Please take a moment and write a letter to the editor of your local newspaper supporting solar.  Send it to me and I will post it online!

News

• Local Governments Launch Ambitious Energy Program – Herald Online
• Solar Industry Ads: The Good, the Bad, and the Sexist – greentechmedia
• Resch: Solar Means Business – Huffington Post
• Southwest needs power lines to become solar hub – Bloomberg
• PACE To The Rescue? Solar Program Goes Statewide In CA – Solar Industry
• Group Calls For Strict Limits on Solar Power Near National Parks – KCET
• Feds ignore stimulus rules to buy Chinese solar panels – Washington Times
• Clean energy home loans favored – Park Record
• Getting Real on Jobs and the Environment – truthout
• Communities collaborate on solar projects – USA Today

Opinions

• How a Romney Could Destroy Alternative Energy Investing – Insider Monkey
• SPI Debriefing: Solar Will Power On – Power Engineering
• Time for a Paradigm Shift in Clean Energy? – Huffington Post
• Main: Build the solar industry in Virginia – Richmond Times-Dispatch

@SolarWakeup follower of the Day

• @BeyondSunnyMone

Have a great day!

Yann

Please pass the SolarWakeup around to your co-workers, it is important for us to know the good and bad press coverage we get so as an industry we can respond.

News

• Connecticut’s $1B energy program hits early snags – Hartford Business
• S.F. weighing green alternative to PG&E – San Francisco Chronicle
• Sunny outlook from Florida despite likely storms – PVTech
• EU Backs German Plan for China Talks on Solar Spat, Merkel Says – Bloomberg
• Clean Energy Finance 3.0 – The Rise of the State Green Banks – NRDC
• NH island resort hopes it can become energy innovation showcase – Fox News
• Firm Closes $7 Million Venture Loan to SolarBridge – Solar Power World

Opinions

• It’s Time To Tell Our Own Solar Story – Solar Power World
• Questionable Solar Math at the Wall Street Journal – American Thinker
• What President Clinton Wants You to Know About U.S. Solar Power – HuffPo
• Letter: Proposal to have 25×25 will cost MI billions – MLive

@SolarWakeup follower of the Day

• @TheSolarCo

Have a great weekend!

Yann

Please pass the SolarWakeup around to your co-workers, it is important for us to know the good and bad press coverage we get so as an industry we can respond.

News

• The Economics of Installing Solar – Wall Street Journal
• Clean-tech investing littered with mines – Pensions & Investments
• Proposal 3 proponents say ballot issue is all about jobs – mLive
• Shedding Light on Subisidies – Wall Street Journal
• House bill curtails Solyndra-like loans – SF Chronicle
• Solar installations heating up for Memphis businesses – Commercial Appeal
• 6 Amazing Homes Competing in the 2012 Solar Decathlon Europe! – inhabitat

Opinions

• Noahpinion’s Two Errors About Free Trade – Forbes
• Federal Housing Finance Agency can fire up PACE – cleanenergy.org
• House Passes Solyndra Act Aimed at Obama – NY Times
• Oil Industry’s Ad Budget Huge, But We Don’t Have to Believe – HuffPo Green
• FUGLEBERG: Red states equal green jobs – Star Tribune
• Looking into the solar – News & Observer

@SolarWakeup follower of the Day

• @SolarFrankA

Have a great weekend!

Yann

I hope everyone enjoyed SPI 2012! Please pass the SolarWakeup around to your co-workers, it is important for us to know the good and bad press coverage we get so as an industry we can respond.

News

• 20 biggest corporate investors in on-site solar technology – GreenTech Pastures
• Clinton At SPI: ‘You’re Going To Win This Battle’ – Solar Industry
• Clinton to Solar: ‘You Represent the Future’ and ‘You Will Prevail’ – greentechmedia
• President Bill Clinton addresses the solar industry – Solar Novus
• Fossil Fuel Industry Ads Dominate TV Campaign – NY Times
• Fumbling Federal Agency Slows the PACE of Energy Efficiency – Huffington Post
• China’s solar power investment to hit $39.5B by 2015 – ZDNet Asia
• House To Vote On ‘No More Solyndras’ Act – Solar Industry
• Presidential race energizes this year’s solar-industry convention – Orlando Sentinel
• $10 Million SunShot Prize for Cheap Rooftop Solar – CleanTechnica

Opinions

• Energy democracy: Three ways to bring solar to the masses – grist
• Solar Better Under Romney or Obama? – greentechmedia
• (Solar) Power to the People?– Forbes
• Is solar leasing good for the consumer? – CleanEnergy Authority
• Solar eclipsed? – The Commentator

@SolarWakeup follower of the Day

• @DanielGDay

Have a great weekend!

Yann