Sunrun willalso acquire AAE Solar, a wholesale PV distributor, and SnapNrack, a mountingsystems business, all three companies bought from privately owned MainstreamEnergy Corp.

REC Solarwas already a major installation partner of Sunrun, which competes with thelikes of SolarCity, SunPower and BlackRock-owned Vivint in the boomingthird-party ownership sector in the US.

REC Solar,based in San Luis Obispo, is not to be confused with the identically namedSingapore-based REC Solar, which was spun off from Norway’s REC Group lastyear.

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