Enjoy your early Christmas break with a SolarWakeup Christmas Digest!

News

• Media Matters: 8 Most Absurd Attacks On Clean Tech In 2013
• NY Times: Catching Rays in California, and Storing Them
• National Journal: Are Utilities Wilting From Heat of Solar Competition?
• Greentech Media: The Solar Net Metering Battle Moves to Colorado
• Bloomberg: Utilities Mimic Cable With Monthly Fee to Preserve Grid
• Wired: Google Glass Does Solar Panel Installs in the California Sun
• CleanTechnica: Massive 49 GW Solar PV Demand for 2014
• Biz Journals: Georgia Power prepares to buy more solar power
• CS Monitor: Paying for solar power isn’t what it used to be

Have a great day!

Yann

Congratulations on making it to the end of 2013.  Today is, in reality, the last business day of the year.  We round out the year with some more lists and predictions but we can pause and give ourselves a round of applause for a job well done.  The year was a positive forward progress in our mission to install more solar, across all market segments.  Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!

SolarWakeup will continue to publish for the next few weeks but there will probably not be morning thoughts and tweets as actively.  If the stories are there, they’ll come your way but we won’t force junk stories your way.

News

• Greentech Media: Why Treasury Is Investigating SolarCity and Other Funds
• Solar Industry: Top 10 Solar Market Predictions For 2014
• Solar Power World: Top 10 Trends That Shaped Solar News in 2013
• Washington Post: John Podesta’s plan to bypass Congress on climate change
• Bloomberg: Mexico to Triple Demand for Solar Next Year With 250MW
• Motley Fool: Solar Power has Natural Gas in its Crosshairs
• RE World: Renewable Energy Black Eyes Are Contagious and Avoidable

Opinions

• Greentech Media: 10 Cleantech Buzzwords of 2013
• Think Progress: Energy Tax Break Reform: The Good, The Bad, And The Ugly

Have a great day!

Yann

This is the season of lists.  2013 presented many great stories and events that shaped our industry.  SolarWakeup is not to be outdone and will be publishing a list of its own this week.  “Top 10 trends that shaped solar news in 2013” is made up of the stories that you, our readers, thought most of important by your clicks.  We try to gauge every morning the stories that are most important to you, sometimes we get it right and sometimes we totally miss the mark.

News

• RE World: US Proposes Energy Tax Reform: Here’s What It Means for Renewables
• Greentech Media: Missouri’s the Latest Front in Homeowners’ Fight for ‘Solar Rights’
• NY Times: Germany Defends Surcharge Exemptions
• SFGate: More comfortable S.F. homes, lower energy bills
• Think Progress: 13 Major Clean Energy Breakthroughs Of 2013
• Breaking Energy: Sustainable Energy and Cleantech Trends for 2014
• CleanTechnica: Creating A Solar Energy Bank

Opinions

• Solar Power World: Can Gender Profiling Help YOU Expand Your Solar Business?
• SolSystems: Want to Invest in Solar? Join the Club.

Have a great day!

Yann