The Week in Solar News | June 3, 2013

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June 3, 2013

LATEST NEWS: Kosovo Is a Test for the World Bank's Support of Clean Energy Jigar Shah - May 31, 2013 A moment of truth for the World Bank What an Efficiency Startup Is Learning From Third-Party Solar Financing Stephen Lacey - May 31, 2013 "We've studied the solar industry very carefully." Google Buys into PV Solar in South Africa with SolarReserve and Partners Herman K. Trabish - May 31, 2013 Google keeps finding budding renewables opportunities. How Hannon Armstrong Got the IRS to Approve Its Renewable REIT Herman K. Trabish - May 30, 2013 Energy efficiency was the key to the first REIT for renewables. Republican Senator Praises Solar, Warns of Human-Caused Climate Change Stephen Lacey - May 30, 2013 Does Senator Lamar Alexander's energy speech mark a shift in GOP tone? Lessons Learned From SolarCity's First Home Energy Storage Installs, Updated Eric Wesoff, Jeff St. John - May 30, 2013 Never mind the bollards. Updated with images. The Microinverter-Optimizer Fight Moves to Commercial-Scale Solar Herman K. Trabish - May 30, 2013 A new SolarEdge architecture brings competition to an emerging market. Big Solar, California Desert County Make Peace Earthtechling, Pete Danko - May 29, 2013 Utility-scale solar developers and Riverside County agree on a reduced annual power-production fee. Why Germany's Solar Is Distributed Herman K. Trabish - May 29, 2013 What will move the U.S. away from centralized sun? Advanced Energy Adds Big Inverter and String Inverter to Stay Competitive in PV Herman K. Trabish - May 29, 2013 AE wants to take Satcon's market share.

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Third party ownership for solar PV leases and financing picture in the US

From GTM Market Research by Shale Kahn | February 11, 2013

TPO (third party ownership) is the leading business model across USA in selling PV for residential units.  Before 2010 no such business model exist.  Sun Run and Solar City pioneered such type of ownership, followed by Sungevity. 

The Stanford graduates pioneered  Sun Run who said that there are only 3 obstacles to owning solar:  money, money, money.

Now there are 10 TPO companies in USA, the report/research features the companies across the Solar value chain:   lead gen, sales, financing, monitoring, module supply,  and active markets.

The GTM report is downloable

Energy Efficiency Strategy of Solar City

Repost from Greentech Energy by Eric Weschoff | May 16, 2013

As we process our initial installation, we noted that the high electrical bill of P29t a month is due to several factors;

l.  Aircon use
2.  Daily watering and use of water pumps
3.  Use of high wattage metal halide lamps.

Recommendation on energy efficiency is needed aside from going solar:    proper use of metal halide or shift to LED lamps, solar air con.

Thus Solar City had its energy efficiency audit team;  now it acquired Building Solution, a company with software solutions for energy efficiency.   The firm got financing from Admiral Bank to do a $2t to $l5 t energy audit of homes  and suggest measures that would mean 20 to 50% savings (wow)

Solar City has done l5,000 energy audit but will not be doing this in house anymore.

US homes spend about $241 billion a year on energy or $l,900 per home.  The PV is just a small part of that pie

Abroad, in California, can solar companies kill established utilities?

Repost from Energy Manager Today by Linda Hardesty | May 24, 2013

PG & E (Pacific Gas and Electricity ) at Northern California is being threatened by solar companies like SunRun (which leases solar PV) Solar City, Sungevity,  and Verengo.  The Central Utility business model is being threatened by rooftop solar panels

PG & E residential rates is now at 31 cents (about P12.00 at parity with PHL rates) and could reach 54 cents by 2022 (about P20.00) or double the current rates.  LCOE for solar is about  10 to 12 cents over for the next 25 years.  Thus more and more residential customers shift to solar.  40% of the total customers of utilities are residential. 

The utilities could fight net metering or make solar power sold through grid by subtracting these from the net metering.

Utilites are ill equipped or shackled by utility laws which were meant to protect them.  As more people shift to solar, they have no choice but to raise prices on remaining customers which forces more people to shift to solar energy

Is this happening in the PHL?