Announced this week, the acquisition of commercial and industrial (C&I) PV specialist groSolar represents EDF-RE’s largest-ever push into distributed generation. The move reflects corporate customers’ growing demand for renewable power both from large, often-distant plants as well as from smaller, more locally sited ones. 

San Diego-based EDF-RE, the US subsidiary of France’s EDF Energies Nouvelles, is already a leading player in the booming market for selling wind power directly to corporate US buyers, with a list of customers that includes Microsoft, Yahoo, Google, and Procter & Gamble.