SolarCity, every mention
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The multi-billion dollar promise of vehicle-to-grid integration
- ▶ 33:35 Shayle Kann It was when solar city and sun run and sungevity and all these companies introduced the like PPA and lease model.
How Base Power plans to use its fresh $1B
- ▶ 20:34 Shayle Kann I think really only SolarCity at one point took the step to go vertically integrate upstream.
- ▶ 23:57 Shayle Kann Sungevity was this sort of like subcontracting model and solar city was actually the only one that was like really truly for vertically integrated.
Catalyst Live at SF Climate Week
- ▶ 13:25 Shayle Kann And the thing that unlocked residential solar was the introduction of the lease in the PPA model, where at that time, like SolarCity and Sunrun and Sungevity and the companies that were pioneering that were able to offer you basically…
The pace of home electrification
- ▶ 24:45 Shayle Kann Um, you know, and historically, I think, you know, just going back a ways, like in the early days of rooftop solar, some of those companies, SolarCity being an example, you know, dabbled in like, 2 times in the scene
The future of the home solar market
- ▶ 3:47 Shayle Kann Sunrun is far and away the leading residential solar company in the country these days, having surpassed the empty shell formerly known as SolarCity a few years ago, and having acquired its next biggest competitor, Vivint Solar, more…
Inside the Energy Department's loan deal to back hydrogen
- ▶ 37:11 Jigar Shah Whether it was tax credits for SolarCity, whether it was figuring out all the EV charging standards, whether it was all of the, the investment from the loan programs office, right?
Can 'deeptech' venture capital solve climate change?
- ▶ 8:57 Ramez Naam Good exits eventually in the finance side of things in companies like SolarCity and Sunrun.