These are the top 10 most read solar articles by your peers this week!
News
1 Bloomberg:
SunEdison's Chapter 11 Filing Leaves the Renewable Energy Industry Unfazed
2 Fortune:
Ray Kurzweil - Here's Why Solar Will Dominate Energy Within 12 Years
3 PV-Tech:
SunShot Initiative’s ‘Orange Button’ program to slash solar finance costs
4 Think Progress:
We Fact-Checked A High-Profile Article On Energy. It Wasn’t Pretty.
5 Bloomberg:
An Unlikely Alliance Is Born in the Battle Over Solar Power
6 Greentech Media:
Rhone Resch Is Stepping Down as Leader of SEIA
7 New York Times:
An Energy Bill in Need of Fixes
8 Motley Fool:
3 Lessons the Solar Industry Has Learned the Hard Way
9 Greentech Media:
As More Corporations Go Solar, How Are the Deals Structured?
10 Vox:
How cheap does solar power need to get before it takes over the world?
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
The worst kept secret in solar and Wall Street was the imminent Chapter 11 filing by Sunedison. Trading at 1% of their stock price from a year ago, the fall looks like a culmination of bad management decisions. With $16billion of liabilities in the filing, it had nothing to do with the solar industry and everything with an inability to pay liabilities. I like the people at Sunedison and I was hoping that this would not happen. What bothered me the most about the messaging is that the blame is being put on the capital markets (see #4). Don’t blame an industry that is growing and going well for the failure, we never asked you to become a ‘supermajor’.
Opinion
News
1 Bloomberg:
SunEdison's Filing Leaves the Renewable Energy Industry Unfazed
2 Fortune:
SunEdison's Epic Failure Had Little to Do With Clean Energy
3 Greentech Media:
The US Solar Market Is Now 1 Million Installations Strong
4 Think Progress:
We Fact-Checked A High-Profile Article On Climate And Energy. It Wasn’t Pretty.
5 EDF:
The Supreme Court Continues a Trend of Protecting Competitive Markets. Here’s Why it Matters for Ohio.
6 Forbes:
Emerging Markets Draw Solar Developers
7 Utility Dive:
Indiana Supreme Court rules to keep lawmaker-utility emails private
8 Renew Economy:
Rooftop solar gets cheaper finance with first green bond in Australia
Opinions:
9 Renewable Energy World:
A Cleantech Recipe that Finally Works - Student Entrepreneurs
Have a great day!
Yann
It is compromise week, in New York and DC. In New York the IOUs and solar developers negotiated a compromise around net metering. In this iteration, the policy looks like it will largely remain the same for a few years before going along with a formula that will create long term certainty for new solar installations. In the Senate, the energy bill passed. On a bullet point basis, it looks like a State by State wish list for certain easements and land use rights. It still needs to reconcile with the House which should happen over the next few months if there is appetite to get the deal done.
Opinion
News
1 New York Times:
An Energy Bill in Need of Fixes
2 Bloomberg:
An Unlikely Alliance Is Born in the Battle Over Solar Power
3 PV-Tech:
Polysilicon producer Hemlock suing JA Solar for almost US$1 billion
4 Green Biz:
We Mean Business - The Paris Accord is a $13 trillion opportunity
5 Greentech Media:
As More Corporations Go Solar, How Are the Deals Structured?
6 Fortune:
There Will Be More New Jobs in Solar Than Oil by the End of the Year
7 PV-Magazine:
Total to create new Gas, Renewables and Power segment
8 Vox:
San Francisco is requiring solar panels on all new buildings. But here's a much greener idea.
Opinions:
9 Utility Dive:
Minnesota judge urges higher carbon price to guide utility system planning
Have a great day!
Yann
This week there was an energy conference hosted by Platts in Las Vegas. Apparently, according to Power Finance & Risk, some IPP execs went a bit negative on the subsidies thrown at renewables. They are obviously confused considering their fuels receive billions more in subsidies but I understand their frustration. The wholesale markets are changing and being an IPP means you depend on the ability to trade and monetize your energy in those markets. There are several things happening here to try and add more value to firm capacity to allow power plants to make more money. Maryland in some way attempted to do that but a judge has sided with FERC against the rule (story #2 today). Keep watching this space…
Opinion
News
1 Utility Dive:
'Graceful transition' - ISO-NE's CEO on how wholesale markets can ease decarbonization
2 PV-Tech:
US Trade Representative - India’s tit-for-tat WTO filings not helpful
3 NRDC:
Supreme Court Decision Striking Down Maryland Program Contains Good News for Clean Power
4 Bloomberg:
New York Utilities, Solar Companies Offer Alternate Payment Plan
5 PV-Magazine:
New Development Bank greenlights $811 million for renewable energy in member countries
6 San Francisco Examiner:
Leading the way on solar energy
7 Florida Times Union:
JEA delays vote on rooftop solar changes
8 Phoenix New Times:
Sparks fly in New Arizona Solar- Energy- Initiative Campaign
Opinions:
9 Huffington Post:
Fossil Fuel Companies Need to Become Renewable Energy Companies
Have a great day!
Yann
