Call Your Representative. Don’t forget to call your member of Congress and ask them to fight for the ITC to be included in the tax extenders bill. This is a crucial time to fight for your industry especially in residential, the credits will disappear before you know. Click here to find your Congresswoman or call (202) 224-3121 to have the operator connect you.
The New Energy Outlook. Bloomberg has released the annual energy outlook which is a forward looking view on the global energy markets. You can see the highlights here and catch the analyst talking about it in the link below.
Schletter US Factory Auction. I didn’t realize this happened but Schletter auctioned off its factory in Shelby, NC. The reality is that in-house manufacturing requires tremendous volume and backlog, something that is difficult to achieve with utility scale and C&I racking systems especially with a competitive market. Maybe the idea is to rebuild the company with an outsourced model.
New York Times Gets This Wrong. The New York Times tested “EVs” by driving roundtrip from LA to Las Vegas. The 8 hours of driving took 5 hours of charging. Of course this ‘test drive’ wasn’t done in a Tesla, it was done in a Chevy Bolt which naturally skews the entire test. This shows the fight that’s ahead for us in solar as well, imagine if someone did a test on how much energy you can offset on a house and used 10% efficient modules instead of the market leading technology.
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- Bloomberg: BNEF Brief – The World Will Get Half Its Power From Wind, Solar by 2050
- Shelby Star: Schletter items auctioned off
- New York Times: L.A. to Vegas and Back by Electric Car – 8 Hours Driving, 5 More Plugged In
- Utility Dive: New Jersey’s 2021 storage goals could require $650M in subsidies, report for legislature finds
- Axios: Mike Pence refuses to answer whether climate change is a threat to the U.S.
- Think Progress: In upstate New York, fossil fuels will turn into solar and data
- Greentech Media: Orsted Wins New Jersey’s First Offshore Wind Solicitation
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Have a great day!
Yann