SolarCity Completes Installation of 18,000+ Solar Panels at Army Family Housing in Maryland and Colorado

NEW YORK, NY --(eSolarEnergyNews)-- Balfour Beatty Communities, as managing member of military housing projects located at Fort Detrick and Fort Carson, and SolarCity have completed the installation of more than 18,000 solar panels at Army family housing.

The solar panels are installed on multi-family housing, community centers and maintenance facilities at Fort Detrick, Maryland and Fort Carson, Colorado, to provide power to approximately 1,200 housing units across the two bases.

SolarCity designed, built and will maintain the solar power systems, and the military housing project companies (jointly owned by the Army and Balfour Beatty Communities) purchase the power they produce at a discount to local utility rates to generate savings. The installations total more than 4.7 megawatts (MW) of solar power generation capacity—Fort Carson is the larger of the projects with a combined 3 MW of capacity and the Fort Detrick installations are at 1.7 MW.

OneRoof Energy Continues Sales Channel Expansion with Blue Raven Solar

SAN DIEGO, CA --(eSolarEnergyNews)-- OneRoof Energy, Inc., a residential solar services provider and wholly-owned subsidiary of OneRoof Energy Group, Inc. today announced that Blue Raven Solar has been added to the Company's growing list of sales channel partners.   Blue Raven is headquartered in Utah with growing markets throughout northern and southern California, as well as expanding operations on the East Coast.  Blue Raven's founders have exhibited excellent traction in the direct sales arena with demonstrated success in the home security, telecommunications, and pest control industries. Blue Raven will be offering OneRoof Energy solar systems to its new and potential customers.