Short update here - I’m going to document what I’ve been picking up here, and some of it will be posted on the blog.  I’m amazed at the quality of the presenters and presentations.  A few highlights:

• The ITC is a huge concern, it’s looking like it might not pass which will impact the US solar industry over the next few years.  More info on the ITC, and a good blog post about the discussion here at Intersolar.
• The price of solar cells is falling faster than many people predicted.
• People are expecting electricity prices to double in the US in the next 5 years.
  • Which means grid parity in some regions is closer than many people think.
• Most of the breakthroughs that people are really triumphing are incremental not transformative.
• The state of the art of BIPV isn’t that impressive - tinted glass and silicon PV on glass and roof mounted systems.  Pretty good, but not much else.

More details tomorrow.

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