Come see me in Sacramento next Monday at 11:30am at the PAC-12 Sustainability Conference. Bill Walton and I will preach the solar gospel, hopefully driving campuses and students to be leaders and consumers of solar energy.
The Businesses Lead the Way. I’ve always said that our most important and most unserved advocate is the customer. When was the last time that you spoke to a customer for 2 or more years ago? Activate them to help push a policy or sell them some upgrade? We have to think outside the box on this because we have over a million customers nationally, that is a powerful target audience to help us all, including to refer more business to our industry.
Oak Tree Is Making Moves. I don’t know if Oak Tree is really into wire harnesses or the investment partner was hoping to wear cargo shorts more often. The key question for this deal is obvious, what was Dean wearing in the investment meeting??? Congrats to the whole Shoals team!
Turn the LePage. Maine needs to keep working on its policy. Every State matters and every year matters but as State fights go, sessions start and end but the education on solar policy never stops.
- Reuters: America’s hungriest wind and solar power users – big companies
- PV-Magazine: Shoals Technologies earns investment from Oaktree Capital
- Portland Press Herald: Solar bill gets initial approval in House, but it lacks votes to survive veto
- Greentech Media: Austin Energy Seeks to Boost Value With a United Fleet of Solar and Storage
- GreenBiz: How midsize cloud player Akamai buys clean power
- Business Journals: N.C. regulators call for proceeding on Duke Energy’s proposed 14.9% rate hike
- Huffington Post: EPA Chief Spent First Weeks Courting Fossil Fuel Execs, Exposing ‘Fatal Flaw’ At Agency
- Utility Dive: Utility customer engagement goes digital
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Have a great day!
Yann