GTM Podcast: Solar and Smart Grid Projects Struggling the Week Away

This week’s solar company death list, plus First Solar and Smart Grid news

Eric Wesoff June 01, 2012

Eric Wesoff

Editor-at-Large
Greentech Media

Eric Wesoff is Editor-at-Large at Greentech Media. Prior to joining GTM, Eric Wesoff founded Sage Marketing Partners in 2000 to provide sales and marketing-consulting services to venture-capital firms and their portfolio companies in the alternative energy and telecommunications sectors. Mr. Wesoff has become a well-known, respected authority and speaker in these fields.

His expertise covers solar power, fuel cells, biofuels and advanced batteries. His strengths are in market research and analysis, business development and due diligence for investors. He frequently consults for energy startups and Silicon Valley's premier venture capitalists.

This week in the headlines at Greentech Media: solar companies going bust, others hanging on, and First Solar's plant in southern California facing more troubles. Then, we talk with reporter Katie Tweed about the difficulties that utilities in Illinois are having getting their smart grid programs approved by the ICC.

We look forward to providing these podcasts as a regular feature and bringing you the events of the week in a different format. You'll hear from GTM research analysts, editors, reporters and the occasional special guest. Stay tuned.