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Bridges to New Solar Business Models: Executive Summary
Over the past decade, distributed solar photovoltaics (DPV) have experienced unprecedented growth. DPV is now on track to achieve significant scale in many segments of…
Integrated Utility Services: A New Business Model for Fort Collins Utilities
The contents of this report provide a concrete rationale, from both the customer and utility perspectives, on the value of pursuing the IUS business model…
Tapping Deep Retrofit Value
To assess a deep retrofit project, a professional must evaluate the outcomes of a deep energy retrofit on a given value element and then address…
Lessons from Australia: Reducing Solar PV Costs Through Installation Labor Efficiency
The development of Australia’s solar market, and the drastic cost reductions it saw over a short period of time, emphasize that high market demand and…
How Opposite Energy Policies Turned 3/11 into a loss for Japan and a Win for Germany
To revitalize its economy and politics, Japan needs an efficiency-and-renewable-energy hiyaku that enables the new energy economy, not protects the old one. Japanese frogs jump…