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Canada’s benchmark stock index lost 2.8 per cent on another bleak day for commodities like oil, gold and copper.
Big utilities entering market for small-scale solar power on customer rooftops
– canadianbusiness.com
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – Traditional power companies are getting into small-scale solar energy and competing for space on your rooftop.
The emerging competition comes as utilities and smaller solar installers fight over the future of the U.S. energy system. While the market for residential solar power remains a financial drop in the bucket for a big utility, the installation of solar panels overall grew by more than 50 per cent in 2014 and is on track for another record-breaking year at time when the traditional utility business is pretty flat.
“The whole theory is you need to serve your customer or someone will serve them for you,” said Raiford Smith, a vice-president at CPS Energy in San Antonio, Texas, where 3,000 customers are interested in getting utility-owned rooftop panels. “I think the entire market is in a race for rooftop.”
These moves may have a range of effects for customers. The utilities experimenting in Arizona, Georgia, Michigan and Texas could make solar more affordable for average consumers by energizing competition and driving down prices…
The emerging competition comes as utilities and smaller solar installers fight over the future of the U.S. energy system. While the market for residential solar power remains a financial drop in the bucket for a big utility, the installation of solar panels overall grew by more than 50 per cent in 2014 and is on track for another record-breaking year at time when the traditional utility business is pretty flat.
“The whole theory is you need to serve your customer or someone will serve them for you,” said Raiford Smith, a vice-president at CPS Energy in San Antonio, Texas, where 3,000 customers are interested in getting utility-owned rooftop panels. “I think the entire market is in a race for rooftop.”
These moves may have a range of effects for customers. The utilities experimenting in Arizona, Georgia, Michigan and Texas could make solar more affordable for average consumers by energizing competition and driving down prices…
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TSX sinks as metals, healthcare stocks fall
– thestar.com
North American stock markets closed sharply down as more evidence of a continuing slowdown in China delivered a blow to commodity prices.
Just under half of 722 TSX-listed companies have at least one woman on their board of directors, and progress in getting them to draft policies to recruit more female directors has been scant.
