Jobs census needs you NOW! It’s that time of the year once again and this year it is more important than ever before. When solar goes to the Hill or a State Capitol, it touts first and foremost the number of jobs our industry has created. Fill out the census, pass it on to your friends. Click here and click the link to get the survey done!
Time for time of use. Xcel in Colorado got its settlement approval from the utility regulators. The solar grid charge is out, another victory for solar. A test of a time of use structure will be piloted in its place with some demand charges. Another 400MW of solar in various segments is also approved moving Colorado forward once again.
Tag, you’re it. A few weeks ago D.E. Shaw made the offer to take over the sponsor position for SunEdison in the Terraform projects. Now, Brookfield which owns about 12% of the company is offering to do the same but also offering to buy the shares from all the other owners for cash; i.e. Brookfield is making an offer to buy Terraform.
Regulators go distributed. The most exciting ballroom in the Country next week will be in California. NARUC, the national regulators association, is having their meeting and top of their agenda is distributed energy resources. If you go, bring your redbull and espresso.
RUN don’t walk. All the main solar players have put their earnings for the 3rd quarter out. Sunrun went yesterday and had a better than forecasted quarter. Their sales and marketing costs are higher than the competition but that is likely due to their high end customer focus. New interconnect requests in California are trending lower so keep watching that.
- PV-Magazine: Brookfield proposes takeover of TerraForm Power
- Business Journals: Large N.C. solar developer sells to California-based renewable company
- Denver Post: PUC clears Xcel Energy agreement that paves way for more solar generation
- EDF: Distributed Energy Resources to Dominate at Gathering of Nationwide Utility Regulators
- Vox: Donald Trump wants to dismantle Obama’s climate rules. So who’s going to stop him?
- Reuters: Sunrun raises full-year 2016 solar installations view
- Deseret News: Rocky Mountain Power seeks fee hikes for new solar customers
- Los Angeles Times: Solar power proponents hopeful Trump sees benefit of growing industry
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Have a great day!
Yann