Morning Brief: Texas bill would tax wind and solar but not natural gas, Covid speeds up peak oil
Also in the brief: 100-MW Mustang Two Whirlaway Solar Farm comes online in California, Arizona utility APS offering $144M to tribes in coal-country, Q CELLS to build a 41-MW floating PV power plant.
kWh Analytics launches tool to address optimistic pricing, underperformance in solar projects
“The use of objective market data will force accuracy,” Jigar Shah, Generate Capital’s cofounder said.
Jigar Shah on the solar industry: ‘We embrace innovation because it is in our blood’
“We are being looked at by everyone from prominent political campaigns to elected officials in our towns and counties to provide the economic development needed for the nation’s recovery from Covid.”
Jigar Shah: Pandemic reveals solar as ‘one of the largest, most trusted industries in the country’
“It’s critical for us to recognize that we are being looked to by everyone from prominent political campaigns to elected officials in your town to provide the necessary economic development to get us out of Covid,” he said.
Generate lands more than $1 billion for renewable infrastructure
Jigar Shah, renewable energy legend, strikes again. Generate added Sunrun CEO Lynn Jurich and NYSERDA’s Richard Kauffman to its board.
Broadening clean energy deployment: Jigar Shah on Generate Capital
In this interview Jigar Shah talks about his firm Generate Capital and its mission to bring funding to previously overlooked but promising clean energy technologies.
#Solar100’s Jigar Shah: The Kanye West of Solar Finance
Richard Matsui, founder of KWh Analytics, speaks with the well-known and often controversial Jigar Shah.
Potential disaster: Jigar Shah on Suniva’s Section 201 petition
Yesterday Suniva filed for “relief” under a little-known legal provision that would allow the president to take action normally not permitted to protect a domestic industry from imports. pv magazine sought Jigar Shah’s perspective on this case and possible outcomes, and it frankly doesn’t look good.
CleanCapital and Generate Capital enter $300 million partnership to focus on distributed solar
The two U.S.-based companies have announced a major partnership for the acquisition of $300 million in operating clean energy assets, with a focus on distributed solar projects in the near-term.
Jigar Shah and Karl Rábago talk policy, pragmatism at NYSES event
Officials from pv magazine served as MC and moderator for the event in New York City
