NEW Corporate Renewable Energy Purchasing Training

Many U.S. companies are seeking to purchase renewable energy…
Major potential benefits include securing long term energy supplies; substantial cost savings; reduced price volatility; compliance with government regulations and reporting requirements; achieving corporate sustainability goals; and general brand enhancement. These benefits are driving accelerating corporate commitments towards direct clean energy purchasing.

Despite this enthusiasm, only a few […]

August 22nd, 2016|Categories: Business, Solar, Solar Finance, Solar Sales & Marketing, Wind|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , |
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GRID Alternatives’ International Program Expands to Nepal

In July, HeatSpring published a Sustainable Women Series article featuring the Founder and CEO of GRID Alternatives, a national non-profit that facilitates affordable solar power projects, oftentimes in low-income communities. In this follow-up article, I spoke with Jenean Smith, the Director of the International Programs at GRID Alternatives, whose working on a 16 kW solar […]

August 19th, 2016|Categories: Microgrid, Solar, Sustainable Building, Women in Solar Energy|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , |
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Meet Solar Research Pro Paula Mints

What do Australia, Indian Lands, and women’s shelters have in common…? While it may sound like the start of a bad joke, there’s actually a great – and lucrative – answer: solar power potential and solar market opportunities abound in all three!
The solar market potential is large, and growing. With almost 30 GW of total […]

August 17th, 2016|Categories: Renewable Energy Policy, Solar, Solar Sales & Marketing, Women in Solar Energy|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , |
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Driving Down Solar Costs: A 70% Reduction in 5 Years

Launched by the Department of Energy in February 2011, the SunShot Initiative was designed to make solar energy cost-competitive by 2020. In 2010, the cost of one solar watt was $3.80. The SunShot project was attempting to reduce solar costs to $1 per watt or $0.06 per kilowatt-hour, an almost 75% decrease in the 2010 cost. Many perceived […]

August 15th, 2016|Categories: Business, Clean Energy Policy, Renewable Energy Policy, Solar, Solar Finance, Solar Sales & Marketing, Women in Solar Energy|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , |
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Why We Haven’t Crossed the Chasm in Residential Solar & What to Do

Just because we’re not shooting fish in a barrel doesn’t mean we’re moving past the late early majority, venturing into the mainstream, or “crossing the chasm” of residential solar. Since December 2015, I’ve been exploring the macro changes happening in the US residential solar markets and wondering where (and if) we were moving into mature […]

August 3rd, 2016|Categories: Financing, Solar, Solar Design & Installation, Solar Finance, Solar Sales & Marketing|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , |
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