This is your SolarWakeup for July 23rd, 2015

The Sunrun IPO is going to be happening soon as the prospectus was filed yesterday. The residential game is going strong this week. With Sunedison buying Vivint Solar for $2.2billion including $500million in debt giving the company a valuation of $1.7billion. Sunrun, which had 8 times the revenue of Vivint Solar in 2014, is trying to IPO at $13-$15 per share giving the company a valuation of $1.25-$1.45billion. Interestingly, Sunedison has increased guidance due to the Vivint Solar acquisition by an AMAZING 1.1-1.3GW. That means that the company expects 2016 to be 2x the cumulative lifetime. As a sidenote, will some reporters do some real work on their stories going forward? The GTM Residential Leaderboard is for pure play installers. Not residential marketshare as a whole. Vivint Solar can’t be the second largest with $25million in revenue in 2014 compared to SolarCity’s $250million and Sunrun’s $198million. Here is the prospectus for some fun reading

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Yann