Today is the 113th anniversary of the publication of a paper that revolutionized science and ushered in the age of electronics. On this day in 1900 Max Planck published his paper on quantum mechanics, in which he explained that light …
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Renewable Energy World does a good job at tracking the adoption of clean energy at all levels, including continental. Here’s an article that explains why Europe is unlikely to achieve its goal of 20% penetration of renewables by 2020. While …
We hear a lot about grid parity, don’t we? That’s the point at which the cost of energy generated by solar, wind, and other renewables is the same as that generated from conventional sources. The author of this article on …
Here’s an extremely bullish report on the future of the solar industry from Deutsche Bank, suggesting that the PV industry will be able to stand and grow solely on its own (without government support) by 2014. Such growth, in the …
Recently, my good friend and long-time 2GreenEnergy supporter Tom Konrad introduced me to his colleague Shawn Kravetz, founder of Esplanade Capital, a hedge fund that’s been “focused” on the solar energy market (pardon the pun) since 2006. When I met …
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I’m sitting in the press room at the PV America East show at the Pennsylvania Convention Center, where I’ve arrived about an hour before the main show floor opens. I’m using the time to have conversations with a few of …
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I write this from the beautiful campus of UCLA, specifically, the Anderson School of Management, where I’m a few minutes early for a conference called: Sustainability Conference – The Financial Implications of Going Green. After all, this really IS the …
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Here’s an email conversation I just had with a friend: Friend: Per the US Bureau of Labor Statistics, sunlight is the most abundant source of potential energy on the planet. If harnessed properly, sunlight could easily exceed current and future …
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It was great to be in San Francisco for another extremely successful meeting of the Renewable Energy Finance Forum, an occasion that gave me the opportunity to chat with Dennis McGinn (holding the book in the photo to the left). Dennis …
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Here is our webinar for July, in which I interviewed Dan Bates, CEO of WindStream, a company with an exciting advancement in micro-wind. I begin by taking a step back from wind power, and micro-wind in particular, and noting that …
