Solar
PosiGen spurs solar ownership and environmental justice for low-income homeowners
"California is on the list, but it's not like we're going to Silicon Valley — we'll be going to Compton."
By Eric Wesoff .
Eric Wesoff is the executive director at Canary Media. He’s a prominent industry journalist, analyst, consultant, speaker, and expert witness in the renewable energy field. Previously he served as senior editor for solar publication pv magazine. Prior to that, he was editor-in-chief at green technology market analysis and media firm Greentech Media. He has been published or quoted in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Forbes, and Wired. He has expertise in clean technology investing and finance, utility structures and regulatory climate, solar power, energy storage, microgrids, and the electrical grid. He lives south of the San Francisco Bay Area and Silicon Valley, very close to the world’s largest utility-scale battery.
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Solar
GAF Energy invests in integrated solar rooftops, adds US manufacturing jobs
It's all about "American jobs and California jobs, getting the facility in place, hiring locally and promoting U.S. solar."By Eric Wesoff .
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Nuclear
Biden going nuclear with a tax credit? Plus, an advanced reactor news roundup
A production tax credit for nuclear power generation could make its way into the $2.3 trillion jobs and infrastructure plan.By Eric Wesoff .
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Just transition
Prioritizing diversity in the energy transition, plus Star Wars puns with Secretary Granholm
The DOE wants to involve the entire community in the energy transition. It's do or do not; there is no try.By Eric Wesoff .
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Geothermal
Hot and bothered about geothermal energy
Enhanced geothermal could provide gigawatts of low-cost baseload power. VCs, entrepreneurs, governments and the oil industry are paying attention. Here's a news roundup.By Eric Wesoff .
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Solar
GAF Energy has installed more solar roofs than Tesla
"The industry will evolve from rack-mounted to building-integrated PV."By Eric Wesoff .
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Climatetech finance
Clubhouse with Canary: Cleantech investing in 2021
There's a new generation of cleantech investors leveraging more capital, more entrepreneurs and more risk than ever before.By Eric Wesoff .
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Electrification
Chart of the day: Fuel cell industry profits
The hydrogen funding wave and the enormous potential of the hydrogen economy boosted the stock price of public fuel cell companies in 2020 — but not their profits.By Eric Wesoff .
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Energy storage
Can solid-state battery company QuantumScape live up to the hype?
Being a public company means dealing with short-sellers and telling the public the actual truth.By Eric Wesoff .
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Solar
Tesla defies global price plunge, raises prices on solar roof and home batteries
Puzzling strategy from the the EV pioneer and reluctant residential solar company.By Eric Wesoff .
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