2024 | Найден способ повышения градоустойчивости солнечных панелей | Сильнейшие градовые бури разрушают солнечные фермы, но защитить их может быть проще, чем кажется.
Изменение климата делает ливни с градом более интенсивными, поэтому инженерам приходится искать новые решения для защиты панелей от дорогостоя... |
| 11.06.2024 | ‘Without data you’re really shooting in the dark’: Jason Kaminsky on kWh Analytics’ sixth annual Solar Risk Assessment | - |
| 20.05.2024 | Surveying the risk landscape of an emerging solar sector | As a fast-growing segment of the industry, floating solar is also a novel technology that comes with a variety of new operational risks. Bobby McFadden, kWh Analytics, Chris Bartle of Ciel & Terre and James Markos of Willis Towers Watso... |
| 15.05.2024 | Big Interview: kWh Analytics’ Jason Kaminsky on managing risk amid extreme weather events | - |
| 28.06.2023 | How to model PV yields in the face of wild weather | How to model PV yields in the face of wild weather
By Dej Knuckey June 28, 2023 " class="author-button">View Profile
For solar professionals, the weather isn’t boring small talk. Sunshine makes electrons flow, rain slows c... |
| 22.06.2023 | Top risks for solar assets: Financial modeling | The solar industry is forecast to build as much capacity in the next five years as it has over the previous two decades. As the industry matures, risk assessments support the build out of bankable projects that perform at a high level.
This... |
| 21.06.2023 | Top risks for solar assets: Extreme weather | The solar industry is forecast to build as much capacity in the next five years as it has over the previous two decades. As the industry matures, risk assessments support the build out of bankable projects that perform at a high level.
This... |
| 20.06.2023 | kWh Analytics: Top 12 solar project risks involve weather, modeling, operations | kWh Analytics: Top 12 solar project risks involve weather, modeling, operations
By SB Staff June 20, 2023 " class="author-button">View Profile
The top risks facing the solar industry are related to extreme weather, financi... |
| 11.04.2023 | #Solar100 Interview: Josh Jennings, The Galileo Of Renewable Property Insurance | In this #Solar100 interview, Isaac McLean, Head of Property at kWh Analytics, speaks with Josh Jennings, Head of Inland Marine and Property at Aspen Insurance. |
| 07.03.2023 | Solar costs rising: kWh Analytics finds a unique insurance solution | Solar costs rising: kWh Analytics finds a unique insurance solution
By SB Staff March 7, 2023 " class="author-button">View Profile
Climate insurance provider kWh Analytics has partnered with Pivot Energy LLC to provide Sol... |
| 27.02.2023 | Sizing up shortfalls: Underperforming assets are plaguing the solar industry | Sizing up shortfalls: Underperforming assets are plaguing the solar industry
By Dej Knuckey February 27, 2023 " class="author-button">View Profile
When it comes to solar asset performance, the finance industry disclaimer s... |
| 08.02.2023 | Solar project insurance no longer a ‘check the box’ issue amid potential coverage gap | Property insurance for a solar project, having been an easy “check the box” issue 10 years ago, is fast becoming a top credit item for securing financing from banks, according to the head of a data analytics and insurtech firm. There is als... |
| 08.12.2022 | kWh Analytics: Solar assets continued to underperform P50 estimates | kWh Analytics: Solar assets continued to underperform P50 estimates
By SB Staff December 8, 2022 " class="author-button">View Profile
Climate insurance and renewable energy risk management experts at kWh Analytics released... |
| 05.07.2022 | Modeling, inverters, and weather – oh my! | Fourteen groups, including kWh Analytics, have come together to release the 2022 Solar Risk Assessment (SRA). This document brings attention to the challenges that have resulted in reduced electricity generation at solar power facilities.
