Solar Power Finance Without the Jargon
by Jenny Chase · first published 2019
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Solar power has become big business, with $131 billion invested in 2018, up from just $11.2 billion in 2004 but down from $171 billion in 2017 as unit costs fell. New installed capacity grew from 1.1GW in 2004 to about 107GW in 2018, a steady rise as solar begins to compete with fossil fuels on cost and to be built in nearly every country.This is a book for the solar workers of the future, a business book for those without a business or economics background and those simply curious about major shifts happening in the world energy economy. Key financial, economic and technical concepts are inte
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Recently the author of "Solar Power Finance Without the Jargon" Jenny Chase was on the Energy Transition Show podcast [0] discussing the growth of solar. The discussion got into some of the technical reasons solar was able to grow as it did; while the analysts were…
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