I am finding myself in Los Angeles on the day that Strasburg and Kershaw face each other in a daytime matchup between the Dodgers and Nationals. I know that there must be someone with nice corporate tickets to the Dodgers and cant find anyone to give them to. Sooooo, let me be helpful and take a few off your hands, or join me and we can talk solar while watching a few hall of famers pitch against each other.
Which way would the panels face? Trump pitched the idea of having solar panels on the Mexico wall. This raises a lot of questions for me about which way the panels would face and where the energy would go. You could envision a microgrid wall that takes the energy and powers the technologically advanced wall itself or provide energy to communities near the wall. I’d be interested to see how this would work.
Oh, the games we play. One of the takeaways from many conversations in California about storage is the ‘rate window’ discussion. Everyone knows the windows are changing but no one knows what they are changing to. That is not by accident I think, as IOUs hope to create a market freeze on the solar front before releasing the new time schedules at which point storage and solar will be easily paired together.
Solar Sin City. In one of the most dramatic turn arounds from a policy front, Nevada will go from killing solar to passing a slew of solar friendly bills. As I had reported last month, the timing looked right and now you have net metering coming back, an RPS passing legislature and community solar looking to make an entrance. That is a big swing from a State that had to lay off thousands of solar employees that hopefully will find their way back into the market.
- Axios: Trump pitched Republican leaders on a solar-paneled border wall
- EDF: Southern California Edison attempts to delay renewable-friendly electricity rates
- Think Progress: Nevada legislature boosts clean energy, bringing back rooftop solar companies
- New York Times: Renewable Energy Push Is Strongest in the Reddest States
- PV-Tech: Indian PV manufacturers file anti-dumping petition against China, claim reports
- PV-Magazine: New York to procure $1.5 billion worth of renewables
- GreenBiz: At Enel and AGL, utilities beyond the U.S. embrace low-carbon future
- Utility Dive: North Carolina lawmakers embark on extensive energy policy reforms
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Have a great day!
Yann