Getting to 70 percent renewable generation is not a technical discussion. “It is mainly a political question,” according to one E.ON exec. Julia Pyper March 26, 2015 Could renewables account for 70 percent of power generation in the coming decades? According to a majority of energy industry experts surveyed by the advisory firm DNV GL, [...]
German solar power output of 21.7 GW dropped to a low point of 6.2 GW and then added another 15 GW over the course of the planetary event. Eric Wesoff March 20, 2015 During this week's Energy Gang podcast, energy futurist Jigar Shah said that the March 20 solar eclipse would result in "nothing interesting" [...]
Big and small commercial solar coming on strong in 2015 Eric Wesoff March 19, 2015 Sungevity, the No. 3 U.S. provider of residential solar installations, is moving into the commercial market. It's a new channel for the firm as it joins forces and partners with commercial-scale solar financier Sol Systems. Sungevity will focus on what [...]
The new facility is the largest such commercial solar deal in U.S. history By: Lucas Mearian Feb 12, 2015 Apple over the next year or so is expected to surpass Walmart as the largest corporate user of solar power. The company this week announced it will invest $850 million in a solar power plant through [...]
Here’s what small commercial solar needs in order to catch up with the residential and utility sectors. By: Sara Rafalson and William Graves February 10, 2015 While the residential and utility-scale solar markets post record growth, much of the commercial-scale solar market has seen relatively flat growth on a year-over-year basis. GTM Research expects that [...]
Big increase in solar and wind, doubling building efficiency and fuel economy, are on inaugural wish list By: Jeff St. John January 5, 2015 California Gov. Jerry Brown has upped the ante on the state’s green energy goals, calling for a big increase in renewable energy, alternative fuels and building efficiency over the next fifteen [...]
A banker’s perspective on how to grow an overlooked market By: Bill Peterson September 26, 2014 GTM Research recently predicted a revival of small commercial solar projects -- and we should all hope that happens. With about 5.6 million commercial buildings in the U.S., nearly 75 percent of them measuring 10,000 square feet or less, [...]
“Securitization is the most important thing that is going to happen for solar, because it leads to a post-incentive world.” By: Herman K. Trabish May 27, 2014 Can distributed solar continue to grow in the U.S. when the ITC ratchets down and net energy metering gets trimmed? GTM Research VP Shayle Kann explored solar finance [...]
By: Rob Day October 22, 2013 Solyndra, Tesla, Fisker, cap-and-trade, "America is addicted to oil" -- there have been a lot of watershed moments, good and bad, in the cleantech sector over the past ten years. It's been a lot of big ups and downs, a wild ride. But one development doesn't get as much [...]
Corporations are aggressively moving into greentech to deploy VC-backed innovation. By: Herman K. Trabish September 25, 2013 “Of the $2.6 billion of cleantech venture capital investment in 2012 in California, $1.45 billion included corporate investors,” according to Cleantech Investment: A Decade of California’s Evolving Portfolio, a survey of California greentech investing between 2003 and 2013 [...]
