These are the top 10 most read solar articles by your peers this week!
News
1 MIT:
A Promising Step Toward Round-the-Clock Solar Power
2 Renew Economy:
Solar costs heading to 4c/kWh, rooftop solar seen “unbeatable”
3 Forbes:
In Colorado, a New Solar Model Takes Root
4 Wash Post:
Benefits of solar panels clear after two years
5 Bloomberg:
Property Tycoon Reveals $20 Billion Solar-Led Portfolio
6 GTM:
How a Top Liberal State Is Creating a Market That Conservatives Should Love
7 Bloomberg:
Blackstone Scores $1.1 Billion Gain in Vivint Solar Debut
8 PV Magazine:
Sunrun announces expansion plans
9 Biz Journals:
RGS Energy to exit commercial solar, focus on residential
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
Let’s reiterate the point from yesterday. Game on in residential solar. Now NRG announces the acquisition of Pure Energies to grow the customer acquisition pipeline. The new frontiers geographically will be another race as you can tell by the comments in the interview with $VSLR CEO. Some subtle news from the Vivint Solar roadshow, it appears that the company will be transitioning to string inverters from micro inverters. I’d love to take credit for that but I doubt the SWu article had anything to do with it.
Yann
News
1 Globe & Mail:
U.S. firm buys Toronto solar installer in push for residential
2 Fortune:
Vivint Solar CEO talks IPO
3 Guardian:
UK renewable energy subsidy changes anger solar industry
4 Scientific American:
Power Companies in Japan Move to Restrict Solar
5 RE World:
The Six Principles of Distributed Solar Policy and Rate Design
6 PV-Tech:
China dominated US$55 billion of global clean energy investment in Q3
7 Think Progress:
How To Make Fighting Climate Change Work For Workers
8 Bloomberg:
Battery Storage Targeted by German State That Built Solar
Opinions:
9 CleanTechnica:
Why Utilities Don’t Invest More In Solar (VIDEO)
Have a great day!
Yann
IPOs, funding and corporate development. Vivint Solar is now $VSLR and aims to be the second largest residential provider in a few years, I think I know a few good people on Market Street that will make sure that doesn’t happen. Another good IPO however that showed upside which could open the door for more and that may have been the underlying reason for a $15mm raise by Verengo. Real Good also shifting to pure residential…game on!
Yann
News
1 Bloomberg:
Blackstone Scores $1.1 Billion Gain in Vivint Solar Debut
2 PV-magazine:
Scatec Solar completes IPO after delay
3 Bizjournals:
RGS Energy to exit commercial solar power installation, focus on residential
5 PV-tech:
Japan government confirms end-of-year review for FiT
6 Reneweconomy:
Energy storage
7 Utilitydive:
California real-time market opens to outside systems
8 Forbes:
In Colorado, a New Solar Model Takes Root
Opinions:
9 Renewable Energy World:
A Bounty of Shared Solar
Have a great day!
Yann
The new Prime-Minister from India was in the US this week. For many years, there has been whispers about the scale of the India solar market. Those news continue and some like Sunedison and First Solar appear to be partaking in the market. Others swear that they will have nothing to do with the market. Chasing new markets is also true in the US, so I want to know from you, what makes up your decision tree about looking into new markets?
Yann
News
1 The Guardian:
Can Narendra Modi bring the solar power revolution to India?
2 Bloomberg:
Property Tycoon Reveals $20 Billion Solar-Led Portfolio
3 Midwest Energy:
Cost of solar permitting swings widely in Minnesota
4 Reneweconomy:
Solar costs heading to 4c/kWh, rooftop solar seen “unbeatable”
5 Pv-magazine:
Trina Solar issues $100 million convertible notes
6 Clean Technica:
Australian Leaders Begin Dancing Around Renewable Energy Talks
7 Pv-tech:
Dozens of developers show interest in Hawaii’s big storage proposal
8 EDF:
Is Global Clean Energy Investment at a Tipping Point?
Opinions:
9 Washington Post:
Benefits of solar panels clear after two years
Have a great day!
Yann
