Wakeup Thoughts: REITs and MLPs are back for more.  Will we get some guidance from the IRS in the requested private letter ruling? What will it mean for funding available to solar?  Can we satisfy the need to deploy cheaper capital with enough projects?

News

• Bloomberg – Solar Costs to Fall as REITs Emerge as Funding
• Greentech Media – REITs, MLPs, and Mortgages: Solar After the ITC
• RE World – Federal Win for Small RE Systems Good Model for States
• Huffington Post – Under Obama, Spain’s Solar Cos Invest Big In U.S.
• Gigaom – Energy Secretary Steven Chu to leave, end of a green era
• AOL Energy – US Power Prices Will Continue to Increase
• The Hill – Interior finalizes Ariz. solar energy plan

Opinions

• Pete Danko – Solar On White House? First Dog Bo Says Make It So!
• Laurel Passera – 2012: The Year Solar Turned the Corner?

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

Plenty of positive coverage this week, much of it coming from folks inside the solar industry.  Keep the press coverage and pass it on when it’s published.  Enjoy your top 10 and have a great weekend.

#10 Obama to focus on renewable energy, climate change – @Salon

#9 Solar Price Reductions Removing Barriers To Adoption – @SolarIndustry

#8 DWP will allow customers to sell back excess solar energy – @LATimes

#7 Why crowd funding could disrupt how solar is created – @KatieFehren

#6 Solar Program More Benefits Than Costs For CA – @UciliaWang

#5 Private Equity Flees Clean Energy as Investment Falls – @Bloomberg

#4 Interactive Map Illustrates U.S. Solar Grid Parity – @johnffarrell

#3 Goldman Renewable Offerings Says Slump Is Ending – @Bloomberg

#2 DOE Recipient Fleeces Taxpayers to Benefit Investors – @Heritage

#1 Buffett Buys More Solar and The Crowd Following Him – @DannyKsfun

Have a great weekend!

Yann

Wakeup Thoughts: As someone professionally and personally vested in the interest of investors to deploy capital into the solar industry, I am incredibly happy to see today’s top article.  Bloomberg is reporting that Goldman is seeing a path back into the space and the ‘slump’ ending.  I think that is factual, and I hope that other investors are seeing it the same way.

News

• Bloomberg – Goldman Renewable Offerings Says Slump Is Ending
• American Progress – Building on Obama’s Clean Energy Successes
• Salon – Obama to focus on renewable energy, climate change
• Boston Globe – Solar success costing owners
• Power Eng. – FERC speed up solar energy grid interconnections
• KXAN – Solar energy jobs grow in Austin
• Pagosa Daily – Solar Colorado, Industry Leaders Come Together
• Fox News – US taxpayers giving $4B to foreign firms for green energy
• Bloomberg – Africa Renewable Energy Push ‘Not Working’ Due to Risks

Opinions

• @SolarKathieZ – The Importance of Social Solar
• Wash. Times – Energy Secretary Chu to leave Obama administration 

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Wakeup Thoughts: This morning’s time goes to Katie Fehrenbacher for accurately hitting the positive aspects of the cleantech sector.  Mosaic’s launch, SolarCity’s IPO, and yesterday’s Sungevity capital raise show that solar is part of the bright spot in cleantech investment.  Congrats to the companies and to @KatieFehren for speaking the positives!

News

• Solar Industry – truSolar Group Aims To Create Solar Standards
• Examiner – Mayor Vincent C. Gray signs Sustainability Act of 2012
• Reuters – How Cleantech Tarnished Kleiner and VC Star John Doerr
• Gigaom – 5 things the Reuters story on cleantech, and Doerr missed
• Greentech Media – The Solar Industry Module Testing Gold Standard
• PV Magazine – Germany: Promoting solar power storage
• Politico – Ken Salazar’s legacy includes push for wind, solar energy
• Solar Power World – Land Requirements for Solar are Insignificant
• Huffington Post – Army’s largest solar array dedicated in New Mexico

Opinions

• Kent Hoover – Solar/Wind sad to see Salazar go; Big Oil, not so much

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