COSEIA. Join me tomorrow in Denver as I interview the team behind the Clean Energy Federal Credit Union, a project years in the making. What questions do you want to hear answers to? How can the lending community help your business?
Taxes and Tariffs. We will be talking a lot more about tariffs this week but it’s clear that tax reform and tariffs had a huge effect on the year solar had in 2017. Now that those things are figured out, people are back to putting their heads down and getting stuff done. Question for you, what is it going to take for C&I to get into the multi-MW scale?
Semis and Buses. I am intrigued by the business opportunities that electric vehicles present in our energy future. Made more interesting by the deployment of electric semis and buses in fleets of the future. First, electric vehicles are simply better. Second, we have a lot of work to do to enable the fleets to not be affected by long duration charging. My guess is we are a few years from energy demand growing in the US.
He Is Back. Arnold, man of many accomplishments, has a major task ahead of him. He is suing the oil companies for their failure to disclose the health risks of climate change. Comparing it to the tobacco companies, he wants to use civil litigation to drive some change. I wonder if he’s been approached to help the solar space.
San Francisco. We will have some big news including another speaker for Wakeup Live SF this week, mark April 10th on your calendar to join your colleagues.
- Teslarati: Tesla’s solar rooftop array at Gigafactory 1 is starting to take shape
- GreenBiz: Here’s what would drive even more electric buses into U.S. cities
- CleanTechnica: Schwarzenegger To Sue Oil Companies, Compares Them To Murderers
- SolarWakeup: 5 GW of Solar And Wind In Virginia? Yes, Please.
- Star Tribune: Xcel seeking new way to charge for nuclear energy costs
- Vox: Power companies have resisted climate policy. Now it might be their only hope.
- PV-Tech: Part of Canadian Solar’s Californian PV plant portfolio sold to Korean utility
- Tech Crunch: Volkswagen has locked down $25B in battery supplies for its electric vehicle push
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Have a great day!
Yann