T... |
| 14.06.2022 | US solar remains beset by underperformance issues as capex costs on the rise | Utility-scale solar in the US remains plagued by underperformance issues as capex costs have risen for the “first time in decades”. |
| 05.04.2022 | Solar investments are scaling up, but inefficient O&M is weighing them down | As solar investments boom across North America, project developers and asset managers alike are under increasing pressure to deliver ever-higher returns, making long-term O&M strategies a necessity for ensuring optimal performance. But ... |
| 15.02.2022 | kWh Analytics raises US$20m for business expansion, launches new insurance product | Solar asset insurer kWh Analytics has raised US$20 million for business expansion and developing additional solutions to support solar and energy storage asset owners. |
| 09.02.2022 | kWh Analytics raises $20 million | San Francisco-based risk-management software firm kWh Analytics kWh Analytics
Founded: 2012
Headquarters: San Francisco, CA, US
Total Funding: $26.81M
See full company profile "> has raised $20 million in a Series B round led by Lac... |
| 08.02.2022 | kWh Analytics Raises $20M in Series B Funding | kWh Analytics, a San Francisco, CA-based Climate Insurance company, raised $20m in Series B funding.
Lacuna Sustainable Investments led the round.
The company intends to use the funds to:
develop additional solutions to support solar, wind,... |
| 08.02.2022 | kWh Analytics Raises $20M to Deliver Insurance for Our Climate; Launches 2nd Product to Insure Renewable Energy | kWh Analytics, the leader in Climate Insurance, announced today that it raised $20 million to continue the organization’s expansion.
The capital raise reflects the increasing focus on Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) issues, part... |
| 23.08.2021 | kWh Analytics Expands Solar Revenue Put team | SAN FRANCISCO – kWh Analytics has expanded its team to accelerate the adoption of the Solar Revenue Put with the addition of Sam Barton, Colin Schneider, and Alex Deng, three experienced business development professionals with significant k... |
| 10.03.2021 | Underperforming solar assets shade the entire industry. Here is how to fix it | Underscoring what some call the solar industry’s “systemic overestimation bias,” kWh Analytics found that the average solar asset underperformed its target weather-adjusted production by 6.3% between 2016 and 2019 (early life); one-quarter ... |
| 10.11.2020 | What’s the value of your solar resource data? | Are the solar industry’s pre-construction production estimates too optimistic? Yes, according to several contributions to the “Solar Risk Assessment: 2020” paper published by kWh Analytics. kWh found evidence of “an industry wide bias towar... |
| 05.10.2020 | kWh Analytics launches tool to address optimistic pricing, underperformance in solar projects | kWh Analytics is launching a new tool that it hopes will address the solar industry’s systemic overestimation bias and accelerate the adoption of a more data-driven approach to arriving at production estimates.
Finding a way to address and ... |
| 28.07.2020 | Jigar Shah: Pandemic reveals solar as ‘one of the largest, most trusted industries in the country’ | Samuel Adeyemo, co-founder and chief operating officer of Aurora Solar, kicked off the company’s Virtual Solar Summit July 23 with the results of an informal survey of the installers and other solar professionals who had registered for the ... |
| 14.05.2020 | Cal Flats solar PV project insures its production with kWh Analytics’ Revenue Put | Cal Flats solar PV project insures its production with kWh Analytics’ Revenue Put
By Chris Crowell May 14, 2020 View Profile
Solar risk management firm kWh Analytics structured a Solar Revenue Put as part of the refinancing of the 173-MWdc ... |
| 13.05.2020 | Venture Capital Has A Lot To Learn From Fintech: Data-Driven, New Products, And More Access To A Broader Set Of Companies | Fintech innovation will impact other sectors, notably venture capitalGetty |
| 20.03.2020 | Podcast experts talk about clean energy stories and success in podcasting | #Solar100’s Todd Alexander, Emily Kirsch, and Stephen Lacey: Solar’s Podcast Experts
In this special edition #Solar100, kWh Analytics’ Richard Matsui speaks with three solar podcast experts, Norton Rose Fulbright’s Todd Alexander, Watt it T... |
| 30.01.2020 | Five factors that will impact Southeast solar financing in 2020 | The solar industry has seen several recent developments across the country which have significantly impacted the solar financing landscape. These changes include the rapidly expanding backlog of solar projects five-plus years old, the matur... |
| 22.10.2019 | #Solar100’s Adam Browning: The Michael Jordan of Solar Policy | Dubbed the “Michael Jordan of Solar Policy” by his peers and with special thanks to fellow #Solar100 Leader Tom Matzzie for the nomination, Adam Browning is Co-Founder and Executive Director of Vote Solar, a state-level advocacy nonprofit t... |
| 16.09.2019 | #Solar100’s Meghan Schultz: The Mary Lou Retton of Solar Finance | As a renewables finance veteran and now the head of Invenergy’s finance and capital markets team, Meghan Schultz has overseen the execution of more than $15 billion in financings. In addition to her impressive resume in solar finance, she’s... |
| 04.09.2019 | #Solar100’s Julien Dumoulin-Smith: the Steve Prefontaine of energy analysts | Between his deliberate training, his bordering infamous toughness about his craft, his recognition as the “Top Ranked Equities Analyst covering Power, Utilities, and Renewables,” and the kind of swagger that comes from knowing you’ve made y... |
| 30.05.2019 | Fintech and cleantech… an odd couple or a perfect marriage? | The Valley’s rocky history with cleantech investing has been well-documented.
