Brazil is having a second big event this week after a presidential election. Tomorrow Brazil hosts its first solar only auction and is expected to add more than 500mw of capacity. It will be intriguing to see at what price the solar energy is successful at achieving. At the end of the day it means another major market that becomes a little bit more familiar with solar in this case a country with over 200 million residents. Best of luck to the bidders and congrats to Brazil on an exciting day.
Yann
News
1 Technology Review:
Will a Breakthrough Solar Technology See the Light of Day?
3 Reuters:
Brazil's first solar power auction to clear 500 MW of new plants
4 Slate:
How do you make ray-soaking roof panels a hot investment? By making them a boring one
5 Voanews:
Solar's Future Looks Brighter
6 Capital Newyork:
LIPA to conduct internal review of solar contract
7 PV Magazine:
Greek PV market remains idle, defined by paradox
8 Breaking Energy:
New York Green Bank Begins Transactions
Opinions:
9 Renewable Energy World:
German Experts Lock Horns over Storage
Have a great day!
Yann
China is moving in on Russian solar while at the same time Sunedison’s Terraform is going shopping. Not part of the rundown but in separate news sources, TERP financed and acquired new projects from other funds. The entry to solar in used to be “We want to own and hold” but holding solar assets has become so competitive that owning may have become the new solar commodity.
Yann
News
1 Clean Technica:
US Solar Now 59% Cheaper Than Analysts Predicted Back In 2010
2 RT:
China expected to invest $1bn in Russian solar energy
3 Think Progress:
Florida Residents Rally Against Rick Scott’s Solar-Killing Policies
4 PV Magazine:
Alevo sets up gigfab in US, expands storage operations in China
5 PV Solar Report:
How to Reach and Acquire Residential Solar Customers
6 Solar Industry Mag:
The Search For Solar Cost Reduction Turns To Racking And Mounting
7 Bloomberg:
While You Were Getting Worked Up Over Oil Prices, This Just Happened to Solar
8 Renewable Energy World:
Part 2
Opinions:
9 EDF:
Barriers to clean energy financing could fall with EPA plan
Have a great day!
Yann
Love it or hate it, the SolarCity story is a great example of American business success. Great idea, lots of barriers, hurdles and pain helped by visionaries and forward thinking investors. Fast forward less than 10 years and the ideas have burgeoned into the residential solar industry we have today with multiple Billion dollar companies. I didn’t see it then but I am happy that residential solar entrepreneurs are getting the publicity now.
Yann
News
1 Entrepreneur:
This Elon Musk-Backed Startup's Rocky Road to Solar 'Grand Slam'
2 NY Times:
Europe Strives to Overcome Its Reliance on Russian Gas
3 Grist:
Black lawmakers push back against coal utilities’ new trick
4 ABC News:
Electric-Car Drivers Trading Gas for Solar Power
5 PV Magazine:
Utility scale solar tops 30 GW globally, finds Wiki-Solar
6 Renew Economy:
How Coalition proposes to kill $20 billion renewables industry
7 Thinkprogress:
How Solar PV Can Power A Carbon-Free Energy Revolution, In 4 Charts
8 Edf:
Germany’s Energiewende is Shifting the Energy Paradigm – Now it’s Time to Optimize
Opinions:
9 Renewable Energy World:
How the Right Kind of Electric Utility Can Increase Solar Energy and Jobs
Have a great day!
Yann
Since I didn’t make it to the main stage during SPI, today’s news catch me a bit off guard. The trade fight continues and from the press side of things it does not appear positive which is a shame. Seeing additional news out of EU make this smell a bit fishy and coordinated but maybe I am reading into this a bit too much or maybe not. Why this keeps happening is beyond me…why anyone wants to keep solar from getting installed is just plain silly.
Yann
News
2 Renewable Energy World:
SolarWorld To US Solar Developers
3 Huffingtonpost:
Five Principles for Taming the Wild West of Beyond the Grid Clean Energy Policy
4 PV-Magazine:
Deutsche Bank
5 PV Solar Report:
DOE Still Betting Big on Solar, Says Energy Secretary Moniz at SPI
6 Renew Economy:
Australia installs 1GW of rooftop solar since July 2013
7 WTSP:
Energy activists want answers from candidates
8 Triple Pundit:
SunShot Helps Bay Area Startups Drive Down Solar Costs
Have a great day!
Yann
