Tuesday, October 20, 2009

Inverters - the next wave to "green the grid"

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More details soon, but learning a lot about inverters and how electricity moves around the power grid.  Reactive power is what allows the en...
Wednesday, April 15, 2009

Sale of Largest Solar Distributor in North America - Closed

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This is the deal we worked on for 18 months - now going full bore on solar finance! Acquisition Gives ITOCHU Largest Solar Distribution Netw...
Tuesday, February 24, 2009

PG&E 500MW plan - 1/2 PG&E Land 1/2 Private

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Many reports of announcement - but the really interesting news is that 1/2 (or 250MW) will be contracted out to private developers. No det...

Solar in a Box - the Ultimate Residential Solution?

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Installation costs for residential solar typically represent more than half the cost of the installed array, and the installation process cr...
Tuesday, February 17, 2009

Grants instead of Tax Credits - Boom?

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The new stimulus bill apparently will provide for government grants to replace the current tax credit scheme. On the surface this should so...
Wednesday, February 04, 2009

Solar Data - Opensolar.org

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Great mashup of CSI data and Google Maps - you can see the locations, components of costs of projects that have received CSI rebates - http:...
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Friday, January 30, 2009

MMA New $200M fund - $10/watt?

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News on MMA's new fund - http://greenwombat.blogs.fortune.cnn.com/ - stated $200M fund, 20.6MW = approx. $10/watt.. This seems high in r...

Using Twitter to Update my Blog

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Can't seem to get it together to post more often, so just added Twitter Badge. Will try that!
Wednesday, July 23, 2008

AB 811 - New California Law Authorizes Cities to Make Low Interest Solar Loans

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California has passed a new law AB 811 , that authorizes cities in California to make low interest loans secured by a lien on the property. ...