Company type | Public |
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NYSE: VSLR Russell 2000 Index component | |
Industry | Renewable energy |
Founded | 2011 |
Defunct | October 2020Sunrun) | (purchased by
Headquarters | Lehi, Utah |
Areas served | 23 states[1] |
Key people | David Apalone Bywater (CEO) |
Website | vivintsolar.com (defunct) |
Vivint Solar was an American provider of photovoltaic solar energy generation systems, primarily for residential customers. The company was established in 2011 as an offshoot of home automation and security company Vivint and was headquartered in Lehi, Utah. The company primarily used a power purchase agreement (PPA) business model where Vivint Solar installed and maintained a solar system on a customer's home, then sold power to the customer at an agreed upon rate for a set term. In 2020, the company was purchased by Sunrun, another solar company primarily focused on the PPA business model for $3.2 billion.[2]
At the time of the merger, Vivint Solar had installed a total of 1.29 gigawatts of power for over 188,000 customers[3] in 23 U.S. states (Arizona, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Florida, Hawaii, Illinois, Maryland, Massachusetts, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Texas, Utah, Vermont, and Virginia).[4][5]