Powering New Markets: Utility-scale Photovoltaic Solar

In 2011, LPO issued loan guarantees to the first 5 PV projects larger than 100 MW in the United States. Learn how LPO helped launch a new market.

Loan Programs Office

February 6, 2015
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October 2016 Update (45 additional utility-scale PV projects)

February 2016 Update (28 additional utility-scale PV projects)

Original Report: In 2011, LPO issued loan guarantees to the first 5 PV solar projects larger than 100 MW in the United States.  Since 2011, an additional 17 PV projects (as of February 2015) larger than 100 MW have been financed without DOE loan guarantees.  Read more on Executive Director Peter Davidson’s February 2015 blog post or download the full original report below.

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