Wakeup Thoughts: Many of us talk about climate change but few of us have been impacted by it, impacted to the point that it changes our lifestyle or makes memories permanently irreplaceable.  My twitter (@YannBrandt) background is a picture of my son on a beach in Fort Lauderdale which we went to as a family many times per week.  The last article and pictures below show you where that beach is today…gone, permanently.

News

• SolarCity Sets IPO Share Price – greentech media
• San Mateo-based SolarCity hopes to raise $151mm – Mercury News
• Decentralized Renewable Energy Systems – AOL Energy
• Cost Of Solar Systems In US Continues To Decline – CleanTechnica
• US Solar Market Insight: 50 States, 50 Markets – greentech media
• Denver is 1st city dubbed ‘solar friendly’ for permits – Biz Journal
• Making Wind and Solar Work With the Grid – greentech media
• Solar Radiation Database Updated – CleanTechnica

• A climate for solar – LA Times
• Ravaged stretch of A1A may not return to 4-lane road – Sun-Sentinel

Have a great day!

Yann

Wakeup Thoughts: Greetings from Connecticut, a week filled with travel which we are all accustomed to.  One goal that few of us talk about is that our businesses should be more local in the future.  Enough roaming from market to market and being away from the family.

News

• Solar May Face a Shortage of Skilled Labor – RE World
  
• A ‘Blue-Collar’ Solar Workforce – Solar Industry
• Is Puerto Rico the Next Big Solar Market? – Solar Power World
• How to avoid the next Sandy meltdown – Fortune
• SunShot Hopes $10M Can Boost 10 Solar Startups – greentech media
• China Starts Dumping Probe on U.S. – Bloomberg
• New Directive to the OPA has been Released – CanSIA
• Solar Groups Applaud Georgia Commission – Solar Industry
• Palm Beach Gardens might join other communities – PB Post

• Adding the 2013 Chevy Volt to a solar-powered home – gigaom
• Strange Solar Bedfellows – Business Insider

Have a great day!

Yann

Wakeup Thoughts: Welcome back from your Thanksgiving Holiday (US readers) and pardon for the interruption for all readers abroad.  I want to thank each and every one of you for opening SolarWakeup every morning.  This has been a venture started on a whim and I could not have asked for better results.  I have no motive in this endeavor so every word of encouragement from you means a lot.  In 3 months we have been read in over 40 Countries and more coming every week.  THANK YOU!

News

• In a Blackout, Solar Exceptions – NY Times
• SolarCity IPO before the end of the year? – Gigaom
• Solar power plants burden the counties that host – LA Times
• Most anti-solar reporter in media? – Daily Kos (response to LA Times)
• Solar-energy investments are paying off in MA – Boston Globe
• Georgia Power’s solar initiative approved – PV magazine
• Southern Co.’s solar efforts draw heat from skeptics – Atlanta Journal
• Special Forces Give You Reasons to Support Solar – Clean Technica
  
• RIP Larry Hagman: A Passion For Solar – Forbes

• How solar power saved Thanksgiving – smartplanet
• We’ll be seeing more about solar… – Peach Pundit
• Cleaner energy generating jobs for Americans – Billings Gazette

Have a great day!

Yann

Wakeup Thoughts: Leading this morning’s Wakeup with a story from the City I was born and raised in.  Hamburg is an incredible place that has adapted with infrastructure to support the new advanced economy.  Not surprisingly, Hamburg is mostly cloudy with a chance of rain pretty much all year long but has not wavered in its commitment to solar.

News

• Germany’s Clean Energy Transforms City of Hamburg – Bloomberg
  
• Georgia PSC moves ahead on solar energy – Biz Journal
• Georgia law keeps customers from saving with solar – WSBTV
• DoE Announces Latest Awardees In SunShot Program – Solar Industry
• Solar Leaders Pull Away From The Pack – Forbes
• L.A. City Council Approves $1.6 Billion DWP Solar Power Deal – KCET
• A Breakthrough PV Module Rating System? – greentech media
• Renewable Energy Good News Comes to Light – RE World

• Fox Cherry-Picks Stat To Degrade Solar – Media Matters
• Clean Energy Win Western Support – David Foster
  

@SolarWakeup follower of the Day

• @Gosolarcenter
  

Have a great day!

Yann