Loaded news day for you. Shine upon my roof. SolarCity (which was really Tesla) announced their vision for the future of solar on Friday. Solar tiles and slates in a variety of shapes and colors will integrate solar and roofing material. My takeaway is that Tesla is looking to get into the roof replacement cycle and make the financial decision a bit different. The challenges and unknowns remain. No real details about efficiency, codes, design, partners or cost was released by Tesla. We are living dangerously. Last night we had the season premier of the Nat Geo show, Years of Living Dangerously. Solar in India was highlighted with a hat tip to Ohio’s factory of First Solar. The highlight of the show was the Nevada policy fight featuring Sunrun and former NRG CEO, David Crane. Cecily Strong from SNL was the host of the segment even got a tour of the Mandalay Bay solar roof. Build a wall, save a solar panel. Imagine a solar company going to a Trump rally and getting most of the people to agree with them. In this case it was all caught on video and really well produced. Watch it here. Trump likes solar, if he outlives it. In an ad libbed section of his stump speech, Trump went off script in Colorado this weekend. You can read the entire text of the solar portion, but he is telling his supporters in Colorado that solar has a 28 year payback while modules only last 10 years. Time for someone to educate the man in the Trump Tower that even solar on that roof may have a better payback than 28 years.
- SolarWakeup: Trump Believes That Solar Has A 28 Year Payback, Modules Last 10 years
- PV-Magazine: New York regulators propose to slowly transition C&I, community solar off of net metering
- CleanTechnica: Nevada On Track To Get World’s Biggest Concentrating Solar Power Plant
- GreenBiz: Minnesota plows a path toward a clean energy grid
- New York Times: Electric-Car Maker Tesla Plans to Sell Solar Roof Tiles Too
- Mashable: Celeb-packed ‘Years of Living Dangerously’ wants to make climate change a voting issue
- PV-Tech: New York commissions value of rooftop solar report
- The Hill: Solar battle rages in swing-state Florida
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Have a great day!
Yann