Have you booked your trip to SPI yet? Should make for a good event, make sure you remember that it is at Mandalay Bay and not the convention center.
Would You Like A Flux Capacitor With That? Growing a bit tired of the solar wall articles given that the notion combines something that is a rather dumb use of solar plus the fact it should never happen. Unless the wall ends up with 1.21GW that allows us to go back in time, I hope reporters stop giving coverage to this. (I win)
Stacking Additional Reasons For California Investments. Governor Brown seems intent on making some lasting changes in energy in California. Creating an uncertainty on storage, transmission and supply of natural gas in California added with lack of extensions of contracts to peaking plants, California is all but putting an ad out for more solar plus storage in the news.
Renew Your Office Energy. Microsoft joins a long list of corporates that seeks to leave the grid and become more of a market maker and taker. When large users no longer align their values with monopolies, they will exercise their ability to create their own contracts much to the renewable energy industry’s wishes.
- Vox: Donald Trump’s plan to build a solar border wall, explained with math
- Greentech Media: Aliso Canyon Should Close Permanently, Says California Governor Jerry Brown
- PV-Magazine: Microsoft defects from utility to purchase renewable energy
- EDF: How to pack more power into NYC’s energy-efficiency bill package
- San Diego Union Tribune: Commentary Renewables major force for San Diego economic development
- Midwest Energy News: Analysis – Ratepayers foot the bill for utilities’ push against rooftop solar
- Los Angeles Times: Bakersfield votes to end controversial program that funds home solar panels
- Public Radio Int’l: California’s electrical grid can’t handle all the solar energy the state is producing
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Have a great day!
Yann