Announcing Knollwood Energy of MA LLC

By Alane Lakritz on March 15, 2012

Effective March 8, 2012 Knollwood Energy, LLC assigned the rights to its facilities in Massachusetts to its affiliate Knollwood Energy of MA LLC. This new LLC will allow us to focus time and capital specifically on the needs of the dynamic Massachusetts market.

This transition is seamless to the customer. The current contracts of Massachusetts customers have been taken over by Knollwood Energy of MA LLC. MA DOER will be assigning all current Knollwood Energy LLC customers to the new entity.

The primary contacts remain the same:

Alane Lakritz - President, Alane@KnollwoodEnergy.com, 862-432-0259
Karen Adelman - VP of Sales, Karen@KnollwoodEnergy.com, 862-432-0370
Amy Molinaro - MA Operations Manager, Amy@KnollwoodEnergy.com, 908-955-0590

We thank all of our customers for their business and we look forward to continuing to provide you with outstanding service.

1 Comment »
Posted in Announcements, Massachusetts, SREC Markets

A Clean Energy Announcement from the Massachusetts Department of Energy Resources

By Alane Lakritz on January 31, 2012

This week, President Obama and Governor Patrick both confirmed their visions for our clean energy future. In the State of the Union speech, the President talked about the “promise of clean energy,” and said “nowhere is the promise of innovation greater than in American-made energy.” In the Governor’s State of the Commonwealth address, he brought it home, reminding us that the Green Communities Act fundamentally shifted our state’s energy focus toward efficiency and renewable energy.

Thanks to this leadership and the work of thousands across Massachusetts, we’ve made significant clean energy progress over the last year. Please take a minute and view my Massachusetts 2011 Clean Energy Year in Review post on our Energy Smarts blog to see many of the advances we made together in 2011.

Click the image below to see the advances in our energy agenda from last year. You can also view the Massachusetts 2011 Clean Energy Year In Review on this site: http://prezi.com/x07ifhovrdku/massachusetts-2011-clean-energy-year-in-review/

It’s been an exciting first year as commissioner and I look forward to continuing my work with you as we create a cleaner energy future together.

Thank You,

Commissioner Mark Sylvia

Department of Energy Resources

1 Comment »
Posted in Announcements, Massachusetts, Solar

Knollwood Energy Announces New Website and Blog

By Gary Lakritz on November 10, 2011

Knollwood Energy is pleased to announce the rollout of our new website and blog. We will strive to provide the market with insight and updates on SREC and solar markets throughout the country. Also, we will focus some blogs on our customers and how solar is helping them.

Many of our existing customers have recently been utilizing the initial functionality of our new Knollwood Energy portal. The portal will provide our customers with information about their accounts and allow them an easy and efficient way to interact with us. Our installer partners will also find new functionality which will make Knollwood Energy the simplest and most efficient SREC partner in the market.

Finally, we will be making announcements about our upcoming consulting and expanded financing opportunities as we continue to evolve Knollwood Energy into the single best solar financing and SREC resource in the country.

0 Comments »
Posted in Announcements

Massachusetts SREC Program Update - October 2011

By Alane Lakritz on October 14, 2011

Karen joins the Knollwood Energy MA team

Knollwood Energy is pleased to announce that Karen Adelman will be assisting with customer relations in Massachusetts. Karen has been with Knollwood Energy for the past year covering the Pennsylvania market. She can be reached at: Karen@KnollwoodEnergy.com or direct phone number 862-432-0370.

Alane Lakritz will be focusing on business development. She is actively working on enhancing Knollwood Energy's financial product offerings in Massachusetts. Stay tuned for information in the near future on this. She will also be responsible for expanding our market territory in existing SREC states and new states as SREC programs becomes available. Alane is always available to speak with customers, prospects and installers to answer specific questions on Knollwood Energy, the MA SREC program, or about the SREC market in general. She can be reached at Alane@KnollwoodEnergy.com or direct phone number 862-432-0259.

Q2 Minting

Knollwood Energy sold all Q2 credits for $539. Our customers will receive payment by the first week of November. If you are not an existing customer but would like to sell your credits to Knollwood, please contact us, we will be happy to assist.

Q3 SREC Deadline

MA DOER and MassCEC are tightening up the deadlines to submit paperwork. The deadline to submit paperwork for systems interconnected in the third quarter is November 15th. Please email Karen@KnollwoodEnergy.comimmediately if you have a system that interconnected prior to October 1, 2011 and is not set up for SRECs yet. If paperwork is submitted after this deadline, all production prior to October 1, 2011 will be lost.

1 Comment »
Posted in Announcements, Energy Credits, Massachusetts, Solar, SREC Markets

Mass SREC Update - August 2010

By Alane Lakritz on August 13, 2010

First Credits Minted

On July 15, 2010 Massachusetts minted a total of 7 credits under the new solar carve-out SREC program. These credits were generated from solar photovoltaic facilities that were registered and produced at least 1 mwh of production between January - March, 2010. Obviously, this is an extremely low number. It could be due to a couple of factors; facilities that were eligible were not registered and/or systems that were completed during the first quarter were actually started in 2009 under the previous program.

Next MA SREC Minting

The next credits will be minted on October 15th. These credits will be for production ending June 30, 2010. If you had a solar installation that started producing anytime between January - June 2010, it is very important that you contact us ASAP. Knollwood Energy will take care of all the paperwork required to get the facility registered with the MA DOER. We also monitor the facility on the MA Clean Energy Center so, if the system produced at least 1mwh by June 30, 2010, and we can get the system registered in time, we will pay immediately for all Massachusetts SRECs after they are minted - no need to wait for an auction to occur.

Systems that are completed between July - September, 2010 will be minted January 15, 2011. Does this mean you should wait? Absolutely not, we are registering new facilities daily. There is currently no registration backlog with the state. We submit the paperwork and it gets promptly registered.

MA SREC PRICING

Knollwood Energy anticipates that there will not be enough supply to meet the SREC compliance demand for the 2010 reporting year. We are paying our customers over $500 per SREC. We work with residential and commercial facilities of all sizes. The more facilities we have early on as part of our aggregation, the better positioned we are to negotiate with the utilities, which in turn means better pricing per SREC.