EDITOR’S NOTE: This piece was originally published on EDF Renewables’ website, and is being republished with permission of the author. Hedging Against the Duck Curve As the solar industry continues to make progress on the technology cost curve, the economic competitiveness of solar power has steadily become a reality in U.S. markets across California and the desert…
Last month, ACORE hosted an executive meeting in San Francisco with senior-level developers, financiers, utilities and corporate buyers to discuss the results of the midterm elections and the new market structures that are driving growth in corporate procurement of renewable energy. Our first panel featured policy experts from E.ON and Lincoln Clean Energy in a…
EDITOR’S NOTE: This article originally appeared on Microsoft Corporate Blogs, and is being republished with permission of the author. It would be difficult to overestimate the impact that corporate procurement of renewable energy, primarily through power purchase agreements (PPAs), has had on the overall renewable market. In less than a decade, renewable energy created from corporate PPAs went…
EDITOR’S NOTE: This article originally appeared on Coronal Energy Insights, and is being republished with permission of the author. In the historic recent midterm elections—where seven governor’s seats and seven state legislatures switched from Republican to Democrat—voters continued to voice their strong support for renewable and advanced energy. In addition, voters split on several key ballot initiatives in…
Last week, I had the pleasure of speaking on a panel where we discussed financing for U.S. offshore wind projects to a full room at the 2018 Verge conference in Oakland. On that same day, my colleagues on the opposite coast joined nearly 1,000 others at the American Wind Energy Association’s Offshore WINDPOWER 2018 conference.…
EDITOR’S NOTE: This article originally appeared on LinkedIn, and is being republished with permission of the author. It’s hard to go a day without hearing, reading, or talking about the upcoming midterm elections. Interest is high and opinions are strong, with most of the spotlight shining on the federal level. But critical races are occurring across the…