This detailed report, from Nth Power LLC, the veteran cleantech venture capital firm, and the Fraunhofer Center for Sustainable Energy Systems (CSE), offers a comprehensive description of the market dynamics creating green building opportunities, and it explains the contrarian view that the current residential and commercial market meltdowns are a positive "springboard for innovation."

Suppose your CIO calls tomorrow and asks, "What are we doing about power consumption?" What will you say?

This white paper discusses why power should be measured, where it should be measured, what to do with the data once it is gathered, as well as some of the new technologies available.

The PV inverter market, once short of innovation, has seen a surge of investment in the last few years.  Spurred by startup advances, established firms like SMA, Satcon, and National Semiconductor are developing new distributed PV electronics technologies in-house or through acquisition. This Special Report from Greentech Media, sponsored by Enphase Energy, takes a look at the state of innovation in the inverter market, VC investment activity, and the emerging leaders in the $2.4 billion PV inverter market.