Nexamp raises US$600 million for small-scale solar and storage in the US

Earlier this month, the company secured US$330 million in financing from Japanese bank MUFG and financiers ING and Siemens Financial Services, with plans to build 20 new distributed solar projects with a combined capacity of 120MW.  Nexamp has already announced plans to more than double its operational community solar capacity to nearly 3GW by 2028, close to half the capacity of its utility-scale pipeline.

“As energy demand surges nationwide, solar has proven to be the most cost-effective and fastest-to-deploy resource available today,” said Nexamp CEO Zaid Ashai, whose comments follow a report from Wood Mackenzie showing solar to have the most cost-competitive levelised cost of electricity (LCOE) worldwide.

“This facility ensures that Nexamp can continue to deliver the reliable, clean power that communities and businesses need now,” added Ashai.

Nexamp’s work mirrors broader investment trends in the global solar sector, with utility-scale investment falling as small-scale solar projects attract more capital than ever before.

This is particularly true in the US, where president Trump’s rolling back of tax credit support for clean energy projects has spared small-scale projects, with those of a capacity less then 1.5MW still able to secure funding by spending 5% of their estimated project costs, rather than meeting the more nebulous “start of construction” rules to which larger-scale projects must conform.