Only 1 lesson to learn. Don’t get me wrong, beating Amendment 1 in Florida was a great victory. Being against solar was an easy branding exercise and then people like Jimmy Buffett did more with their soapbox than any money could buy. The biggest lesson that needs to be learned and not repeated is that this was self inflicted by the solar industry. Amendment 1 was a defensive tactic to stop the announced solar PPA amendment. If the solar industry doesn’t learn this lesson, it may try to do another ballot amendment next year. Be very wary of such attempts.
China is taking the lead? While the President-Elect is going twazy (twitter crazy) over China, our inability to understand science has kept real climate change action at bay. In the meantime, China has turned 180 degrees and working on becoming the global leader on climate change.
The Asia solar market is? Every year we hear about the next markets. Middle East, Africa, Latin America! But lately it has been all about Asia outside of China. Japan is reaching the tail end and everyone has HUGE pipelines in Thailand, Philippines and neighboring Countries. Story today says that it may all be for not and is delayed if it happens at all.
My Christmas wish list. In case you were in the market to buy me a gift (since I send you SolarWakeup for free every day), the kind folks at CleanTechnica put together a nice list. The electric motorcycle seems particularly fun.
- Grist: 5 lessons activists can learn from Florida’s successful ballot fight to defend solar
- Los Angeles Times: Op-Ed – Through climate change denial, we’re ceding global leadership to China
- PV-Tech: Thai solar slated to rejuvenate from mid-2017 but long dry spells expected
- CleanTechnica: 10 Top Cleantech Christmas Gifts
- Energy Collective: DNV GL – “We Need New Tests and Standards to Prevent Major Failures”
- PV-Magazine: Environment America issues Block The Sun report
- Greentech Media: This Upgrade to Renewable Portfolio Standards Could Make Them a Lot More Effective
- Vox: Why the International Energy Agency has grown bullish, but perhaps not bullish enough, on renewables
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Have a great day!
Yann