Tag: solar

  • The US Energy Storage Market Kicks Into High Gear

    The US Energy Storage Market Kicks Into High Gear

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    Picture Credit: Duke Energy The most recent numbers for U.S. energy storage action are out. They reveal a surge of activity coming over the next five decades, resulting in 6x market development. By 2024, the storage market will be worth $4.7 billion dollars, driven equally by utility-scale and behind-the-meter battery jobs. On this week's Energy…

  • What’s Up With Tesla Energy?

    What’s Up With Tesla Energy?

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    Image Credit: Tesla On this week's Interchange podcast, the history and future of Tesla Energy. Back in 2006, Elon Musk posted a manifesto outlining his vision for a high-end sports car that could push unit volume and reduced costs. Additionally, it included hints about an integrated company that will sell batteries and solar alongside automobiles.…

  • A Solar CEO’s 2019 Forecast: More Complexity, New Investors and Continued Growth

    A Solar CEO’s 2019 Forecast: More Complexity, New Investors and Continued Growth

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    Image Credit: Sol Systems We discuss our thoughts on guarantee and the development of the industry each year. The past 12 months included the introduction of import tariffs from a president who reiterated his doubts about manmade climate change while championing coal. Even the industry expanded and developed, as it will in 2019. As solar technologies becomes more efficient,…

  • What Happens to Tesla’s Solar Business as Retail Stores Close and Sales Go Online?

    What Happens to Tesla’s Solar Business as Retail Stores Close and Sales Go Online?

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    Yesterday’s news of a $35,000 Model 3 offering and the shuttering of the majority of Tesla’s retail outlets might seem like streamlining and a promise kept for fans of the electric car company. For sellers, the information looks like discount liquidation and layoffs. For fans, it looks like the ending of the line for Tesla. …

  • Sunrun Presents Another Record Quarter, With 115 Megawatts Installed in Q4

    Sunrun Presents Another Record Quarter, With 115 Megawatts Installed in Q4

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    Sunrun, the largest home storage and solar installer in the U.S., delivered a third record quarter to round out 2018. The company installed 115 megawatts in Q4, according to earnings amounts published Thursday. That deployment follows two consecutive record quarters: 100 megawatts in Q3 and 91 megawatts in Q2. The deployments achieved 35 percent year-over-year…

  • SolarEdge Delivers Record Revenue While Expanding Into New Businesses

    SolarEdge Delivers Record Revenue While Expanding Into New Businesses

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    SolarEdge enters 2019 as more than an inverter company. After seizing a lead the publicly traded company embarked on a string of acquisitions that expanded its footprint. SolarEdge coupled that growth with organic growth: It delivered 1.1 gigawatts-AC to get a record earnings of $263.7 million in Q4, according to the earnings data released Wednesday. Annual earnings…

  • Tesla Powerwalls Are in High Demand, Installers Just Don’t Have Them

    Tesla Powerwalls Are in High Demand, Installers Just Don’t Have Them

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    Just 12 percent of solar companies carry Tesla’s Powerwall, according to the latest findings in a report in EnergySage and the North American Board of Certified Energy Practitioners.  The analysis, a nationwide survey of U.S. solar contractors, noted that one in three customers are now expressing interest in energy storage options for their residence. Of…

  • Analyst Roundtable: Breaking Down the Green New Deal (Part 2)

    Analyst Roundtable: Breaking Down the Green New Deal (Part 2)

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    Part 2 in a two-part conversation concerning the Green New Deal. (Read Part 1 here. ) Political feasibility aside, there are many questions about what a Green New Deal might mean for energy that is clean. Broad regulatory change and stimulus could drive the increase of cleantech, however, policies could result in enormous wins —…

  • EIA Outlook 2019: The ‘Extremely Conservative’ Case for Renewables Growth

    EIA Outlook 2019: The ‘Extremely Conservative’ Case for Renewables Growth

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    The U.S. Energy Information Administration last week published the national authorities 's annual permanent energy outlook report. Top-level items focused on the slumping production of U.S. petroleum and natural gas, and also the EIA anticipates will create the U.S. a net energy exporter in 2020. In contrast, EIA's clean energy growth projections were far more…

  • Energy Jobs: More Shuffles at Tesla, Layoffs at Cypress Creek, PG&E Departures Just Beginning

    Energy Jobs: More Shuffles at Tesla, Layoffs at Cypress Creek, PG&E Departures Just Beginning

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    This year begins from several huge players in the business with some significant news.  Tesla announced on its fourth-quarter earnings call Wednesday that CFO Deepak Ahuja will be retiring, and Zach Kirkhorn, formerly the company’s VP of financing, will soon be taking over.  Put simply Tesla information, CEO Elon Musk lately declared  that approximately 7%…