This is your SolarWakeup for June 15th, 2017

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Last call to join me in the energy storage conversation next week in San Francisco. The focus is on speaking with IPPs and operators of solar farms, primarily in Western States. I want to see how energy storage plays with your portfolio, operating and in-development. I look forward to meeting with many of you.

Getting into double digits. Solar and wind reached 10% of energy production in April. This is the first time that it reached double digits and got to 7% in 2016. That’s a long way from the less than 1% talking point we had just a few years ago. Note that this information typically leaves out distributed solar which could skew the data to the lower band of reality.

Cost of Money Winner. I want to be Apple’s solar buyer. Give me that cost of money and  access to the capital and let me create an IPP of solar assets. With the green bond capital, Apple could probably get solar to match its usage across most markets using energy storage and other renewable sources. We all thought pension funds were the cheap capital, it seems that they were the long term capital.

Corporate Outreach. Amazon going solar isn’t a big deal, they’ve done much bigger solar for their web services business. However, Bezos talking about solar is a big deal. He’s currently the richest man in the world and runs a company that lives in almost all of our lives. Bezos thinking about and talking about the company’s solar goals means a lot to reaching solar supporters outside of our industry.

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Have a great day!

Yann