Startups focused on non-emitting-generation resources were once lauded as the next big cash cow, but the sector’s hype quickly got away from reality.
Complex unde... |
| 25.03.2019 | #Solar100’s Emily Rogers, Zadie Oleksiw, and Jamie Nolan: solar’s communications experts | Expert communications people are like the Hermione Grangers of companies: They may be less visible than their more famous counterparts, but they are indispensable to the epic.
Maybe you haven’t heard of Zadie Oleksiw yet. But you’re probabl... |
| 23.01.2019 | #Solar100’s Emily Kirsch: The Oprah of Clean Energy | Dubbed the “Oprah of Clean Energy” by Emily Fritze and Alex Harbour of Powerhouse – with special thanks to fellow #Solar100 Leaders Kyle Cherrick and TJ Kanczuzewski for the nomination – Emily Kirsch is Founder and CEO of Powerhouse and the... |
| 19.11.2018 | How kWh Analytics is enhancing solar financing with its Solar Revenue Put | How kWh Analytics is enhancing solar financing with its Solar Revenue Put
By Chris Crowell November 19, 2018 View Profile
kWh Analytics is enhancing solar project financing via Solar Revenue Put, which has already enhanced over $250 million... |
| 19.11.2018 | kWh Analytics closes solar revenue put for 35 MW of solar power projects with IGS Solar, Ares Management, ING, & Swiss Re | kWh Analytics, the market leader in solar risk management, today announced that it structured a Solar Revenue Put for a portfolio of 4,000 projects totaling approximately 35 MW DC of capacity located in the Northeast U.S. The facilities are... |
| 19.11.2018 | kWh Analytics structures solar revenue puts on $250 million of solar assets | kWh Analytics, the market leader in solar risk management, announced today that it has structured its Solar Revenue Put credit enhancement on over $250 million of solar assets. Rapid adoption of the Solar Revenue Put is improving the econom... |
| 29.10.2018 | Department of Energy awards $1.25 million to kWh Analytics to better quantify degradation rates | Department of Energy awards $1.25 million to kWh Analytics to better quantify degradation rates
By Chris Crowell October 29, 2018 View Profile
Understanding degradation rates is important for the PV industry, along the entire value chain. A... |
| 18.10.2018 | Solar Lendscape report shows increased investor interest in community solar | kWh Analytics released a free resource profiling 28 tax equity investors for developers looking to raise capital. The Solar Lendscape catalogs the industry’s most active debt and tax equity investors, including details on check size, target... |
| 17.10.2018 | Tax equity investor list: 28 partners for your solar projects | Yesterday, Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA) released its 9.0 update to the Federal Tax Guide for Solar Energy. This matters because mastering it means you can find partners to fund up to 46% of a project’s cost. And now that you k... |
| 29.08.2018 | Insuring the sunrise with Wall Street finance | The basics of the Solar Revenue Put are this: You, the sunlight farmer generating electricity, have built a machine that you believe will deliver a certain amount electricity. kWh Analytics, and its insurance company business partners, will... |
| 23.04.2018 | #Solar100’s Shayle Kann: The Malcolm Gladwell of clean energy | Shayle Kann is clean energy’s own dedicated Malcolm Gladwell.
Throughout his career, Kann has prioritized the ability to be “curious, analytical, and a storyteller.” He has made it his job to understand the whole industry.
