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BentallGreenOak and Summit Ridge Energy Announce Plan to Develop New 2.7 MW Rooftop Solar Power Project in Maryland
BentallGreenOak (BGO), on behalf of an institutional investor, announced plans to install its first community solar project, financed by Summit Ridge Energy (SRE) and facilitated by Black Bear Energy.

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.
In the News

The Associated Press: Classes Begin at New Green Job Training Center in Chicago
Chicago’s new Sustainability Hub will train and employ 10,000+ local Illinois residents for solar careers CHICAGO, May 2, 2023 /PRNewswire/ — The Sustainability Hub, a new Chicago job training center jointly developed by Power52’s Ecademy and 548 Enterprise (548), has proudly welcomed the first twenty trainees to its clean energy job training program. With funding […]

Canary Media: A huge community solar order is latest in US clean manufacturing boom
Summit Ridge Energy’s 2.5-megawatt Speedway community solar project south of Joliet, Illinois (Business Wire) A record-setting supply agreement between solar hardware builder Qcells and project developer Summit Ridge Energy was announced last week, indicating that the incentives in the Inflation Reduction Act are already driving the deployment of domestically sourced renewable energy infrastructure. The 1.2-gigawatt […]