After Wall Street popularized the term “mortgage-backed securities” in its destruction of the economy in 2008, you could be forgiven for thinking “solar securities” are a pyramid scheme. But, in truth, they may hold the key to democratizing the financing and the ownership of distributed renewable energy. Right now, … [continued]
When the Facebook IPO was the #1 news topic last week, it didn’t cross my mind that there was any important connection to cleantech, or solar energy in particular. However, a couple days later, it struck me that there was an important one. Facebook went from a simple idea … [continued]
Germany is the unquestioned world leader in renewable energy. By mid-2011, the European nation generated over 20 percent of its electricity from wind and solar power alone, and had created over 400,000 jobs in the industry. The sweet German success is no accident, however, and the following pie chart illustrates … [continued]
A serialized version of ILSR’s new report, Democratizing the Electricity System, Part 1 of 5.
