Holy Shit, Suniva. Last week I told you I liked many of the folks at Suniva. So to my friends still at the company. GET THE HELL OUT OF THERE! Suniva made a bad business decision in opening a factory in Michigan at the wrong time. Keep in mind that Suniva has long been arguing that SolarWorld’s trade cases have impacted their module assembly in Asia. Now the company owned by Shunfeng, which also owns Suntech wants to destroy the US solar industry. In reality, Suniva just handed the Trump administration the perfect way to do just that. The Koch Brothers are popping champagne bottles right now, a ‘China is playing unfair’, talking point will be the populist agenda covering up the desire to hurt US energy consumers across the Country. Suniva should be ashamed of itself instead of this ridiculous attempt to take everyone else down with them.
Storage keeps moving. California is moving forward with energy storage. The State will lead once again as the customers transition to NEM 2.0 and most customers go to time of use with demand charge schedules. I will have some announcements about my work in this space soon. If you are involved in developing storage projects, let me know so I can let you know personally about the work I will be involved in.
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My comments from yesterday. I feel pretty strongly about what I said yesterday. If you missed it, I said that BNEF should not have invited Rick Perry to speak at their summit. I heard from many of you, both agreeing and disagreeing with me. My point is simple, Perry had the solar delegation in his office a few weeks ago. This was a one-way conversation and not a pitch on what renewable energy can do for America. So why put him in a room that would groan and shake their heads at his comments. If we want to impact change, let’s get away from the politicians and focus on the people. That’s who we should be pitching and educating. People fire Congressman, not trade associations or conference participants. People have the power.
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Have a great day!
Yann