Wakeup Thoughts: Today’s top listed story comes to you from the Heritage Foundation.  It follows the tried and true method to personally attack any innovation that changes the status quo.  Does solar get tax credits? It sure does, but so does natural gas, coal, nuclear, SUVs and everything else in our economy.  The Heritage article is a joke, but we must respond and show them that solar is hear to stay!

News

• Heritage – DOE Recipient Fleeces Taxpayers for Green Investors
• Solar Industry – Solar Price Reductions Removing Barriers To Adoption
• Greentech Media – Focusing on Solar Panel Durability, Not Bankability
• Gigaom – “Advanced energy” is an over trillion-dollar market
• Northland’s – MN Solar Electric Installations Gains Strong Growth
• Scientific – Cellular Towers Are Making the Move to Solar
• Manufacturing Net – Solar Carports: Refueling Stations Of The Future
• Forbes – Controversial PV Program Creates More Benefits Than Costs

Opinions

• Susannah Churchill – Why Is Net Metering Under Attack?
• Tor Valenza – 10 Tips for Guerrilla Solar Marketing with Vehicles
• Laurel Passera – 2012: the Year Solar Turned the Corner?

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Yann

Wakeup Thoughts: The news this morning is the drop in investment in clean energy in 2012, still the 2nd highest level of all time.  Charts and data can be what you make of it I guess.  A recent quote from Greenstart’s Mitch Lowe “Cleantech’s dead the same way the internet was dead in 2000″…on that note, check out the work done @Greenstart

News

• Forbes – Buffett Buys More Solar And The Crowd is Following Him
  
• Indian Country – CA Solar Initiative Outshined its 2012 Goal
• Grist – U.S. renewable investment drops in 2012
• Greentech Media – 2012 Global Clean Energy Falls to $268B
• RE World – Interactive Map Illustrates U.S. Solar Grid Parity
• Bloomberg – Private Equity Flees Clean Energy 
• Climate Spectator – What the US fiscal cliff deal meant for solar

Opinions

• The Hill – Sierra urges Obama to wield ‘full authority’ against climate
• @SolarFrankA – Smash The Grid — Bring (Solar) Power To The People
• LA Times – The 5% climate solution

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Wakeup Thoughts: I wanted to pass on a webinar that Vote Solar is hosting on January 30th about PACE.  Vote Solar continues to drive great advocacy and information in and out of the solar industry that help us all.  Sign up for the webinar and learn more about PACE and how it very well may be the future of the solar industry.

News

• LA Times – DWP will allow customers to sell solar
• Gigaom – Why crowd funding could disrupt solar power 
• ThinkProgress – Green Jobs 2.0: Re-Framing The Politics
• Business Insider – Looks Like Europe Is Going Off Solar Cliff
• Quartz – China is about to surpass Germany’s solar market
• Wash. Examiner – China’s solar industry looking like ours
  
• Forbes – China’s GCL Warns of “Vicious” Solar Industry

Opinions

• Andy Darrell – Cuomo Offers Smart Plan For Mitigation
• Justin Guay – Social Bankability, Solar Crowdfunders

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

Our first full week in 2013 and already much has happened.  I wish everyone a prosperous and healthy New Year and much success in your solar endeavors.

#10 Solar Without Subsidies? – @AOLenergy

#9 Insights from Solar Power World’s Top 100 – @SolarKathieZ

#8 13 solar startups to watch in 2013 – @UciliaWang

#7 Do Utilities Know the Real Value of Solar? – @greentechmedia

#6 What Does 2013 Have In Store For The Solar – @Forbes

#5 Fiscal Cliff Legislation Spares Solar Industry – @greentechmedia

#4 Project Pricing Index – DGEP

#3 How Social Networks Are Fueling The Solar Boom – @greenwombat

#2 Solar Market to Rise 22 Percent – @Bloomberg

#1 Want to Invest a Few Hundred Bucks in a Solar Project? – @WSJ

Have a great weekend!

Yann