The best part of doing SolarWakeup.com is the reception from readers on the trade show floor at #SPICon.  Your support is phenomenal and greatly appreciated.  As we proceed into another year of innovation, expansion and development keep working to spread the solar message through this and the many great channels in solar media.  We will continue to expand how we market and improve.  Thank you to all of you!

News

• Greentech Media: Arizona Utility Funds Solar Smear Campaign
• Forbes: The New Publicly Funded Solar Projects You Should Care
• BizJournals: PSC staffer, consultant oppose solar fee
• Grist: Chicago makes it easier to put solar panels on roofs
• Greentech Media: SunShot Launches $60 Million in DOE Money to Improve Solar
• Denver Post: Colorado set be site of nation’s first public lands solar auction
• RE World: For Solar: Disruption Is a Good Thing
• Bloomberg: NRG and Exelon See Batteries Spurring Demand for Solar

Opinions

• Fox Business: Is It Finally Time for Solar?

Have a great day!

Yann

A special SPI edition of SolarWakeup.  All of the articles are direct release from the companies participating in solar and at SPI.  Give them your support by reading their updates!

News

• SPI Tweet Up: Brought to you by Solar’s Marketing Experts, Tonight in Chicago!
• Advanced Energy: to Feature New Three-Phase String Inverter and Speak at SPI
• Demeter Power: Selected By DoE For SunShot Award To Unlock Solar Financing 
• CarbonFree Technology: Financing Finalized for Largest Solar Project in Canada
• Fraunhofer CSE: PVDI, a process to identify durability
• ZNSHINE SOLAR: ready for the US market
• AEG Power: Solutions extends broad inverter line with new 1000V outdoor inverters
• Skytron Energy: to strengthen presence in North America
• 3M & tenKsolar: Celebrate More than 200 Installations
• LG: PV SOLUTIONS AT HEART OF INNOVATIVE NET-ZERO PROJECT
• Hanwha SolarOne: Introduces a Zep Compatible™ Solar Module in the U.S.

Have a great day!

Yann

Hopefully you have arrived in Chicago and ready for SPI 2013.  To make your conference more engaging, don’t forget to download the SPI 2013 app and follow the happenings on Twitter using #SPICon.  We will be walking the show, so if you see us, say hello!

News

• Chicago Tribune: Chicago to make it faster, cheaper to add solar power
• Bloomberg: China Solar Says Three Directors Detained in Fraud Probe
• Motley Fool: Risks Facing Today’s Solar System Players
• American Progress: The Rise of Rooftop Solar Among the Middle Class
• Hartford Courant: Are Solar Panels Right For Your Home? A Google Maps For Solar
• CleanTechnica: Air Force Pilots New Solar Power Storage System
• Breaking Energy: Solar Power Coming To Airplane Windows?
• National Geo: Solar ‘Gardens’ Let Communities Share Renewable Power

Opinions

• AARP: Solar Panels: Rent, Buy or Skip?

Have a great day!

Yann

       A Special Report from SolarWakeup.com for your SPI travel!

News

• Forbes: China’s Growing Role In The Global Solar Power Industry
• Quartz: Super-large-scale solar installations are surging in the US
• AZ Central: APS, solar companies clash over credits to customers
• BizJournals: How to apply for Broward’s new building energy retrofits
• Energy Collective: Transformative Solar Energy Storage Policy for California
• GigaOm: Cleantech VC investments crater, drop down to pre-2006 levels
• Forbes: Threatened By Renewable Energy Subsidies
• RE World: Why The Money’s Flowing Into US Residential Solar Models

Opinions

• Tor Valenza: 25 Awareness Actions You Can Take to Make a Sound in Solar Forest

Have a great day!

Yann