Editor’s Note: A couple of years ago, when I created a list of 17 top cleantech champions, I actually put both Jigar Shah (author of this piece) and Tesla CEO Elon Musk in a tie at #1. Jigar has a wealth of knowledge from the solar industry, as well as … [continued]
Originally published on LinkedIn. Bill Gates and 30 other innovators have signed up to support the Breakthrough Energy Coalition to fill a very important gap in clean energy – early commercialization. The Federal Government has long played an important role in funding the basic research needed to come up with … [continued]
Originally published on Fortune. This article as co-authored by Dr. Raj Pannu, the CEO of Emergence Creative. The energy might be clean, but the work is rooted in all-American dirt, sweat, and hard labor. The Pope just took a stand on climate change. One of the fastest cars in the world … [continued]
Originally published on LinkedIn. Net metering is a compromise accounting method to accurately track electricity sent back to the grid. It allows utility customers who generate electricity on-site, usually from a solar PV rooftop system, to run their meter backward by sending the excess electricity generated back to the grid, … [continued]
In recent media coverage of the US–China solar trade petition, there has been an uptick in predictions that all parties are headed toward a negotiated settlement. I hear these sentiments echoed in my conversations with solar companies who are choosing to wait and see how the SolarWorld petition plays out rather than speak … [continued]
Norway can take the lead to end energy poverty with its new mandates for renewable energy investment and sustainable development. These mandates can and should call for transitioning energy access investment away from large-scale centralized energy investments to small scale, distributed clean energy investments. Norway and others have already committed … [continued]
By Jigar Shah, President of CASE, the Coalition for Affordable Solar Energy, and a world-leading cleantech champion It makes so little sense that it reads like a round of Madlibs: a German company brings a trade case in the United States that claims to be protectionist but would result in severe domestic job losses and industry contraction. That’s the mad … [continued]
Editor’s note: While we here at CleanTechnica have focused on the ‘soft costs’ of solar making German much cheaper than U.S. solar, one of the world’s leading solar and climate change solutions entrepreneurs and investors, Jigar Shah, contends that the cost differences are actually largely due to another factor — … [continued]
Last week, I posted letters from Jigar Shah (President of Coalition for Affordable Solar Energy) and a response from Hari Chandra Polavarapu (Managing Director of Solar/Cleantech Research at AURIGA USA LLC). As an update, here’s a response to Hari from Jigar: I want to thank Hari Chandra Polavarapu, the Managing Director of Solar/Cleantech … [continued]
