Jigar Shah, Author at CleanTechnica

Jigar Shah

is a co-founder at Generate Capital and the author of Creating Climate Wealth: Unlocking the Impact Economy, 2013 Icosa Publishing. Shah unlocked the multi-billion-dollar worldwide solar industry with a business model innovation (Power Purchase Agreement), not a new technology. This model created SunEdison, once the largest solar services companies worldwide. Jigar Shah has shown that business model innovation applied to the biggest challenge of our lifetime – climate change – will unlock a $10 trillion new economy. After SunEdison was sold in 2009, Jigar served through 2012 as the first CEO of the Carbon War Room — the global organization founded by Sir Richard Branson and Virgin Unite to help entrepreneurs address climate change. SunEdison and Carbon War Room proved that we could make positive change through business and financial model innovation in many industries. Today, as CEO of Jigar Shah Consulting, he works with global companies in a multitude of industries to deploy existing clean energy solutions fueled by new business models.

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What Tesla & SolarCity Could Offer Together

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...

Jigar ShahAugust 8, 2016

Clean Power

We Already Have The Technology To Solve Climate Change. What We Need Is Deployment.

Originally published on LinkedIn. Bill Gates and 30 other innovators have signed up to support the Breakthrough Energy Coalition to fill a very important...

Jigar ShahDecember 7, 2015

Clean Power

The US Green Energy Movement Is Red, White, And Blue

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...

Jigar ShahSeptember 14, 2015

Clean Power

True Costs/Benefits Of Solar Net Metering Will Require Updated Accounting Methods

Originally published on LinkedIn. Net metering is a compromise accounting method to accurately track electricity sent back to the grid. It allows utility customers...

Jigar ShahJune 1, 2015

Clean Power

Status of US-China Solar Trade Petition, & What Needs To Be Done

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...

Jigar ShahApril 30, 2014

Clean Power

Norway Can End Energy Poverty

Norway can take the lead to end energy poverty with its new mandates for renewable energy investment and sustainable development. These mandates can and...

Jigar ShahMarch 24, 2014

Clean Power

SolarWorld To US Solar Industry: Drop Dead

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...

Jigar ShahFebruary 13, 2014

Clean Power

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

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...

Jigar ShahOctober 4, 2012

Clean Power

Solar Trade Dispute: Jigar Shah Response

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...

Jigar ShahJanuary 9, 2012