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Anti-Dumping Duties Will Hurt The US Solar Industry

Roy L Hales — Mon, 29 Dec 2014 20:20:19 +0000

According to Jigar Shah, anti-dumping duties and tariffs invite retaliation, and escalate a global trade war which benefits no one in the solar industry

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Jigar Shah’s Next Breakthrough Cleantech Company

Zachary Shahan — Mon, 08 Dec 2014 11:00:22 +0000

If you aren’t familiar with Jigar Shah, you should be. In my list of 17 cleantech champions published at the beginning of the year, Jigar was tied with Elon Musk at #1. If you’re familiar with Jigar and his work, you know why. If not, you’re probably thinking “What? How can he be tied with Elon?”

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Interview on US/EU vs China Solar Trade Dispute

Zachary Shahan — Sat, 25 Oct 2014 19:22:26 +0000

Prolific journalist and blogger Scott Thill (of Wired, Salon, Huffington Post, Alternet, Grist, SolarEnergy.net, and probably other outlets) interviewed me a little while back about US/EU tariffs on Chinese solar cells and solar modules (which dominate the solar cell and solar module market). Honestly, the interview could have gone either way, but he got me

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The Shift To Clean Energy: M2M Plays A Vital Role

Guest Contributor — Thu, 04 Sep 2014 22:55:55 +0000

Clean energy benefits are becoming widely known to include reduced carbon footprint that is sustainability-focused and home solar systems that essentially turn consumers into paid energy providers. Significant shifts are happening in this sector; business model and financial innovation and the need for seamless integration of technology makes M2M communication key to adoption. M2M device management pioneers Mformation spoke to

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SolarWorld To US Solar Industry: Drop Dead

Jigar Shah — Thu, 13 Feb 2014 19:24:43 +0000

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 game that German solar manufacturer

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17 Cleantech Champions

Zachary Shahan — Wed, 01 Jan 2014 10:00:20 +0000

There are actually thousands of cleantech champions out there, and many of them are CleanTechnica readers. I was actually a bit hesitant to make this list because of that — there are going to be a lot of people not on this list that really could be. However, in honor of the tremendous work some

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Listen To Me Ramble & Roll On The Disruption! Solar Energy Podcast (About Solar, EVs, & More)

Zachary Shahan — Wed, 11 Dec 2013 16:06:50 +0000

Roger Willhite recently started up the Disruption! solar energy podcast on Second Silicon. He has been interviewing quite a selection of solar rock stars, such as: Billy Parish of Mosaic Danny Kennedy of Sungevity and SfunCube Bob Tregilus of This Week in Energy and Plug In America Felix Krause of Milk The Sun Tor Valenza (aka Solar Fred)

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Energy Storage Company Lands $5 Million In Funding For Its $0-Down Energy Storage Offer

Zachary Shahan — Mon, 28 Oct 2013 18:10:44 +0000

Stem Inc. offers commercial and industrial customers advanced energy storage solutions for no upfront cost, allowing immediate energy savings. The company announced at the end of last week that it has now landed $5 million in funding from Clean Feet Investors I, LLC (CFI) in order to continue this offering. Just as solar leasing and related models have

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Climate Change, A $10 Trillion Opportunity… Here And Now

Guest Contributor — Wed, 16 Oct 2013 22:06:11 +0000

By Douglas Elbinger, Energy Policy Analyst, GreenLancer.com Many of us who have been on the ground floor of the renewable energy business are secretly experiencing the warm fuzzy feelings that precede explosive global growth. Economic opportunity of this scale happens very rarely. Recent history tells us that nothing changes on this scale ‘peacefully’ until the

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Debunking The Myth Of The Inadequacy Of ‘Current Renewables’

Guest Contributor — Wed, 13 Mar 2013 11:30:38 +0000

This article was originally published on Climate Progress. Last month, I was on a panel with someone who kept kept saying “current renewables” were inadequate to address the climate problem and what we needed to do is invest in ”future renewables.” By that he meant increased research and development, of course, and not continued aggressive deployment.

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Jigar Shah, Barun Singh, Keith Gillard — Quick Cleantech Entrepreneur Tips Via Future360

Zachary Shahan — Tue, 05 Mar 2013 13:40:12 +0000

Future360 has developed a good habit of catching up with leading cleantech investors and entrepreneurs and getting a few key tips out of them for up-and-coming (or potentially up-and-coming) cleantech entrepreneurs. I’m reposting three of them below. This first video is of Jigar Shah, perhaps the most well known solar expert in the United States.

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US International Trade Commission Votes Unanimously In Favor Of Anti-Subsidy Duties On Chinese Silicon PV Imports

Andrew — Thu, 08 Nov 2012 12:47:01 +0000

The ITC panel voted 6-0 in favor of imposing countervailing duties on imports to the US of silicon PV cells and panels from China, bringing to a close solar industry WTO litigation, at least in the US.

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Are Subsidies Holding Back U.S. Solar Deployment? (CleanTechnica Exclusive from Jigar Shah)

Jigar Shah — Thu, 04 Oct 2012 19:40:38 +0000

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 — high U.S. subsidies. Have a

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Solar Energy Securitization on the Horizon as Industry Players Look for New Finance Vehicles

Andrew — Fri, 18 May 2012 08:19:55 +0000

The recent U.S. residential housing and mortgage market collapse gave securitization a bad name, but the practice of aggregating and dicing up residential solar PV system leases and commercial solar power purchase agreements (PPAs) is bound to play a role in solar and renewable energy finance going forward

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Solar Trade Dispute: Jigar Shah Response

Jigar Shah — Mon, 09 Jan 2012 12:25:49 +0000

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 Research at AURIGA USA LLC,

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On the China-Solar Trade Dispute

Zachary Shahan — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 11:30:16 +0000

If you’re in the solar industry, or care much about it, I’m sure you’ve heard of the “solar trade war”/solar industry trade dispute going on right now. Basically, a handful of solar manufacturing companies from the U.S. and Germany (led by SolarWorld) contend that china is dumping its solar goods in the U.S. and has

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