Adrienne Esposito, executive director of Citizens Campaign, said the goal was to have 5,000 homeowners participate in ways big (installing new boilers) and small (using compact fluorescent light bulbs).
Now presumably the team is looking to go from prototype to product and do some big installs.
What's impressive in Silverlight's big install number is that it's just for version 2, which was only released about 6 months ago.
So it could be easy to see that a class of startups in this space could quickly become a graveyard if it's a race to create the best content or get the first big install base and big insurance or healthcare providers decide to jump in.
It has over 2,700MW of projects in the pipeline and expects in 2012 to become the world's biggest installer of solar power.
Sunrun is the biggest installer of rooftop solar systems in the U.S., and expects to install 15% more solar power by year-end 2018.
China has been trying to boost its solar panel market by installing more solar panels at home, and the country is expected to be the world's biggest installer of panels in this year.
It's the kind of business plan that Elon Musk's SolarCity --the nation's biggest installer of home solar systems--has been working to perfect in recent years, generating $200 million in annual sales and $6 billion of market capitalization in the process.
In other words, Toshiba has a bigger installed base of committed videophiles.Retailers love them, but would prefer that one or other of the formats would just go away.
Of course, the official app has a much bigger install base.
Because we were out there first, we have a bigger installed base of consoles.
