Anatomy of a Solar Power Boom: Can the Industry Keep it Going?

The Energy Gang

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🗓️ 6 March 2014

⏱️ 43 minutes

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As expected, 2013 was yet another record year for solar in the U.S. With 5.1 gigawatts of PV and CSP coming online, the solar industry was the second largest provider of electricity capacity behind natural gas. But how long will it continue? With a tax credit expiration looming, conflicts over net metering and a brewing solar trade war, it is far from assured that this boom will go on forever. This week, we’ll talk with Rhone Resch, president of the Solar Energy Industries Association, about how the industry is positioning itself in the face of these challenges. Then, we’ll talk about Opower’s coming IPO and ask what it will take for the company to continue dominating the efficiency sector. In our final segment, we’ll look at whether the “energy crisis” episode in season two of House of Cards is based at all in reality. (Note: there will be minor spoilers.) The Energy Gang is produced by Greentechmedia.com. The show features weekly discussion between energy futurist Jigar Shah, energy policy expert Katherine Hamilton and Greentech Media Editor Stephen Lacey. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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0:00.0	For the week of March 6th, 2014,acey, a senior editor with Green Tech Media.
0:21.0	Hello, welcome. Thanks again for joining us this week and I'm joined by who else, but
0:25.9	my energy geek friends and co-hosts.
0:28.8	Also in our Fair Capital City is Catherine Hamilton, a policy wonk and partner with 38 North Solutions
0:34.1	Catherine how are you this week give me a highlight just recovering from that
0:39.2	great hangover that's the Oscars you know when Ellen took that selfie with all those stars
0:45.2	she broke the record for the most retweets of all time and I was thinking I want to set
0:50.4	up a challenge maybe we need to bring the energy gang together for a
0:53.0	selfie and see if we can break that record. Do you think we can do it?
0:56.0	Yeah, yeah, and then we have to like travultize our names so that they're all something like
1:00.3	Adele Dazim. Right, we'll have to come up with that for the next show.
1:04.8	And in San Francisco, in a lobby somewhere is Jigger Shaw, a man of many talents, including
1:10.8	clean tech investing and freely speaking his mind.
1:13.2	Jigger, how are things on the West Coast?
1:15.4	I assume you're over there because you're signing books at the Oscars.
1:18.4	Exactly, exactly.
1:20.6	I have to say that I thought that selfie was a little selfish I mean I bet you those movie stars probably had 70 million Twitter
1:26.8	Follows amongst them well this is the me generation so selfies are the name of the game no matter who you are.
1:34.0	So as you may have guessed yet again we have solar on the brain.
1:39.0	And we are going to talk with Ron Resch, the President and CEO of the Solar Energy
1:43.2	Industries Association about the 2013 Solar Market Insight report.
1:48.2	We're going to dig into some of those numbers.
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