Author Archives: SolarWakeup
This is your SolarWakeup for June 14th, 2013
A little less than a month to Intersolar in San Francisco. If you have any big announcement or expected news coverage while at the show, please let me know, I will be happy to meet with you or come by your booth to discuss the coverage. (Quick plug, get your banner ad for the dates during the show).
News
- Solar Industry: Global PV Thrives As Reports Say RE Hit $244 Billion In 2012
- Greentech Media: Cleantech VC Roundup: C3, Bloom, and Downstream Solar
- Int’l Business: Chinese Solar Panel Companies, Are Facing A Painful Future
- Fortune: Obama’s energy loan program is no boondoggle after all
- Breaking Energy: Why Federal Renewable Mandates Challenge US Utilities
- Business Week: Ask Bill Clinton: How We Encourage Homeowners to Adopt Solar?
- CleanTechnica: Solar Jobs Course For Military Vets Comes With Full Scholarship
- Bloomberg: Buffett’s MidAmerican Plans $700 Million Solar Bond Deal
Opinions
Have a great day!
Yann
This is your SolarWakeup for June 13th, 2013
Two days in a row we are hearing about the distributed generation boom following on the Mercatus funding and the start of Trusolar. Also NRG is raising $400million for asset ownership of which I would assume some is going to residential/commercial scale projects. So DG is here/coming, is the tax equity ready for that? Please email me your thoughts on the availability and interest of tax equity, I am interested in hearing from you.
News
- Greentech Media: The Coming US Distributed Solar Boom
- Bloomberg: Italy Set to Cease Granting Tariffs for New Solar Project
- Greentech Media: Homeowner Associations, The Right to Solar, and Solar Costs
- Star Tribune: Investors get more watts for their buck as price for solar drops
- Gigaom: Chinese firms continue to scoop up VC-backed cleantech startups
- LA Times: California leads U.S. in record first quarter for solar installation
- Solar Industry: Coming Soon: Solar Profitability
- Solar Power World: Military Embraces Solar (Photos)
Opinions
Have a great day!
Yann
This is your SolarWakeup for June 12th, 2013
Good news for the Q1 solar data coming from GTM and SEIA. Over 700MW of new capacity installed and CA hits the 2GW mark. Germany just hit the 24GW production mark so let’s look at our progress in perspective. If anyone has the data, please pass along the breakdown of residential/commercial/utility capacity installed.
News
- Gigaom: The bright spot for the U.S. solar market in 2013: home roof tops
- Business Insider: The Amount Of Energy Created From Solar Is Ahead Of Last Year
- PVTech: Solar permitting project sees red and awards gold stars
- Popular Science: The Energy Fix: Reinventing The Solar Array
- Bloomberg: Trina Says EU Anti-Dumping Tariff Closes Solar Markets
- Breaking Energy: ‘The Power of Big Data’: Matchmaking in Solar Financing
- Fortune: Japan: The world’s new star in solar power
Opinions
Have a great day!
Yann