Going Underground. Shoutout to the awesome team at Dandelion for their launch. It’s not solar but solar has given these awesome people a baseline of knowledge that will surely change the world. Go Katie and Jake!
California Goes For It. Cap and Trade gets the extension that Governor Brown argued for very publicly in the legislature. SB 100, the 100% RPS bill, looks like it is making good progress clearing some hurdles in the assembly. California will keep tracking forward regardless what DC and Red States argue for. Oklahoma announced a 10MW yesterday, woohoo!
NRG Assets Get Interest. Maybe when NRG thought about raising money to appease the activist investors, it didn’t choose renewables because of the image it created for the company. Maybe the choice was based on the ability to actually sell the assets. Think about it. What if NRG had decided to sell its coal power plants instead? How much interest for those assets and how much cash would it generate after paying off the debt? Solar is simply more valuable at this point and easier to trade.
- CleanTechnica: Google Creates “Dandelion” To Promote Geothermal Energy
- PV-Magazine: California’s energy transition needs more than cap and trade
- Bloomberg: NRG Sees Buyers Circling for Renewables Unit Amid Cost-Cut Plans
- GreenBiz: Distributed solar beats coal on cost for co-ops
- Renew Economy: Australia’s $10 billion wind and solar boom: But then what?
- Utility Dive: Third time’s the charm – Regulators accept HECO plan for 100% renewables
- Futurism: Elon Musk Tells National Governors Association How We Could Power the U.S. With Solar
- Electrek: Tesla executive in charge of solar roof is leaving the company ahead of the launch
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Have a great day!
Yann