I like solar power because there’s a populist component to it. You don’t have to be a Fortune 50 company to develop a project. Small, smart, hardworking companies can bring a farm on line. It’s a quality about the sector that I also respected while working in the fracking industry. To Read the Full Article
Spano tells how REITs fix ill-fitting historic model -- The real estate investment trust (REIT, pronounced "reet") has been recognized by the IRS since the 70s To Read the Full Article
Jim Spano is co-founder of RadientREIT, a firm pioneering the use of the REIT real-estate construct to treat solar generation deployments as real estate, making solar a very attractive investment. He also told us about his work using home solar plus battery storage to build virtual power plants. This industry is wide open and he has very few competitors and told us how regulatory constructs are blocking progress. Go to the Podcast
