Archive for March, 2014

Solar Rooftop Market Set To Swell In The US
March 27th, 2014

Via Engerati, an interesting report on rooftop solar, especially at commercial and industrial sites: First Solar, the largest solar panel firm in the US, is pursuing smaller projects and customer-sited systems. This is in response to utilities’ growing need for smaller solar installations. This is predicted to increase the firm’s sales by 36% over the […]

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First Solar: Focusing On Rooftops As Utility Mega-Projects Shrink
March 21st, 2014

Via the Dallas Morning News, a report on FirstSolar’s  revised focus on the rooftop market: First Solar Inc., the largest U.S. solar-panel maker, is boosting its efforts to install systems at industrial sites and warehouses as utilities demand smaller solar farms. Pursuing smaller projects and customer-sited systems may increase sales as much as 36 percent […]

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About This Blog And Its Author
As potential uses for building and parking lot roofspace continue to grow, unique opportunities to understand and profit from this trend will emerge. Roof Options is committed to tracking the evolving uses of roof estate – spanning solar power, rainwater harvesting, wind power, gardens & farms, “cooling” sites, advertising, apiculture, and telecom transmission platforms – to help unlock the nascent, complex, and expanding roofspace asset class.

Educated at Yale University (Bachelor of Arts - History) and Harvard (Master in Public Policy - International Development), Monty Simus has held a lifelong interest in environmental and conservation issues, primarily as they relate to freshwater scarcity, renewable energy, and national park policy. Working from a water-scarce base in Las Vegas with his wife and son, he is the founder of Water Politics, an organization dedicated to the identification and analysis of geopolitical water issues arising from the world’s growing and vast water deficits, and is also a co-founder of SmartMarkets, an eco-preneurial venture that applies web 2.0 technology and online social networking innovations to motivate energy & water conservation. He previously worked for an independent power producer in Central Asia; co-authored an article appearing in the Summer 2010 issue of the Tulane Environmental Law Journal, titled: “The Water Ethic: The Inexorable Birth Of A Certain Alienable Right”; and authored an article appearing in the inaugural issue of Johns Hopkins University's Global Water Magazine in July 2010 titled: “H2Own: The Water Ethic and an Equitable Market for the Exchange of Individual Water Efficiency Credits.”