Here is how you can tell that solar is not quite mainstream yet. When Vivint Solar’s stock goes down 13% and the reaction is due to larger losses than expected. At the same time, installations and bookings grew. It is clear to me that the solar IPP model has not been understood quite yet. As SolarCity’s CFO used to say, we don’t view losses as a bad thing, we see them as the investment in assets we need to make. Meanwhile, SolarCity may be on plan to install 1GW of solar in 2015, just in time for the Buffalo manufacturing plant.
- Clean Technica: How & Why Utilities Make Solar Look Expensive
- Solar Love: SolarCity Could Install 1 GW Of Rooftop Solar In 2015
- Marketwatch: If more people go solar, what will happen to the grid?
- Renewable Energy World: From Finance to Customer Acquisition, Catalyst SunShot Finalists Compete to Launch Big
- SC Now: Duke Energy to offer customers more solar options, grow capacity
- Utility Dive: NV lawmaker wants PUC, not legislature, to have net metering reform authority
- PV-Magazine: Commercial rooftop sector gets unexpected budget boost
- Salt Lake Tribune: Proposed surcharge on Utahns with solar panels is back for Rocky Mountain Power customers
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Yann