New Business Model for Renewable Energy — A Reminder that the Real Market for Cleantech Solutions Lies in the Developing World

Here’s an article on a brilliant new business model for renewable energy, being implanted in the Philippines: install PV on people’s roofs, and let them pay you via the cell phone infrastructure for their use.  It’s illustrative of a key point made at the CleanTechLA conference I attended yesterday: the real market for clean energy and other cleantech solutions lies not in the US, nor the other OECD countries, but in the developing world.