Please have a great weekend and enjoy today’s solar news! If you haven’t recently, please let your friends and colleagues know about the newsletter and our events. Coming next to Jersey City on November 6th.
Powerhouse Growth! A great evening for the New Dawn, a fundraiser for solar’s most well known incubator, Powerhouse. Congrats to the team and thanks to all the sponsors for supporting the early stage companies that are a part of Powerhouse. I had a great time meeting many of you in Oakland last night and look forward to seeing many of you again at the CALSSA Annual Dinner.
Big Money In Sector. Energy Impact Partners has closed a fund to the tune of $681million. The original fund was mostly from utilities that were looking to have an investment into new energy technologies and companies. I’ve thoroughly enjoyed watching EIP grow and make their investments into the space.
Co-Op Report. Rocky Mountain Institute has a new report out that talks about the overlap of coal and renewables for cooperative utilities. This goes with the report from last week where co-ops were considering leaving their generating entities to have access to more renewables both for consumer demand as well as the price. These are interesting times for consumer led utilities and a job well done by RMI.
Murphy’s Vision. NJ’s Governor Murphy has a bold vision for solar and we’ll be talking about it on November 6th, check out the speakers and agenda at solarwakeuplive.com
- SolarWakeup: Private Equity Firm Raises Nearly $1 Billion For Clean Tech Investements
- Utility Dive: Co-op solar boom raises questions about coal in utility power mixes
- SolarWakeup: Duke Energy Requests Temporary Retail Net Metering Revival In South Carolina
- SolarWakeup: The Energy Show – Solar Monitoring – the Most Common Solar Problem
- Renew Economy: The fall and rise of demand response, and the power of “negawatts”
- GreenBiz: Circularity in our solar energy system
- Axios: Nigerian off-grid solar market poised for growth
- Power Magazine: Searching for Relief from the Headaches Facing the Merchant Power Sector
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Have a great day!
Yann