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Solar Builder Magazine
Smart Home Energy Company Emporia Teams With Palmetto

Emporia Energy, announced a new partnership with Palmetto to provide a special offer to customers on new solar energy systems. Home owners can now combine Palmetto’s solar systems with Emporia’s energy management technology.

March 10, 2022
Chris Kemper, Founder & CEO of Palmetto on Making Your Business Sustainable and Profitable

Palmetto Founder & CEO, Chris Kemper, recently joined The CEO Sessions Podcast to discuss starting his first business at 8 years old, risk-taking as an entrepreneur, why he journals once per day, and more. Listen here.

March 3, 2022
Best Company Sustainability Award, 2022
Palmetto Named a Receipient of Best Company's 2022 Sustainability Award

Best Company's Sustainability Award publicly recognizes and congratulates companies that go the extra mile to be sustainable. Making the world and environment a better place, investing in local communities, and mitigating climate change is what drives us every day.

February 24, 2022
Bloomberg Green
Palihapitiya’s Social Capital Leads $375 Million Palmetto Round

Palmetto Clean Technology, a home solar and energy company, raised about $375 million in a funding round led by Chamath Palihapitiya’s Social Capital.

February 24, 2022
USA Today
Top 10 renewable energy and solar companies to watch for in 2022

Palmetto is pioneering a digital-led approach to delivering low-cost solar and other clean technology products to homeowners throughout the United States.

January 14, 2022
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Palmetto Maps 107 Million Roofs In US While Opposition To Rooftop Solar Grows

The power of the sun is free and is projected to last for a least a billion years or more. All humans have to do is harvest it and put it to work running our factories, our transportation networks, and our built environment.

January 13, 2022
PV Magazine
Palmetto maps roughly 75% of U.S. rooftops

The company’s Mapdwell division has captured the photovoltaic potential of 107 million rooftops.

January 6, 2022
Forbes
The Best Solar Panel Installation Companies Of January 2022

Solar panel installation isn’t a particularly straightforward DIY project. However, we recommend exploring our list of the 10 best solar panel installation companies.

January 4, 2022
Yahoo Finance
20 Questions: Chris Kemper

Chris Kemper is deeply passionate about the climate crisis. And as the founder and CEO of Palmetto, a company helping bring solar energy to the masses, he’s helping do something about it.

December 21, 2021
Solar Builder Magazine
Palmetto's Mapdwell division extends partnership with Exelon

Palmetto, a rapidly growing platform technology we recently featured in the pages of Solar Builder, extended its relationship with Exelon Utilities and will continue powering Exelon’s customer-facing solar calculator with Mapdwell a technology Palmetto acquired in April 2021.

December 13, 2021