Yes, you will lose your job but you will gain your life, your health and your ability to provide for your family. You will not see the inside of a deep coal mine again, suffering from lung disease and instead will have the ability to improve the air and energy sector of your community. Coal is going out of style and coal miners are losing their jobs but they are welcome and able to come to the solar industry and enjoy gainful employment. The only thing in the way is the political will of their State leaders still clinging on the hopes of a dirty, dying coal sector. CoalWakeup.com will not be rising from the ashes but all their readers are always welcome here…
Opinion
News
1 Grist:
Clinton is making coal country a generous offer, but it’s not buying
2 Greentech Media:
New York’s Full Value Tariff Could Be a Radical Departure From Net Metering
3 PV-Magazine:
Puerto Rico proposes changes to its net metering program
4 CleanTechnica:
Lux Research - Perovskite Solar Cells Technology Improving, Commercialization Likely In 2019
5 PV-Tech:
TerraForm Global rejects bondholders’ default warning
6 Renewable Energy World:
Germany Achieves Milestone – Renewables Supply Nearly 100 Percent Energy for a Day
7 Think Progress:
Renewables Are Leaving Natural Gas In The Dust This Year
8 Utility Dive:
Renewables advocates ask Minnesota regulators to streamline DER interconnection
Opinions:
9 Energy Collective:
A Vision for Article 6 of the Paris Agreement
Have a great day!
Yann
There’s some solar policy spinning going on in Maine. On a national level, the solar industry has to play a long game. This means that at times we have to give up some short term market certainty for a better market in the long run. It is easy to blame the ‘big solar companies’ but I wouldn’t be so fast to judge. I’ve been in the room with the utility where they try to dole out some small incentives and get the buy-in from the local installer in order to maintain their lock on the Statewide market. At the end of the day, politics is not a spectator sport.
Opinion
News
1 Portland Press Herald:
Big solar worked to kill Maine solar energy bill
2 Greentech Media:
AES CEO - Solar Is ‘the Future’ but Utility Buy-In Is a Must
3 PV-Magazine:
SunEdison delays quarterly filing, parts ways with CFO
4 PV-Tech:
Renewables on the rise for Germany’s ‘Big Four’ utilities, conventional generation suffers
5 CleanTechnica:
Debunking 4 Myths About The Clean Energy Transition, Part 2 - Excess Generation
6 Renew Economy:
Solar lobby targets marginal seats in election campaign
7 Advanced Energy Economy:
NEWS - An ISO for Hawaii? Utilities Double Down on Renewables
8 Utility Dive:
Major US companies launch Renewable Energy Buyers Alliance
Opinions:
9 Forbes:
The Solar Story Is Just Beginning
Have a great day!
Yann
These are the top 10 most read solar articles by your peers this week!
News
1 NJ Biz:
NRG streamlining, with renewed focus and some job losses expected
2 PV-Magazine:
Elon Musk calls for mass political mobilization and a price on carbon
3 New York Times:
As West Virginia Goes…
4 Bloomberg:
Riding the ‘Solarcoaster’ as Shares Plunge Even More Than Coal
5 Huffington Post:
Disrupting Solar
6 Bloomberg:
Once a Billionaire, Miao Is Latest Humbled China Solar King
7 Huffington Post:
Why Is L.A. Toxic?
8 Motley Fool:
Last Week in Solar
9 Renewable Energy World:
Massachusetts Utility Seeks to Stay “Ahead of the Game”
10 New York Times:
New York Plans to Make Fighting Climate Change Good Business
The Top 10 is ranked by the number of SolarWakeup.com readers that clicked on the news article during the previous week. It is the poll of the most relevant solar news of the week as judged by your colleagues and competitors.
Have a great day!
Yann
Yingli is falling into issues as it missed another debt payment. It is very important for you to know how to manage your part of the value chain in the appropriate way. For example, if you sell widgets then you have to manage your receivables and margins while capital deployment platforms must remain debt free at the corporate level. Sunedison and Yingli are not examples that indicate an issue within solar, they indicate an issue with executives managing money inappropriately.
Opinion
News
1 PV-Tech:
Yingli Green officially defaults on China bonds
2 Bloomberg:
Once a Billionaire, Miao Is China’s Latest Humbled Solar King
3 Renewable Energy World:
Massachusetts Utility Seeks to Stay “Ahead of the Game” with Solar Grid Penetration
4 NJ Spotlight:
PSE&G LOOKS FOR STATE APPROVAL TO SPEND $275 MILLION ON SOLAR FARMS
5 PV-Magazine:
Sunrun reports strong growth in Q1 results
6 Vox:
The US is badly underinvesting in electricity infrastructure
7 Utility Dive:
Utilities, greens still miles apart on solar valuation, new report shows
8 Economic times:
India plans to seek bilateral solutions to settle solar disputes US
Opinions:
9 GreenBiz:
One way to sell a tax on carbon - Cut other taxes
Have a great day!
Yann
