March 17th, 2015
Via Climate Central an interesting look at the role that urban areas could play in major solar power development, though they’re often overlooked: There is a scene in the movie “Gattaca” in which Ethan Hawke and Uma Thurman’s characters walk through a giant concentrating solar power plant spread across a broad flat California desert. It’s […]
Read more »By the Time You Read This, They’ve Slapped A Solar Panel On Your Roof
February 25th, 2015
Via Bloomberg, an interesting article on the pace of solar deployment in the United States where a new panel goes up every 150 seconds: Solar is so cheap, the problem now is how to pay for it. Prices for panels are down more than 65 percent in five years, to less than 70¢ a watt. What’s next? […]
Read more »February 25th, 2015
Via Nasdaq, an interesting article about a company bringing electricity to the developing world but – while so doing – building a portfolio of consumer rooftops: Those of us who live in the developed world with all its conveniences would find it difficult to comprehend that about 1.2 billion people live every day without access […]
Read more »Egypt’s Solar Energy Plans Are Heating Up
February 1st, 2015
Via The Inspired Economist, an interesting article on Egypt’s recently announced solar energy program: Participating in an initiative to finance rooftop solar power units, National Bank of Egypt (NBE) and Banque Misr are offering loans to citizens in Egypt. As a preliminary stage, the initiative is being offered only within specific areas of Cairo. However, […]
Read more »November 13th, 2014
Via Bloomberg, a report on China’s efforts to utilize rooftop solar: China, the world’s biggest solar market for two years running, is pushing to install more panels at factories, schools and even greenhouses as it seeks to meet its goals under a historic climate agreement with the U.S. China expects to install as much as […]
Read more »Alternative Market Solutions That Could Ignite Renewable Energy Finance
November 5th, 2014
Courtesy of Clean Energy Finance Forum, a report on alternative market solutions that could energize renewable energy finance: How can alternative financing solutions help expand clean energy through capital markets? Industry experts convened at this year’s Asset-Backed Securities (ABS) East conference in Miami on Sept. 20-23 to discuss these possibilities. Yieldcos, crowdfunding or peer-to-peer (p2p) […]
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