This is your SolarWakeup for January 14th, 2014
4 year ago, a couple of Ex-Apple employees decided to create a thermostat, yesterday they sell Nest for $3.2Billion to Google. Solar has similar stories that will become more common. I have a particular affinity for solar startups. One reason is that my "day-job" is a solar startup and another is that it is extremely rewarding to help people with really good ideas. Check out a fellow DoE SunShot award winner, Folsom Labs. A great tool for anyone that sells, installs, develops solar. -->Link on the right!
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This is your SolarWakeup for January 13th, 2014
Excited to create some original news content for you. After the feedback about the White House solar installation late last year, we will be writing on important issues that mesh with the daily thoughts. Stay tuned for more coverage of the Colorado PUC proceedings that will heat up in early February.
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Top 10 most read solar articles by your peers this week!
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. These are the top 10 most read solar articles by your peers this week! #1 NY Times: Solar Power Craze on Wall St. Propels Start-Up #2 Renew Economy: Deutsche Bank predicts second solar “gold-rush” #3 CleanTechnica: China Withdraws Support For 75% Of Solar Manufacturers #4 Business Insider: Here Are The Four Major Survivors Of The Great US Solar Cull #5 GigaOm: An open invitation to 60 Minutes to … Read More
This is your SolarWakeup for January 10th, 2014
Yesterday we brought up the new battleground for ALEC's fight against solar. The best thing that solar can do to wage this battle is expand the levels of profitability in the solar value chain. The more profits that flow through our companies, the bigger of the budgets of our industry advocates should become.
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This is your SolarWakeup for January 9th, 2014
Pushing anti-solar policies and having utilities fight for them is one thing. But the permanent placement of an ALEC legislator to the State Utilities Commission is something that solar cannot stand for. Our battles will be fought and won or lost at State Utilities Boards. The commissions and their staff make the decisions about projects, policies and the details of regulations. Insurance requirements for net metered solar? PUCs. Application fees for residential solar interconnection? PUCs. Everything goes back to PUCs. This is our battle, commissions are our battleground. We have to win here.
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This is your SolarWakeup for January 8th, 2014
Germany produced almost 5% of its energy with solar and California peaked at 3GW of solar last year, neither grid broke, collapsed, or failed to do as expected. Utilities will keep up the story about how bad it is and unfair solar is for the grid infrastructure. At the same time, those companies will invest in solar projects at the lowest debt rates because of consumer guaranteed returns on investments.
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This is your SolarWakeup for January 7th, 2014
At a certain point solar is going to cross the "surprise, there are good things happening in solar" threshold. Goldman Sachs put SCTY on the conviction buy list and Deutsche Bank calls for the second solar gold rush. Great things are happening in solar, write about it or pitch your story to a solar publication. If you need help, let me know.
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This is your SolarWakeup for January 6th, 2014
There are good vibrations in 2014 for solar. No longer the underdog, solar is coming on strong and ready to go in the new year. While 60 Minutes tries to get cheap ratings with a cleantech hit piece, it hardly deserves a response. A coordinate renewables response may come out but don't expect a SEIA press release on the topic, we are beyond it at this point. Onward!
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Top 10 most read solar articles by your peers this week!
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. These are the top 10 most read solar articles by your peers this week! #1 CNN Money: Ford to debut solar car #2 Greentech Media: Better Racking Drives Down Solar’s Soft Costs #3 Red, Green and Blue: Good Riddance, Max Baucus, You Anti-Solar Tool! #4 Quartz: Why China is building a massive solar power plant in the middle of nowhere #5 Forbes: A U.S. Solar Company Makes A … Read More
This is your SolarWakeup for January 2nd, 2014
Solar farms to supply the grid, solar on your house to supply your usage at home and on your business for when you are at work. Now use that energy for your electric car (a Tesla perhaps?) but now put solar on your electric car! That is exactly what Ford is going to do and unveil at the CES show next year. As a business point, I drive a volt and have a US Bank operating lease (they took the $7,500 tax credit) for the car. Maybe solar on a car will present a lease opportunity for residential lease providers? Any lawyers want to opine on the ITC for solar cars?
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