(Bloomberg) — Sunrun Inc., America’s biggest rooftop-solar company, is set to become a behemoth through a $1.46 billion takeover of its rival Vivint Solar Inc. Shares of both companies surged.The agreement announced late Monday is one of the industry’s biggest. It comes after Tesla Inc.’s 2016 purchase of debt-plagued SolarCity Corp. and the failed 2015 acquisition of Vivint by SunEdison Inc., the clean-energy giant that went bankrupt soon after.The second major U.S. energy deal in as many days — following Berkshire Hathaway Inc.’s $4 billion purchase of Dominion Energy Inc. assets — also threatens to further weaken Tesla’s grip on …read more
Source:: Yahoo Finance
