This is your SolarWakeup for October 21st, 2013
News
1 Forbes:
China's Growing Role In The Global Solar Power Industry
2 Quartz:
Super-large-scale solar installations are surging in the US
3 AZ Central:
APS, solar companies clash over credits to customers
4 BizJournals:
How to apply for Broward’s new building energy retrofits
5 Energy Collective:
Transformative Solar Energy Storage Policy for California
6 GigaOm:
Cleantech VC investments crater, drop down to pre-2006 levels
7 Forbes:
Threatened By Renewable Energy Subsidies
8 RE World:
Why The Money's Flowing Into US Residential Solar Models
Opinions:
9 Tor Valenza:
25 Awareness Actions You Can Take to Make a Sound in Solar Forest
Have a great day!
Yann
Top 10 most read solar articles by your peers this week!
On October 23rd, SolarWakeup will have a special #SPICon edition. All stories will be direct from companies, so if you have a story that you want published, send it our way!
These are the top 10 most read solar articles by your peers this week! On October 23rd, SolarWakeup will have a special #SPICon edition. All stories will be direct from companies, so if you have a story that you want published, send it our way! On Sunday, SolarWakeup.com subscribers will be sent the first edition of the monthly Solar Marketing Insight, a SolarWakeup report on marketing trends in the solar industry! See you in Chicago! #1 GigaOm: Lessons from SunPower’s long and brutal road to becoming a solar giant #2 FastCompany: Time is Ripe for Energy Industry Disruption – Who’s Going To Do … Read More →
This is your SolarWakeup for October 18th, 2013
The solar industry is a gold rush where much of the gold is yet to be found. At this year's SPI show, an exciting section is exhibiting around booth #3650, the Solar Start-Up Alley. With venture capital looking at exciting startups throughout the solar industry, it is great to see these companies be given a place to show what is being worked on. Start-Up Alley, SfunCube and many other great paths are being created for solar innovation.
News
1 Bloomberg:
EBay, Ellison Embrace Microgrids in Threat to Utilities
2 Greentech Media:
5 Strategies Used to Acquire Residential Solar Customers
3 Solar Industry:
Solar Applicants Balk At The U.S. Treasury's Grant Haircuts
5 Grist:
California may force utilities to buy big batteries for renewables
6 NY Times:
Arizona Utility Tries Storing Solar Energy for Use in the Dark
7 Greentech Media:
Vivint Adds Half a Billion to Residential Solar Finance Surge
8 Forbes:
Chinese Billionaire Has Swooped On Cheap Western Solar Technology
Opinions:
9 RE World:
Forty Years Post-Oil Embargo
Have a great day!
Yann
This is your SolarWakeup for October 17th, 2013
On Monday, SolarWakeup.com will be publishing the first monthly Solar Marketing Insight, a report only available here. You will find the trending topics that are being read by you, the solar community. Find out when you read the most news, where you are going to read them and where in America you are based. If you are a marketing professional or PR pro, this is not a report that you will want to miss.
News
1 RE World:
Changing the Rules to Help Utilities Embrace the Future
2 Washington Post:
Changing the Rules to Help Utilities Embrace the Future
3 Greentech Media:
Why Charles Darwin Would Love Distributed Energy
4 AOL:
Solar Decathlon's Latest Designs for Affordable, Efficient Homes
5 PV-Tech:
Solar inverter shipments up 7% in 2013 but revenues to fall 9%
6 Earth Techling:
Big Solar, From Canada To The California Desert
7 Breaking Energy:
Journal Documents the Slow Death of European Utilities
8 Crowdfund Insider:
Mosaic Leads in Solar Funding with $5mm Crowdfunded
Opinions:
9 Solar Power World:
Solar Insights
Have a great day!
Yann
This is your SolarWakeup for October 16th, 2013
Vote Solar and SEIA put together their 2nd Solar Means Business report and hosted a Hangout about the results. Coming together with corporate sustainability executives, advocates and solar reporters to bring the results which show that corporate America knows the same thing we do. Solar Works!
News
1 Solar Power World:
Who’s Who Of U.S. Companies LOVE Solar
2 Washington Post:
Big box solar and the clean energy revolution
3 Greentech Media:
4 Major Rulings That Will Boost Solar and Energy Storage in CA
4 Clean Technica:
Ontario Kills Coal, But Local Renewables Program Falters
5 RE World:
New Litigation Trips Up Chinese Solar Recovery
6 Solar Industry:
When Disaster Strikes, Solar Has The Power To Save Lives
7 Breaking Energy:
Clean Energy Investment Dropping Again
8 GigaOm:
Lessons from SunPower’s long and brutal road to becoming a solar giant
Opinions:
9 Daily Finance:
Solar Power Is Upending the Energy Industry
Have a great day!
Yann
This is your SolarWakeup for October 15th, 2013
A great day of solar content, with that in mind, remember that next Wednesday is the special SPI edition. We will be at SPI all week tweeting with the conference #SPICon. Send us your news that you want to publish and they will be put on the SPI edition on October 23rd, and don't forget to say hello at the show!
