This is your SolarWakeup for April 14th, 2014
Do you pay attention to the politics in your State? Do You help push for the legislation that will make sure your business has an equal opportunity to acquire and serve customers so they may produce energy for decades to come? This week, we will take a look at the Top 4 tactics being used by anti-solar companies to try and hurt your business. Tomorrow starts with #1, what policy similarities did the bill in WA and SC have in common?
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Top 10 most read solar articles by your peers this week!
This Week's SolarWakeup Original Story
This Week’s SolarWakeup Original Story Solar’s $3.64Million Uphill Fight in Florida These are the top 10 most read solar articles by your peers this week! #1 RE World: Guess Who Is Buying Solar PV? #2 Bloomberg: Solar CEO Says Threat to Utilities Greatly Exaggerated #3 Watchdog: Feds to troll SolarCity books while company seeks another $14.6M #4 Bloomberg: Renewable Yieldcos Offer ‘Cheapest’ Equity #5 Business Insider: Solar Has Been Waiting 60 Years For This To Happen #6 CleanTechnica: Solar Storage Scandal In California (In Depth) #7 GreenBiz: 4 ways to make solar financing less weird #8 GTM: A Rising Tension: ‘Value-of-Solar’ Tariff Versus Net Metering #9 The Atlantic: What an Energy Revolution Doesn’t Look … Read More
This is your SolarWakeup for April 11th, 2014
Solar has done well by focusing the sales focus on saving the customer money. But part of every project is the customer's ability to produce their own energy and hedge against utility rate increases. This is clearly an the advantage created by net metering, a policy that allows solar producers to use the electricity behind the meter. Going back on this policy may sound like it helps solar in the short term but make no mistake about it, value of solar tariffs give the benefits of solar production to the utility not the solar producer.
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This is your SolarWakeup for April 10th, 2014
Having studies physics in the Bloomberg building in college, I have a natural affinity for Mike Bloomberg, especially when I agree with what he says. "If the Chinese want to support our economy, send it in, babes" was Bloomberg's quote yesterday from the BNEF conference. I think he would add that if the trade levies are based on complaints by companies owned by a Middle Eastern Oil and Gas Country, the motives should be taken into account. SolarWorld AG is after all owned 30% by Qatar, the richest Country in the World.
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This is your SolarWakeup for April 9th, 2014
"We are long money and short deals", that's the word from Jigar Shah. I couldn't agree with him more, there are many investors looking for deals and all good deals get funded. Keyword being, good deals, which require positive returns and most importantly offtaker credit. Even the rush of residential deals require offtakers having a FICO score above 680. I personally know of ways that this problem is being fixed, once that is scaled, we may just be....long solar.
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This is your SolarWakeup for April 8th, 2014
No surprise that big oil spends $56M in California lobbying for their piece of the pie, we already saw similar IOU spending in Florida to the tune of $3.6M. In Arizona, APS spent millions in dark money to fight against net metering which is now hurting the shareholders as APS parent is downgraded by analysts for failing to see the future. Tomorrow, we will take a look at what solar can learn from this and more.
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This is your SolarWakeup for April 7th, 2014
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These are the top 10 most read solar articles by your peers this week! #1 CleanTechnica: Solar Storage Scandal In California #2 Greenville News: Bill would allow Duke to monopolize solar energy #3 Tampa Times: Popular proposed tax break for solar blocked in Florida House #4 Solar Server: SunEdison launches YieldCo with $250M from Goldman Sachs #5 WSJ: Should Solar Owners Pay for Grid? SunRun vs Edison Int’l #6 Forbes: 3 Utilities Most Likely To Fall In Death Spiral #7 Forbes: Embattled Utilities Face ‘Talent Storm’ #8 Bloomberg: Mystery Property Tycoon Makes $533 Million Bet on Solar #9 Fortune: Eric Bolling gets his cleantech facts very wrong #10 Red, Green, Blue: We Love Solar So … Read More
This is your SolarWakeup for April 4th, 2014
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This is your SolarWakeup for April 3rd, 2014
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