Last week, we were invited to participate in the Infocast Solar Capital Markets Conference in New York City.

This week we were pleased to participate in Infocast’s Renewable Energy Asset Management Conference in Carlsbad, CA. Jason Kaminsky, our Vice President of Partnerships, moderated a panel entitled Ownership Strategies for the New Breed of Investors.

Investors in rooftop solar companies and portfolios, and lenders to the sector, are using big data to draw useful insights and improve their valuation techniques, creating an opportunity for thoughtful developers to differentiate their operations by skillfully demonstrating transparency into the performance of their assets.

Renewable energy’s share of our overall energy mix is at the highest level in over 70 years — even with the drought-induced decline in Western hydropower output.

With the notable exception of Intersolar North America, it’s surprisingly rare for a major solar conference to be held here in San Francisco. So when Solarplaza extended an invitation for us to speak at its 2nd annual Solar Asset Management conference here in the city, we leapt at the opportunity.

This past week, our CEO Richard Matsui joined 6,000 structured finance professionals in Las Vegas to discuss the latest trends in asset backed securities.

Now that 2014 has come to an end and we’ve seen a preview of what 2015 has in store, we felt it was the right time to put together our projections for the year. We look forward to picking this back up in 2016 and seeing how many of these actually materialized over the course of the year.

We are proud to announce that the Department of Energy is providing kWh Analytics with a $500,000 award to support our mission of using the data to statistically quantify risks in the solar asset class.

We followed with great interest this week as SolarCity unveiled their MyPower residential loan product.

This past Wednesday (10/9), 30 leaders from the solar industry descended upon Washington to attend an invite-only meeting convened by the White House on “Increasing Capital Flows into the Solar Market.”

kWh Analytics CEO Richard Matsui is honored to be joining other solar industry leaders at the White House at an invite-only discussion about the future of the industry on October 8, 2014.

kWh Analytics CEO Richard Matsui joined 3,000 structured finance professionals in Miami to discuss the nascent solar asset class.

In May 2014, the SunShot Initiative held a peer review to receive unbiased expertise from industry, government agencies, nonprofit organizations, utilities, and consultants on the performance of the SunShot Initiative.

The State of Hawaii’s Energy Excelerator Program, a state-supported incubator funded in part by the U.S. Department of Energy and Office of Naval Research, announced today that kWh Analytics has been accepted as one of only 17 companies to their 2015 cohort.

We are proud to announce that Jason Kaminsky has joined kWh Analytics as the Vice President of Partnerships. Jason will focus his efforts on the company’s relationships with our customers and partners. Given his deep sector experience, he will be an ideal complement to our team.

kWh has published an article entitled “A Primer of Collateral-Related Risks Associated with Solar ABS” with the Journal of Structured Finance, a respected publication under the Institutional Investor Journal group.

The kWh Analytics team will be making the trip to Los Angeles to meet with the US Department of Energy as well as the other SunShot awardees.

Hundreds of solar investors, prospective issuers, and service providers convened in New York City to discuss solar securitization.

Residential solar has suddenly become a very hot topic with the advent of SolarCity’s inaugural solar securitization two months ago.

We’re at Solar Power International 2013 with the Department of Energy, and are proud to announce that our firm has been selected to receive a coveted SunShot Award.