ABSTRACT
The idea for a SolarBank first came up in 1978, when I was working for the management consulting firm of Booz, Allen & Hamilton (now called Booze & Co.) in Washington, DC from 1976 to 1980. My group did studies on the emerging energy technologies like solar photovoltaic (PV), solar water heating, wind power, geothermal energy, hydropower, and ocean energy, biomass energy and fuels (ethanol was then called “gasohol”), cogeneration, synthetic fuels like coal gasification and coal liquefaction, shale oil, advanced nuclear power, energy storage, demand-side management, and such things. We conducted studies of markets, technologies, industries, economics, and public policy.
