Archive for February, 2015

By the Time You Read This, They’ve Slapped A Solar Panel On Your Roof
February 25th, 2015

Via Bloomberg, an interesting article on the pace of solar deployment in the United States where a new panel goes up every 150 seconds: Solar is so cheap, the problem now is how to pay for it. Prices for panels are down more than 65 percent in five years, to less than 70¢ a watt. What’s next?  […]

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Greenlight: Building The Largest Rooftop Consumer Base In The Developing World
February 25th, 2015

Via Nasdaq, an interesting article about a company bringing electricity to the developing world but – while so doing – building a portfolio of consumer rooftops: Those of us who live in the developed world with all its conveniences would find it difficult to comprehend that about 1.2 billion people live every day without access […]

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Egypt’s Solar Energy Plans Are Heating Up
February 1st, 2015

Via The Inspired Economist, an interesting article on Egypt’s recently announced solar energy program: Participating in an initiative to finance rooftop solar power units, National Bank of Egypt (NBE) and Banque Misr are offering loans to citizens in Egypt. As a preliminary stage, the initiative is being offered only within specific areas of Cairo. However, […]

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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.”