News
1 RE World:
Solar Manufacturing Tidbits
2 Fast Company:
The Time is Ripe for Energy Disruption - Who's Going To Do It
3 Greentech Media:
Brightergy and Capstone Combine Distributed Gas and Solar
4 Solar Industry:
Solar Installs Up Amid Global Decline In Renewables Investment
5 Washington Post:
World Bank support for China solar may have cost U.S. jobs
6 NY Times:
A Staff of Robots
7 RE World:
How The Solar Decathlon Was Won
8 National Journal:
The Two Faces of California
Opinions:
9 Paula Mints:
The Aggressive Solar Pricing U-Turn that Was Impossible to Make
Have a great day!
Yann
This is your SolarWakeup for October 14th, 2013
CSI has effectively ended in California. The growth is continuing with high residential rates and cost effective utility solar. In the meantime, it appears that there is a constraint in the growth of commercial solar, an area where utilities make a lot of money and CSI may have had the biggest impact.
News
1 NREL:
Securitization Debt Fit with Tax Equity in the Solar Landscape? Pt. II
2 Greentech Media:
PV Growth Continues Even Without the California Solar Initiative
3 RE World:
Which Chinese Solar Companies Will Survive?
4 Examiner:
California solar users will subsidize non-solar residents by 2020
5 Discovery News:
Stunning Solar Homes Can Actually Be Affordable
6 USA Today:
Solar and wind innovation reflected in booming patents
7 St. Louis Post:
St. Louis energy savings program gets rolling
8 Charlotte Observer:
Solar farms not welcome in every neighborhood
Opinions:
9 Energy Collective:
Energy Truth
Have a great day!
Yann
This is your SolarWakeup for October 11th, 2013
Energy storage and advanced inverters will increase the value of distributed generation, make it safer and reduce the need to invest in transmission infrastructure. The question, as rightly posed by a writer, is who should bear the additional cost, or will a value of solar be the answer? How does this look in your opinion?
News
1 RE World:
SolarCity Buys Zep
2 NREL SACP:
How Securitization Debt Fit with Tax Equity in the Solar?
3 Greentech Media:
Selling Solar Door-to-Door Can Be Effective—Is It Efficient?
4 RE World:
The “Other” Type of Commercial Financing
5 Forbes:
Google The Power Player Invests In Another Giant Solar Farm
6 Energy Collective:
Who Should Bear the Costs of Advanced Inverters?
7 Guardian:
Is solar power facing a dim future?
8 Tor Valenza:
Watch This SEIA Video Roundtable on Solar Social Marketing
Opinions:
9 Breaking Energy:
Utility of the Future in an Evolving US Power Market
Have a great day!
Yann
This is your SolarWakeup for October 10th, 2013
VC Funding is picking up, at least the data points are pointing that out. We have seen some manufacturing deals but mostly smaller, downstream value chain companies raising capital. It makes sense, its more efficient from a capital standpoint and the rise of the "My company is built to be acquired by SCTY, Elon Musk will love this" is the new pitch! Congrats to the ZEP team for the acquisition.
News
1 Solar Power World:
Virginia’s PPA Bill Could Jumpstart The State’s Industry
2 Greentech Media:
AB 327 Signed Into Law in California, Warning From Brown
3 RE World:
Solar VC Funding
4 TreeHugger:
Could Mexico be at the start of a solar boom?
5 Chicago Tribune:
Solar panels gives electric cars another path
6 CleanTechnica:
Three Ways Automation Can Smash Interconnection Costs
7 Forbes:
SolarCity Buys Zep To Cut Labor Time For Rooftop Solar
8 Bloomberg:
U.K. Plans to Increase Solar Power Eight-Fold by 2020
Opinions:
9 Grist:
California utilities say, “No batteries for you!”
Have a great day!
Yann
This is your SolarWakeup for October 9th, 2013
A repeat of a mention from last week but IREC is doing some of the most important work behind the scenes. Today IREC announced the plan for valuing distributed solar generation, which will be a key for the net metering and utility impact studies that are continuing to come. Be sure to catch IREC's series and 3iAwards during #SPICon this year.
News
1 Solar Server:
IREC issues report for valuing distributed solar
2 Greentech Media:
3 Models That Could Help Utilities Make Money From Solar
3 Solar Industry:
Solar Sector Draws $207 Million From Venture Capital In Q3
4 Solar Power World:
First Australian Since 2002 Wins Solar Decathlon In China
5 Earth Techling:
On Lowering The Costs Of Solar PV (Part 2)
6 CleanTechnica:
Advantages & Disadvantages Of Solar Power
7 National Journal:
Oakland's Bid to Become a Solar-Power Hub
8 Bloomberg:
Battery-Stored Solar Power Sparks Backlash From Utilities
Opinions:
9 CleanTechnica:
America’s Net Metering War
Have a great day!
Yann