And as former hea... |
| 11.04.2018 | NREL promotes new solar tool to accurately calculate PV module degradation rates | How long a product can be expected to perform at a high level is a fundamental indication of quality and durability. In the solar industry, accurately predicting the longevity of photovoltaic (PV) panels is essential to increase energy prod... |
| 30.01.2018 | #Solar100’s Ed Feo: The Hank Aaron of Solar Development | Editor’s note: This is the seventh interview in the #Solar100 Thought Leaders series. More interviews can be found on the #Solar100 page.
Hank Aaron and Ed Feo have had homerun successes in baseball and solar development, respectively.
Whil... |
| 12.12.2017 | #Solar100’s Julia Pyper: The Anna Wintour of Cleantech Media | Editor’s note: This is the sixth interview in the #Solar100 Thought Leaders series. More interviews can be found on the #Solar100 page.
The two journalists-turned-editors Julia Pyper and Anna Wintour have much in common when it comes to the... |
| 06.11.2017 | #Solar100’s Keith Martin: the Chuck Todd of solar | Editor’s note: This is the fifth interview in the #Solar100 Thought Leaders series. More interviews can be found on the #Solar100 page.
If you try to recall the keynotes at the past five solar conferences you’ve attended, we suspect that at... |
| 06.10.2017 | #Solar100’s Jigar Shah: The Kanye West of Solar Finance | Editor’s note: This is the fourth interview in the #Solar100 Thought Leaders series. More interviews can be found on the #Solar100 page.
#Solar100’s Jigar Shah: The Kanye West of Solar Finance
As the Founder and CEO of SunEdison, Jigar Shah... |
| 05.09.2017 | Addressing solar’s growing pains with data standards & analytics | 2It is hard to fathom just how much solar has been installed in the last few years—over 1.3 million systems added 36GW of capacity to the grid. As the industry catches up to this rapid growth, it is important to take stock of some of the ch... |
| 05.07.2017 | #Solar100’s Danny Kennedy: The Most Interesting Man in Solar | As part of our mission to bring you the most compelling news and analysis in the solar industry, pv magazine USA is happy to bring you a new interview series by kWh Analytics, #Solar100 Thought Leaders, which we are syndicating. Today’s int... |
| 01.02.2017 | kWh Analytics — Top 100’ list of Thought Leaders | To read the full article, visit kWh Analytics |
| 08.09.2016 | kWh Analytics Raises $5M in Series A Funding | kWh Analytics, a San Francisco, CA-based provider of a risk management platform for the solar industry, raised $5m in Series A funding.
The round was led by Anthemis Group, with participation fron Engie New Ventures. In conjunction with the... |
| 07.09.2016 | kWh Analytics Raises $5M Series A |
SAN FRANCISCO, CA, kWh Analytics announced a successful $5 million Series A.
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kWh Analytics, the lea... |
| 07.09.2016 | Anthemis Group Leads $5M Series A for kWh Analytics | kWh Analytics, the leading risk management platform for the solar industry, announced today that it has launched PowerLock, a financial product aimed at addressing the mispricing of risk for solar. The firm also announced a successful $5 mi... |
| 19.04.2016 | U.S. to standardize solar data collection, could revolutionize marketplace | U.S. to standardize solar data collection, could revolutionize marketplace
By Chris Crowell April 19, 2016 View Profile
Data unlocks understanding, and those who control data collection and analysis can wield considerable power. Data is a b... |
| 16.09.2014 | Cleantech Incubator Program Energy Excelerator Selects Its 2015 Class | Energy Excelerator, an accelerator program for cleantech startups based in Hawaii, has picked its 2015 class of 17 companies, which will receive a total of $5 million in funding.
The program says its new cohort was selected from hundreds of... |
| - | GM announces its own battery gigafactory with LG Chem, 30 GWh of capacity eventually below $100/kWh | GM has announced a new joint-venture with LG Chem to build their own battery gigafactory, which will have 30 GWh of annual capacity, in Ohio.
The two companies promise a new “industry-leading cost per kilowatt hours” in GM’s future electric... |
| - | Nissan announces 2020 Leaf pricing; starts at $31,600 for 40 kWh, $38,200 for 62 kWh | Nissan has today announced its pricing for the 2020 Leaf in the US. The electric car starts at $31,600 before incentives for the 40 kWh battery pack version. If buyers want over 200 miles of range, they are going to pay at least $38,200 for... |
