News

• Greentech Media – Name All the Residential Solar Lease Providers
• AOL Energy – Solar Without Subsidies? Distribution Models Questioned
• Solar Power World – How To Finance Distributed Generation
• Forbes – China Regulator Warns On Bad Loans, Especially To Solar
• Triple Pundit – Why Solar Power is Pure ECO:nomics
• SF Chronicle – MiaSole solar to add 200 employees in CA
• Greentech Media – With Community Solar, Rates That Never Rise
• RE World – Policy Still a Concern for Renewables Investors

Opinions

• Adam James – Do Clean Energy Innovation Clusters Work?

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Yann

.News

• Greentech Media – Impact of Suntech’s Insolvency On the U.S. Supply
• Solar Industry – Mistakes, Pricing, Tariffs May Have Sunk Suntech
• Forbes – European Solar Dispute, China Will Retaliate
• Greentech Media – Bill Could Help GA Consumers Reap Solar Cash
• Solar Power World – Solar Power Is On Georgia’s Mind
• Forbes – Bosch Shuts Down Solar Business
• Greentech Media – Numbers From the War on State RPSs

Opinions

• LA Times – Carbon tax? No thanks, says Senate
• Grist – Can we shift to renewable energy? Yes.

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Yann

Another conglomerate leaves the solar business.  Bosch has chosen to close or sell off their solar business units in which they invested close to $2.6 Billion.  It is indicative of the issues that all in the value chain are having, moving megawatts just to try and break even.  With the US market deploying 3.3GW last year, there does not appear to be an increasing amount of solar millionaires.

News

• Bloomberg – Bosch Quits $2.6 Billion Solar Foray
• RE World – Unlocking Renewable Potential in the Caribbean
• Gigaom – Where the money is in cleantech: oil and gas
• Bloomberg – Solar Survives Suntech as Customers Seek Alternative
• GreentechMedia – Northeast Solar Sales Surge Through Home Depot
• RE world – Cumulative PV Demand to Double Again by 2015

Opinions

• Elizabeth Rosenthal – Life after Oil and Gas 
• Tor Valenza – Puppy Dogs and Solar Quotes: Cause Marketing
• Marlene Motyka – Why We Should Pity Utilities

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Yann

These are your top stories of the week! See what your colleagues read the most this week.

#1 @FoxNews – Solar firm faces layoffs, just months after opening

#2 @mmfa – Fox News: Solar “Might Be Tanking Our Economy”

#3 @SolarPowerWorld – What Does A Solar Developer Do?

#4 @BloombergNews – Solar To Be 2nd-Biggest Source of U.S. Power in ’13

#5 9th Circuit – Court allows FHFA to kill Residential PACE

#6 @GreentechMedia – Financing Tools Move Renewables to Main Street

#7 @REWorld – What Does the Future Hold for NJ Solar?

#8 @NYTimes – Obama Seeks to Use Oil and Gas Money

#9 @POWERGridMag – SHEET: Obama’s Blueprint for a Clean Energy

#10 @PaulaMints1 – Solar PV Profit’s Last Stand

Have a great weekend!

Yann