Top 10 most read solar articles by your peers this week!
These are the top 10 most read solar articles by your peers this week!
These are the top 10 most read solar articles by your peers this week! #1 Toledo Blade: Solar-panel maker shuts down #2 NY Times: Activist Investor Helps a Solar Power Company Turn Itself Around #3 Motley Fool: Which of These 3 Solar Companies Can Make You Rich? #4 SF Gate: Sungevity shows how solar panels will look on your house #5 GTM: Critics Say MA New Solar Bill Would Create an Unfair Exchange #6 PV-Tech: Top US residential installers tighten grip on market #7 CleanTechnica: Florida Utilities Working To Crush Nascent Solar Industry #8 GTM: What You Need to Know About How Clean Energy YieldCos Work #9 CleanTechnica: SolarCity and SunRun vs Arizona Department Of Revenue #10 Vegas Journal: No significant … Read More
This is your SolarWakeup for July 11th, 2014
A great week in the books with Intersolar wrapping up. Some interesting news coming from the show which we will share with you next week. One overarching theme is apparent, solar is not alone anymore. We are interconnected within our own value chain and other industries like storage, home automation and efficiency. Above all, the energy sector remains a finance industry, with so many attendees once again wearing the suit and tie (except the team at Shoals!)
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This is your SolarWakeup for July 10th, 2014
I think we need to continue to look at the role of grid operators (utilities) play in the solar business. Intersolar is an interesting place to look at that because the show promoter is not directly tied to the money coming from utilities. I think EDF is right in today's opinion story that utilities need to change, mostly on the fact that solving their solar non-problem is to own solar (behind the meter) assets as ratepayer cost recovered. UOG (utility owned generation) HAS to be focused on centralized solar farms, controlling behind the meter assets means controlling the market growth and that is bad for everyone in solar, including the bands that battled tonight at Intersolar.
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This is your SolarWakeup for July 9th, 2014
The 1st day of Intersolar is behind us and things are looking good. Lots of news coming on partnerships, innovation and victories that will grow markets and opportunities for solar companies. More coverage coming from areas that currently have little solar like Florida and that worked to stop solar like Maine. Solar is working on a 50 State strategy and it will be in effect in no time at all.
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This is your SolarWakeup for July 8th, 2014
Lots of respect for GTM, but I can't agree in widening the tent for more utility involvement in distributed solar. As we gather at Intersolar, ongoing battles across the Country show that utilities will do anything to keep and grow their monopolies. In Arizona the utility will go to any length to buy political representation. Take a look at an impartial view of the situation in Arizona in the AZ Central article to see for yourself.
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This is your SolarWakeup for July 7th, 2014
Good morning from somewhere over Georgia as I make my cross-country flight to Intersolar. Expect some new and more frequent updates from SWu throughout the week. If you are at Intersolar, make sure to say hello. If you want to make sure I see something in particular, let me know. If you are a Germany soccer fan, like me, then reach out as I will be hosting some loyal fans for a game watch on Tuesday.
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Top 10 most read solar articles by your peers this week!
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Original Article from SolarWakeup This Week SolarWakeup: Solar Forecast: Sunny After Some Scattered Clouds These are the top 10 most read solar articles by your peers this week! #1 RenewEconomy: Utilities move to kick rooftop solar off the grid #2 CleanTechnica: Residential Solar Cheaper Than Grid Electricity In 25 States #3 RE World: Storm Clouds Gathering Over the US Solar Industry #4 Bill Gates: We Need Energy Miracles #5 Gigaom: This startup says it can make the world’s cheapest solar panels #6 Red, Green & Blue: Can’t We Get A Restraining Order Against Xcel Already? #7 Black Star: Net Metering and Its Potential Impact on Low-Income Consumers #8 Times Picayune: Consultant tapped for state solar study too … Read More
This is your SolarWakeup for July 3rd, 2014
Continuing the trend from yesterday, catch the buzz words. PSC in Florida says NEM was meant to 'prime the pump' and MI utilities are ready to 'develop subsidy free' programs. But let's get real about how solar impacts low income families. Solar creates price stability and lowers the cost of energy. More importantly, as the NAACP points out in their report, solar is a job opportunity for low and middle class families. Installation jobs are open all over the Country and have an average pay of over $23/hour. The NAACP is right, solar is good for families everywhere, something the author of the top article hasn't studied quite yet.
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This is your SolarWakeup for July 2nd, 2014
For any of you fortunate enough to work on solar policy, your jobs are safe. The daily onslaught of regulatory filings against solar and utility commission (bought by the utilities) games is hard to follow. From the Florida PSC literally denying access to solar in a hearing, Louisiana PSC hiring a utility front for a study, Utilities buying commissioners in Arizona, it is a handful for everyone involved. I tend to track on the higher levels, but I would not have seen the 50 State battle lines in our future but that is where we are heading.
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This is your SolarWakeup for July 1st, 2014
I was intrigued yesterday when I read the SEPA blog for the first time of many that day. First reaction, SEPA put in writing exactly what we expected. They are pro-solar and pro-growth but also pro-utility. Utilities like solar in 2 cases, when they get to invest in it in 49 States they don't operate in and as utility owned generation (UOG, remember this term) at home. Today is the time for SEIA to make their statement. SEIA has yet to sign the Solar Pledge, some State chapters have, but national SEIA has not. Today is the day that SEIA has to decide that they believe in the non-SEPA version of net metering, fair and open for ALL participants without preferential treatment for any incumbent parties.
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