NY Utilities Plan for the Future: What Matters Now for Distributed Energy [GTM Squared]
Source: Greentechmedia
States Are Decoupling Their Emissions From Economic Growth—Federal Policy Be Damned
In 2012, fresh off his win in the presidential race, Barack Obama started talking about climate change. Just not in the way his base wanted. “If the message is somehow we’re going to ignore jobs and growth simply… Read More
Top 10 Players Control 80% of Global PV Inverter Market in First Half of 2016
The solar PV inverter market is concentrating, with the top 10 inverter manufacturers accounting for 80 percent of global shipments in the first half of the year, according to GTM Research’s latest report. “We haven’t seen the leading… Read More
Trump’s New EPA Chief Is Exactly Who You’d Hire to Dismantle Climate Pollution Regulations
New York Times: Trump Picks Scott Pruitt, Climate Change Denialist, to Lead EPA President-elect Donald J. Trump has selected Scott Pruitt, the Oklahoma attorney general and a close ally of the fossil fuel industry, to run the Environmental Protection… Read More
PV O&M Portfolios Diversify as Landscape Consolidates
The global utility-scale PV O&M competitive landscape is segmented by geographical presence and by fleet affiliation, according to the new report Megawatt-Scale PV O&M and Asset Management 2016-2021 released by GTM Research and SoliChamba Consulting. The map of the… Read More
Energy Department Announces Winners of 2016 Federal Energy & Water Management Awards
The Energy Department today recognized 30 winners across the federal government with the 2016 Federal Energy and Water Management Awards. Source: New feed
Energy Jobs: SolarCity in New York, Sungrow, Sonnen, Telensa, Solaria, Geostellar, David Crane
Steven Chan is the new CEO at inverter firm Sungrow North America. Chan has had executive stints at Suntech, Andalay Solar, NRG Residential Solar and GCL Solar Energy. In July of this year, Sungrow allied with Samsung SDI… Read More
SunPower Slashes Its Workforce 25%, Closes Production and Cuts Capital Spend 50% in Restructuring
Here we go again. SunPower has gone through numerous restructuring periods over the course of its history, most recently in 2009, 2011, 2012 and 2014, and now twice in 2016. After announcing layoffs and lowering revenue guidance in… Read More
NEXTracker Launches Storage-Paired Solar Tracker
Solar tracking market leader NEXTracker today announced an energy storage add-on for its signature product. Solar trackers have seen tremendous growth in the last few years as costs come down. That growth stayed strong this year in spite of… Read More
Elon Musk Has Created 35,000 Jobs. So Why Wasn’t He Invited to Trump’s Job Creation Meeting?
New York Times: Want to Bring Back Jobs, Mr. President-Elect? Call Elon Musk Donald Trump: Please think about calling Elon Musk. President-elect Trump has spent a lot of time talking about how he plans to reinvigorate the manufacturing sector,… Read More
