No Commentary. Energy is going to be on the agenda in the next White House and the next Congress. Energy is where the money is at. Folks like Forrest Lucas from Lucas Oil and Harold Hamm from Continental Resources are high on the list for cabinet positions. The White House is covered in each corner by the Senate and House of Representatives. Tax reform, FERC, PURPA, it’s all on the table over the next legislative session. Stay tuned for more.
Solar beats utilities in Florida. Amendment 1 was backed by $26million from the utilities. Solar advocates were able to push back the amendment and defeat the attempt from the utilities to eliminate net metering. The amendment came about from an ill advised attempt by the environmentalists to fundraise on their own amendment, this was a self inflicted wound that could and should have been avoided. Solar should learn its lesson next time and not let itself get hijacked into an issue. More on this to come….
- Miami Herald: Florida voters say no to misleading solar amendment
- Huffington Post: If We Want To Stop Climate Change, We’re Going To Have To Pay For It
- PV-Magazine: TerraForm Power reveals proposed settlement with SunEdison
- Energy Collective: Who’s Waging The War On Coal? Not The U.S. Government
- SolarWakeup: Vivint Solar Raises $200million in Tax Equity, Installs 59MW in Q3
- Bloomberg: China Scales Back Solar, Wind Ambitions as Renewables Cool
- Solar Industry: Maxgen acquires solar om unit from enphase energy
- PV-Tech: Formerly unpopular HECO solar self-supply scheme picking up speed
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Have a great day!
Yann