At the beginning of October, Renewable Energy Vermont held their annual conference. There were a number of amazing presentations and some struck me more then others. For the ones I really enjoyed, I decided to follow up with the presenters to get more color on the topics they presented about. I learned a lot at […]
I just stumbled upon The Open PV Project that was compiled by NREL.
It provides some cool vanity metrics, like a PV map of solar PV installations from 2000 to 2012, and so some very useful state by state market data that can be used for market research. You can also submit your projects to the […]
This week I flew to Chicago for the Illinois Solar Energy Association fund raiser. Jigar Shah delivered the keynote to 70 registrants, packed into Emmett’s Place in Palatine. I left at 9:30pm with an excited sense that Solar PV in Illinois is going to take off.
This was my second Jigar Shah presentation, (here is my […]
Jigar Shah was my favorite presenter at this year’s Building Energy Conference. Mr. Shah founded SunEdison in 2003 and sold it five years later for $200 million. Here are some quotes he offered up in the “Energy Subsidies and the Future of Solar: Where Do We Go From Here?” session:
He outlined a 25kw project in […]
Last week a number of solar super stars on twitter decided to discuss how we can mainstream solar. The conversion happened on twitter.
I’m not going to give a recap or discuss what we talked about, you can find great recaps on the #solarchat here on EcoOutfitters by @ecoOutfitters or Renewable Energy World by @solarfred.
While I was watching […]
