Wakeup Thoughts: Maybe it’s because of the new year and folks are just coming back from their holidays, but content is slow.  Hopefully everyone is ready to kick it back into high gear and put out great news articles and opinion posts.  When you do, send them my way.

News

• Greentech Media – Do Utilities Know the Real Value of Solar?
• SF Chronicle – Mosaic offers solar crowdfunding
• RE World – Local Solar Could Power 10% of Country
• MN Star Tribune – MN’s largest solar installation begins producing
• Solar Power World – Insights from Solar Power World’s Top 100
• Savannah News – New solar adds to Chatham’s growing inventory 
• DGEP – Project Pricing Index for January 2013

Opinions

• Bill McKibben – Climate change won’t wait
• The Hill – Dems dig in against spending cuts to clean energy
  

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Yann

Wakeup Thoughts: A few more 2012 lists and best ofs today, hope you enjoy some of the charts that are presented.  It seems that solar is becoming part of a broader building IT or DG cleanweb industry, we will see how this develops in 2013.

News

• Gigaom: 5 charts that show the massive growth of solar
• Greentech Media: Greentech Year-End List of Lists 2012
• Forbes: Where Green Tech Investments Will Go In 2013
• SF Chronicle: Solar Industry Poised to Lead U.S. Job Growth in 2013
• Greentech Media: A More Realistic Take on Solar Module Testing
• Cleantechnica: China Announces Overhaul Of Its Solar Industry
• Gigaom: 13 energy startups to watch in 2013

Opinions

• Westport Patch: Solar Program Offers Westporters Major Savings
• Peter Lynch: Feed-in Tariffs, The Proven Road Not Taken

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Wakeup Thoughts: Welcome to 2013! A new year always spurns my internal excitement because of all of the progress that was made in the previous year.  2012 was a rebuilding year for many of us, make 2013 the year that changes the solar industry!

News

• Forbes: Five Green Tech Trends To Watch In 2013
• Greentech Media: Top Ten Greentech VC Deals of 2012
• CleanTechnica: Latin America & Caribbean Solar Markets To Explode
• Deutsche Welle: Solar energy on the rise in Germany
• Forbes: Warren Buffett In $2 Billion Solar Deal
• Reuters: Solar industry’s silver usage drops as high prices burn
• RE World: Wind Energy Tax Credit Extension Passes

Opinions

• Forbes: Clean Energy Innovation: An Unstoppable and Volatile Force
• Greentech Media: Checking In With SolarCity’s CEO, Lyndon Rive
• Vince Font: The Solar Energy Outlook for 2013
• Paula Mints: Solar New Year Resolutions

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Much is ahead for the Solar industry and we will continue to cover it daily.  Thank you again for being a loyal reader and helping us grow.

Let’s look back to 2012.  As you prepare your content and grow your online presence (surely your resolution), this may help give you an idea of what fellow solar professionals are clicking on after being aggregated by the SolarWakeup.

What were the overall trends?

• Greentechmedia.com had the most articles and the most clicks (almost 10% of all clicks)
• Forbes.com came in close 2nd with the amount of clicks and articles
• BusinessInsider.com had the highest clicks per article by almost 30%

• HuffingtonPost.com had many articles but much fewer clicks per story
• Overall, readers didn’t click on op-ed articles and preferred content based articles

• Based on the most clicks on articles, your article preference were as follows in order

1. Failures
2. Markets
3. Rankings
4. Finance

The Top 5 Stories in 2012 were….

• Yet Another Mega-Company Says The Solar Market Is Crashing
• SolarCity IPO represents a bellwether for clean energy exits
• Global Solar Industry Failing Because We’re Subsidizing The Wrong Side
• Siemens Exits Solar, Desertec in Green Portfolio Setback
• Obama Promises more Solar Subsidies

Thank you again for being a part of the SolarWakeup family and keep sending us your news, content, and tips in 2013!

Happy New Year!

Yann