The State Tour. This week’s EnergyWakeup. I’ve always been intrigued about the State chapters of SEIA. They are political animals that sometimes have a hard time to get going but when they do and the cylinders are firing, watch out. It seems to me that Oregon is in that position right now. Budgets have been drastically increased, fundraising is going well and a new executive director has been hired. Now add a well thought out Oregon Solar Plan and 115MW of new solar development coming to the State. Our conversation is wide ranging including the intricacies of how OSEIA works with SEIA. Plus an awesome new intro song!
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Winning over land owners. A Texas Tech Professor was on the Pod Save America podcast and she said something really interesting about her conversations with Texas land owners. Oil has been driving big revenues for them but it’s messy and intrusive to the property. Wind farms on the other hand are now bringing in $60million in revenues to land owners. Texas is on the edge of being a solar juggernaut and revenues will be interesting to watch.
Make sure you listen to the latest episodes of EnergyWakeup. Google is now at 100% renewables, how do they do it and what is next? Sam Arons talks to SolarWakeup. We also speak with OSEIA Director about Oregon’s solar market.
Going 100%. The content at Vox is quite good of late. David Roberts tackles the idea of going 100% renewables and if it can work. We work in this sector but what do the RPS’s really mean for our business, this is a great place to start.
- SolarWakeup: Jeff Bissonnette, from Oregon SEIA on 10% solar, 115MW awarded and National SEIA
- GreenBiz: Wind energy goes big in Texas
- Vox: A beginner’s guide to the debate over 100% renewable energy
- PV-Magazine: Global battery pipeline reaches 3.4 GW in Q1
- Renewable Energy World: Sunrun Said to Seek $200 Million in Debt for Rooftop Solar
- Renew Economy: Arrival of big solar puts renewable energy target back on track
- Utility Dive: New NREL report provides missing metric for valuing solar+storage vacilities
- Atlanta Journal Constitution: Norcross’ Suniva cuts jobs as China, Trump, overshadow solar industry
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Have a great day!
Yann