SEIA Statement on President Obama’s State of the Union Address
Rhone Resch, president and CEO of the Solar Energy Industries Association, has released the following statement in response to President Obama’s State of the Union Address to Congress: “In tonight’s...
View ArticleThe State Of The Solar Industry Is Strong
After my conversation with the Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA) President Rhone Resch and the Solar Electric Power Association (SEPA) President Julia Hamm at PV America last month, I’m as...
View ArticleSolar Power Is On Georgia’s Mind
At 9:30 a.m. Eastern Time this very morning, Georgia State Representative E. Culver “Rusty” Kidd held a press conference with his cosponsors of the Rural Georgia Economic Recovery and Solar Resource...
View ArticleWhy Should Your Business Go Solar?
Companies are always looking for ways to save money. I’m boggled as to why, especially in this economic environment, more don’t consider solar. Perhaps owners simply aren’t informed as to how this...
View ArticleWhy Is Ohio Trying To Kill Solar?
I’m a lifelong Ohioan. My parents grew up in Lorain, Ohio, once a bustling blue-collar town 25 minutes west of Cleveland. Most men (and, eventually, women) worked at either the Ford plant (as my...
View ArticleWill Distributed Generation Banish Utilities Forever?
In widely covered news, Jim Rogers, CEO of Duke Energy, said that the utility sees a threat from distributed energy resources. NRG Energy CEO David Crane came out and said that utilities should be...
View ArticleYou Can’t Manage What You Don’t Monitor
I thought 2013 was supposed to be a slow year for the solar industry. The latest study from GTM Research and SEIA says the U.S. solar market grew a whopping 76% in 2012. That means solar has become the...
View ArticleSobering Solar Summit Confuses The Heck Out Of Me
Greentech Media’s Solar Summit, which I attended two weeks ago, offered the most sobering view of the industry I could imagine. For those of you who follow me on Twitter, you got a pretty good idea of...
View ArticleSPW Exclusive: Peter Lynch Says We Need A New Solar Paradigm To Survive
By Peter Lynch, SPW Contributor The photovoltaic (PV) industry needs to aggressively develop new truly disruptive PV technologies to dramatically accelerate the industry’s growth. This will enable...
View ArticleSPW Exclusive: Don’t Let These Five Pitfalls Derail Your Solar Deal
By Conor McKenna, SPW Contributor You hear this story pretty regularly in the U.S. market: a solar sponsor develops a ‘good’ project with all the necessary boxes checked: Site control, a signed PPA, an...
View ArticleThe Wondrous History Of Solar Power World, In 11 Pictures
Solar Power World printed its first edition in October 2011, just in time for that year’s Solar Power International in Dallas. It was a labor of love for all of us, and it’s been a marvelous (nearly)...
View ArticleWhy Haven’t Americans Embraced Solar? An Installer Weighs In
By Terrill Dines, SPW Contributor Each day, the solar industry spends more time than it should pointing to one of a growing number of reasons why solar energy isn’t taking hold in America. Our...
View ArticleFor Crying Out Loud, We Must Stop Preaching To The (Solar) Choir
By Carter Lavin, SPW Contributor The fact that you are reading this suggests that you are pretty into solar. You read solar articles, comment (or Tweet) about them and probably work in the solar...
View ArticleSolar Nearly Half Of New Q1 U.S. Electric Capacity
GTM Research and the Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA) released today U.S. Solar Market Insight: 1st Quarter 2013, the definitive analysis of solar power markets in the United States, with...
View ArticleIntersolar Coverage: The Fastest Three Minutes In Solar
In the first of Solar Power World‘s ongoing coverage of Intersolar North America 2013, Editorial Director Frank Andorka reports on what he heard at the show yesterday. Hear him talk about the optimism...
View ArticleWhat Is So Magical About 25-Year Warranties In Solar?
25 years. Two and a half decades. The Silver Anniversary. 13,140,000 minutes (sorry, I saw a community theater version of Rent this weekend, and I love this song). The most common length for warranties...
View ArticleEXCLUSIVE: Can Public Markets Change Solar Funding? NRG Thinks So.
By Robert Sternthal and Anthony Kim With everyone in the U.S. solar market looking for new methods of financing, why is there so little discussion on NRG Energy’s recent initial public offering (IPO)...
View ArticleIf You Think We Don’t Need Standards, You. Don’t. Know. Solar.
By Jelani Rucker Director of Marketing and New Business Development for JMC Steel Group Are you one of the 100,000 Americans who work in the solar industry? If so, you’re looking at a pretty bright...
View ArticleWhy Is Solar Energy A Good Investment?
Five years after the Great Recession, most Americans have yet to regain their faith in our country’s largest financial institutions. The Dow is up, but the latest Financial Trust Index shows that 58%...
View ArticleRhone Resch Says Solar Should Seize Its Moment In The Sun
Welcome to another edition of Solar Speaks, Solar Power World’s podcast series that gives you the opportunity to hear from the industry’s biggest newsmakers — in their own words. In a wide-ranging...
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