This is your Election Day SolarWakeup for November 6th, 2012.

Survey: Is Solar the deciding issue for you when voting today?

Wakeup Thoughts: Hopefully by tomorrow morning, we will know the path our Country chose during today’s election.  In the meantime, we have a full on solar trade war with the WTO complaint by China.  Get out and vote!

News

• Solar: America’s Fastest Growing Job-Creation Engine? – Forbes
• New York’s Solar Energy Industry Keeps Thriving – get solar
• Green Jobs Depend on Obama Win as Fiscal Cliff Looms – Bloomberg
• Solar Delivers High Value In New Jersey, Pennsylvania – Solar Industry
• McGuinty Liberals’ dream of renewable energy – National Post
• What Happens When the ITC Expires? – greentech solar
• China Files W.T.O. Case Against Europe – NY Times
• China takes EU solar dispute to WTO – China Daily
• Panasonic Freezes New Investment in PV Manufacturing – RE World

@SolarWakeup follower of the Day

• @Energy_Spectrum
  

Have a great day!

Yann

Wakeup Thoughts: With every disaster, we realize how attached we are to our energy.  What’s most interesting is that most if not all of the effort to get power back up has to do with the infrastructure and not the power plants.  Imagine if we had power plants on every rooftop? 

News

• For Veterans, Clean Energy Jobs Are Perfect – HuffPost
• Clean-tech’s future hinges on election – SF Chronicle
• U.S. Solar Jobs Outpace Total Economy – Bloomberg
• TN attorney general: solar tax exemption is unconstitutional – WBIR
• Siemens to take further writedown on solar business – Reuters
  

• CleanTechnica’s Evaluation & Endorsement – CleanTechnica
• Better clean energy choices for America – Washington Post
• “Too Much Solar in Germany” – Lenz Blog
• Sandy Shows Us Why We Can’t Afford Dirty Energy – Steven Anderson
  

@SolarWakeup follower of the Day

• @SolectriaRen
  

Have a great day!

Yann

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

#10 Give President Obama Four More Years – Solar Power World Magazine

#9 The U.S. solar market: mixed views – Desert Sun

#8 New York’s Blueprint for Solar Growth – CleanTechies

#7 Solar Failing Because We’re Subsidizing The Wrong Side – KCET

#6 Behind the Scenes in Solar M&A – greentech solar

#5 Solar Panels No Savior in a Blackout – Bloomberg

#4 Solar Market Insight: Quotes From the Solar Panels – greentech solar

#3 Obama promises more solar subsidies – Human Events

#2 Mega-Company Says The Solar Market Is Crashing – Business Insider

#1 US Solar Overview From GTM Research – greentech media

The most important story you missed this week

The WTO vs. Ontario: Bigger Picture of Trade and Energy – RE World

Have a great weekend!

Yann

Wakeup Thoughts: Next week we elect the President.  What impact will the election have on solar energy? It has been interesting to see where many of our policies came from, ITC, loan guarantees etc all started during a second term Presidency.  

News

• National Solar Jobs Census 2012 – Solar Foundation
• Renewable Energy Flourishes Despite End of Grant – Novogradac
• With or without subsidies, the work continues – Houston Chronicle
• Utility-Scale Installations Lead US Solar PV Growth
• Utility PV Developers Confront Future of Projects – greentech solar
• Volatility of Renewables Pushes Europe Back Toward Coal – NY Times
• Solyndra Judge’s Approval of Bankruptcy Plan Appealed – Bloomberg
• Cleantech Cos with Most VC Funding Face Difficult Path – PE Hub

Opinions

• Wrong on Al Gore, Wrong on Renewables – Elliot Negin
• The Republican Rejection of a Green Future – Bloomberg
• Solar Energy Could Solve Developing Nations’ Problems – AOL Energy
• In Sandy’s Wake: Couldn’t Solar Do Something? – Solar Power World

@SolarWakeup follower of the Day

• @SolarOption
  

Have a great weekend!

Yann