The energy finance community has been eagerly anticipating the introduction of solar asset-backed securities – “solar securitization,” – for at least three years, and may be waiting for another year or more. […]
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US Coal Energy and Industry Transition\
Developing EPA carbon regulations could shutdown most U.S. Coal Power possibly within 25 years. A previous Part 2 Post describes how 80% of Coal Power could be feasibly replaced by expanding Wind+Solar Power […]
Customer Costs and Solar Installation
It’s no news to anyone in the solar industry that although module costs have plummeted, soft costs for solar — like permitting, installation, and customer acquisition — have remained high in the […]
Deforestation and California Policy
Jerry Brown didn’t show up to last week at the ceremony where he was to receive the Blue-Green Alliance’s “Right Stuff” award. But who did? A crowd of protestors condemning the Governor […]
Energy Storage and Renewable Grid Assistance
Clean Energy Group\’s new Resilient Power Project is helping states figure out how to provide resilient power to critical infrastructure, so that needed services can be provided during a natural disaster that […]
US utility trade body told to confess or condemn in ‘dark money’ row
The Edison Electric Institute (EEI), which represents all investor owned utilities in the US, has been urged to confess or condemn the use of so-called “dark money” to pay for campaigns against […]
Electric Vehicle Myths 4: Chemistry Is Not Electronics
“ The potential for electric vehicles has stimulated hundreds of companies to jump at the challenge of improving battery technology. Like the bulky original cellphones and tissue-box-sized calculators, batteries will shrink in size, […]
Is There a Fatal Flaw in Proprietary Electric-Vehicle Charging Networks?
For stakeholders in the electric vehicle industry, the back-to-back bankruptcies of Better Place and ECOtality have been sobering, but not surprising. Though both were early pioneers in the EV charging space, many […]
Grid Edge Pulse: Microgrids
We recently highlighted energy decentralization as one of the key drivers for the grid edge market. In addition to the growth of PV, electric vehicles, and storage, we see microgrids as a […]
Panelist: Excess LNG capacity means not all projects will be built
The LNG export projects that federal regulators are considering far exceed the capacity that North America is expected to export, said Robert Stibolt, a senior managing director at broker dealer Galway Group, […]
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