I ran across a great post over a month ago on the Tesla Motors Club forum, and am finally getting around to sharing it. Just like this article, it was titled “EV Disruption.” Interestingly, it comes from someone living in Texas, home of the US oil industry. The post echoes … [continued]
By Mike Shurtleff For years, I’ve been following the exponential growth of Global Solar PV production/installation, starting with this article in 2007: “PV production up 50% in 2007,” in which it was stated that solar PV production had “jumped to 3,800 megawatts worldwide in 2007” and was “world’s fastest-growing energy source.” There is a … [continued]
SolarCity took 32% of the US Residential PV installation market in the third quarter of 2013, as utilities continue to squirm over solar power’s disruptive energy potential. According to GTM Reasearch, the solar giant had four times the market share of its closet rival, Vivint. Besides Vivint, rounding out the … [continued]
I recently had a fun idea for a poll. Hope you will think so, too. Cleantech as a whole is beginning to disrupt (in a good way) a handful of not-so-clean industries. This includes the coal industry, the nuclear industry, the oil industry, the gasmobile industry, and even the banking … [continued]
Last week, Shai Agassi wrote and we shared two articles regarding how electric vehicles (and Tesla, in particular) are disrupting the automotive world, and will do so much more in the future. In his third article in this series, Shai makes some very interesting points about how new sales channels … [continued]
This article was originally published on Solar Love. I recently ran across this interesting graph on reddit: The title of the article in which the graph was housed (similar to mine above) was: “Solar Energy: This Is What A Disruptive Technology Looks Like.” I think the graph is pretty clear … [continued]
Disruptive technologies and the emerging crowdfunding platform are becoming more commonplace as not only a marketing and finance tool, but also changing the dynamics of how energy is distributed. Enter Austin, Texas-based company Ube, which launched its Kickstarter crowdfunding campaign for itsr award-winning “smart” dimmer.
