Installations of solar, wind and batteries grew this year, but at the slowest rate in more than a decade. Solar installations rose just about 10 percent, and wind installations have essentially stagnated. Some $28 billion in clean energy projects have been delayed or canceled this year.
But there’s at least one American renewable energy company that has found a way to buck this trend: Sunrun.
The San Francisco-based company has carved out a niche in a struggling industry with an innovative business model. Instead of selling solar panels direct to consumers, it leases them, offering “energy as a subscription service,” and significantly lowering upfront costs.
And at a moment when many clean power companies are under attack from the White House, Sunrun is trying to position itself as a partner in President Trump’s energy agenda Solar Subscriptions:
Installations of solar, wind and batteries grew this year, but at the slowest rate in more than a decade. Solar installations rose just about 10 percent, and wind installations have essentially stagnated. Some $28 billion in clean energy projects have been delayed or canceled this year.
But there’s at least one American renewable energy company that has found a way to buck this trend: Sunrun.
The San Francisco-based company has carved out a niche in a struggling industry with an innovative business model. Instead of selling solar panels direct to consumers, it leases them, offering “energy as a subscription service,” and significantly lowering upfront costs.
And at a moment when many clean power companies are under attack from the White House, Sunrun is trying to position itself as a partner in President Trump’s energy agenda
Topic: Writing on Business
Essay
Facebook Fatigue.
Topic:
Blueprint For a New Capitalism. The Twilight of Irresponsible, Deleterious , Zero Sum Capitalism.
Responsibility, Accountability, -Sustainability . Ethics & Shared Value in a New Model for Capitalism.
Topics:
On Manufacturing or - the lack there of in the United States, and the purposeful
intention to eliminate it from our Economy.
Topic.
The Case of the Eternal Return. The Economic Debacle of the 21st Century - Effects, & Response. An Empire on the Brink , the Tragedy of Opportunity -Squandered, and a tale of Woe.
Essay.
The Great Recession & Government Failure
Wsj Sept 2, 2011
Response
Topics:
Business Philosophy, Management, and Practice.
Essay:
NyTimes . Richard Bucks 2010 - Why average is not normal.
Commentary
Essay:
Flattery will get an ad nowhere.
Wall St Journal. Social comparison Theory and Advertising. Effecting how consumers feel about themselves.
Topics:
Spare the Rod Spoil the Banker. Capitalism & its Problem Children - Banking & The Capital Markets; The Spoiled, Coddled & ... Run Amuck.
Essay:
Wall Street & Regulation: Hedge Fund Manager- comment in Reference to the Obama’s administration’s efforts to Regulate and Reign in Wall Street.
-Obama compared to Hitler.
Essay.
Harvard business Review: February 2011. Cover Story
A new idea of capitalism. Porter & Kramer. Shared Value creation.
Rethinking capitalism and unleashing a wave of innovation & growth.
Essay.
Spirituality Inc. Wall St. Journal Book Review. Rob Moll January 20, 2011
Gd & Puritan Values in the American Workplace- Addendum.
New England’s puritan settlers brought with them two ideas-
Calvinism and Capitalism. see Outer office Inner LIfe.
Individual liberty, rule of law, freedom of conscience, freedom to associate, and to enter into contracts. . + moral standards and a solid work ethic.
Essay
Tyler Cowen’s eBook-The Great Stagnation: 2011
Response.
Essay.
Daniel Gross. Newsweek 7 February 2011. How Obama can close the deal with Business.
Response.
Essay.
Maureen Dowd. Sunday NYtimes February 2011
A Bank Crisis who-Dunnit with laughs and tears. **
Essay.
Charles Ferguson- Director Inside Job. Academy Award for Best Documentary
Academy Award acceptance Speech March 2011.
-on the Financial crisis.
“Not one Executive who perpetrated this crime against our society has gone to jail.”
Response
Essay.
Lew Gerstner Jr. Former IBM CEO. Wall St. JOurnal Jan 31. 2011
“Dont just cut Govt- Reinvent it” ***
Response.
Essay.
The Destruction of America. How Arrogance-Greed & Hubris ....Run Amuck, Hijacked an Empire and a Political ideal.
Essay.
Book Review - All the Devils are here. the Hidden History of the Financial crisis. Bethany McLean & Joe Nocera. USA Today 20 December 2010. S. Weinberg
Commentary.
Essay.
Capitalism, Markets, & Financial Services . Fundamentals, Common Sense,
Ethics and Values - Run Amuck.
Essay.
David Cameron, British PM creating a Happiness Index.
Smokescreen or Valid econometric.
March 011.
Response
