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Industry Veteran Opines at Wall Street Green Trading Summit
By GUEST AUTHOR Lee Barken, IT practice leader at Haskell & White, LLP Peter Fusaro knows environmental finance markets. As Chairman of Global Change Associates, Fusaro is an energetic and...
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Feed-in Tariffs Take Center Stage at AREDAY 2010 Renewable Energy Conference
By GUEST AUTHOR Lee Barken, IT practice leader at Haskell & White, LLP. Among the critical topics presented by industry luminaries at this year’s American Renewable Energy Day (AREDAY) summit in...
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Return of the T-RECs: Back from Extinction, Part Two
By GUEST AUTHOR Lee Barken, CPA, LEED-AP Nearly a year ago, I wrote about the unanimous decision of the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) to allow Tradable Renewable Energy Credits (T-RECs)...
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CA Proposition 23 and the National Clean Energy Dialogue
By Guest Author Lee Barken, CPA, LEED-AP Tom Steyer has a vision for a national dialogue about energy production and consumption. At the 2011 gathering of the Cleantech Investor Summit in Palm...
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From Culture to Cleantech: A travel diary from South Korea
By Guest Author Lee Barken, CPA, LEED-AP Blink twice in Seoul, South Korea, and you might think you’re in any big city in the United States. Cars whiz by, tall buildings sprawl out in familiar,...
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Solar Gardens: Sprouting soon in a community near you
By Guest Author Lee Barken, CPA, LEED-AP In March 2007, Community Housing Works, a non-profit developer/owner of low income housing projects, unveiled a 56-unit multi-tenant unit (MTU) apartment...
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Solar Hosting: No roof? No worries.
By Guest Author Lee Barken, CPA, LEED-AP In January 2012, research group Environment California released a report highlighting the phenomenal growth of solar energy in the state of California....
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Shared Solar One Step Closer to Reality
By Guest Author Lee Barken, CPA, LEED-AP The California Assembly’s Utility & Commerce Committee just advanced a bill called the Community-Based Renewable Energy Self-Generation Program, or SB843,...
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Shared Solar in California Coming to a Vote
By Guest Author Lee Barken, CPA, LEED-AP Community solar could mean another two gigawatts in California. California’s Community Shared Solar bill, SB843, achieved another significant milestone on...
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CollectiveSun: Invest in solar. Help a nonprofit. Earn a great return.
By Guest Author Lee Barken, CPA, LEED-AP Homeowners and businesses everywhere are going solar. In California alone, nearly 200,000 systems have been deployed. Yet, only 1,039 systems, or 0.5%, were...
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