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community solar, nationwide

Maryland is now home to the largest rooftop community solar project in the U.S.

Press Releases

January 15, 2021

Summit Ridge Energy Now Has 42 Community Solar Farms in Operation in Illinois

Summit Ridge Energy put new 25 community solar farms online in Illinois in the 4th quarter of 2020, bringing the company’s community solar farm total in Illinois to 42.

September 09, 2020

Summit Ridge and 1st Source Bank expand partnership in debt and tax equity deal

Summit Ridge Energy (“SRE”) and 1st Source Bank today announced the expansion of their partnership through the bank’s commitment to provide debt and tax equity to fund an additional 8 of SRE’s Illinois community solar projects totaling 23 MWdc.


In the News

June 13, 2023

Reuters: FEATURE-US cities risk losing out on clean-energy incentives, jobs

WASHINGTON, June 13 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – In a church on Chicago’s West Side near where he grew up, Marques Jones Jr. is hoping to earn more money and help his family by learning how to install and maintain the solar panels he now sees everywhere he goes. Jones is midway through an inaugural 11-week […]

May 02, 2023

Chicago Sun Times: Sky’s the limit for West Side training of solar panel technicians

Rob Wallace, chief executive of Ecademy, instructs Traveli Ratcliff on cutting angles while learning how to install solar panels Monday. A new venture hopes to train 10,000 graduates over the next decade in solar panel installation. With the involvement of businesses and organizations, and maybe a boost from providence, a venture to train people in […]