I was keeping a tally sheet at last week’s Renewable Energy Finance Forum, so I could let readers know the issue that was brought up most often and granted the most overall prominence. The clear winner: China is eating our …
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Michael Eckhardt, the president of The American Council on Renewable Energy (who’s retiring after many years of wonderfully effective service to us all), served as the emcee of the Renewable Energy Finance Forum West 2010. At one point, he attempted …
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It doesn’t sound like a piece of cake to be a CEO of a power utility. Sure, as we have discussed elsewhere, there are ways to lock in and hide profits, while staving off the world’s insistence that we migrate …
In the Renewable Energy Finance Forum session in which presenters from Citibank, Credit Suisse, Deutsche Bank, and JP Morgan, offered their observations on the industry, several pointed to the strategies that multinational oil companies (BP, ExxonMobil, Chevron, etc.) have vis-à-vis …
At the Renewable Energy Finance Forum you’ll hear largely about the wins, where developers have taken the most mature clean energy technologies, addressed the many financial risk factors, and presented a can’t-lose package to a bank or other funding entity. …
"Grid Parity" – What Does It Mean and When Will It Happen? Read More »
It’s always interesting to get out and interact with different groups who have specific perspectives on the energy industry. And, to that end, I’ve commited to a certain travel schedule that will take me — either as a speaker or as …
I’m up at the Renewable Energy Finance Forum in San Francisco today and tomorrow, with hardly a moment to breathe between the most interesting presentations I’ve seen in quite a while. To be honest, this subject matter is really hard …
Have you ever had the experience of getting to the end of a long day, looking back to breakfast, and thinking that it seemed like a week ago? That was today for me. The IEEE Energy Innovation meeting in Boston, …
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One of my reasons for coming back to Boston is to meeting various folks from the industry who happen to make this wonderful town their home. Today I bought a birthday lunch for industry colleague Kevin Gulley, publisher of GreenCollarEcomony.com, …
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I’m one of those people who constantly tries to see into the future – not that I have any eerie talent for things like that. The future of energy and transportation, for example, is clear as a bell. Does anyone …
