This is your SolarWakeup for January 30th, 2017

Moving On! As you all know, I have spent the last two years working at Conergy. I have thoroughly enjoyed the work, its challenges and leading the Americas team and now it is time for new opportunities. Late last year I left Conergy and took some much needed time off. I remain available to you all at my SolarWakeup email address and look forward to staying in touch with you.

It’s all clickbait. I get the obsession. Writers have editors that have business owners. The ad folks are just focusing on the metrics of sessions and clicks to drive up revenues. No doubt that a crazy headline can drive you to want to click and read something. It’s frustrating for me because I make sure to spend the time to give you articles that actually have relevance but I fail you sometimes. To date I have never had ads on SolarWakeup so my obsession with clicks is based on wanting to get bigger and better. Trust your article flow, and clickbait wont impact you.

Sigh. Probably the best tweet to date, Elon Musk wrote the single word. As Bryan and I discussed, legitimizing crazy stuff and getting caught in the messaging will be bad for your ability to cause change. Also things slow down after the initial whirlwind (typically) mostly because the bureaucracy is meant to move slow.

FERC gets a chair. LaFleur will be the interim chair of FERC until more members are selected and approved by the Senate. PV-Magazine has it that Senate Majority Leader’s Energy Advisor could get the nod as the next Chair. Keep your eye out on PURPA as the commission convenes.

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Have a great day!

Yann