Florida Looks Ahead. It’s well known that Florida’s net metering policy (which is more than 10 years old) is one of the fairest and straightforward policies in the Country. With the highest energy consumption per capita (residential) in the Country, distributed generation through solar and solar thermal is part of our DNA. The PSC held a workshop to discuss this and got tens of thousands of contacts from consumers asking for things to remain as is. Those that talk cost shift fail to identify many variables of why their statement is incorrect and intellectually dishonest. Florida will continue growing their solar market.
Big Tech To Share. Watching big tech leaning in on climate change is great. They have the cash and innovative gene to do things differently. It’s also easier to erase your carbon debt when you started in the late 90s. Here is the challenge to big tech. You have to pull the rest of industry and commerce along with you. Your customers and partners should be able to share the same climate values as you without the need for a FERC regulated subsidiary of their own. Teach them, open source your contracts and let them participate in renewable purchasing.
What 2222 Means. Who should SolarWakeup talk to about FERC order 2222? Maybe we don’t know enough until the market rules are established, but a session on what-ifs is intriguing to me.
Credit Outlook Unreliable. S&P is downgrading their credit outlook to negative for California’s investor owned utilities. This is another market signal that the way forward isn’t through the monopoly system. The CPUC cannot create a reliable grid, manage wildfire risk and decarbonize on the backs of broken business models.
Launch of the SCF Suite 2.0. My friends over at Sustainable Capital Finance continue to innovate in the fast-growing C&I sector. They just launched their newly revamped software, the SCF Suite 2.0. The platform offers solar developers and EPC’s an efficient, centralized dashboard to receive indicative PPA pricing, download proposals, and populate & execute term sheets, EPC agreements & PPAs. The SCF Suite has been retooled with a fresh new look and the addition of many highly requested features. If you’re interested in learning more about how this software can speed up your transaction process, as well as increase your sales conversion rates through automated agreement population and e-signature features, feel free to check out their info page.
- Tampa Bay Times: Major Florida rooftop solar incentive won’t change yet
- Axios: Big Tech takes the climate change lead
- PV-Magazine: FERC’s new DER rule to pry open big opportunities for solar, storage
- Utility Dive: S&P lowers outlook for California IOUs in light of unprecedented wildfires, regulatory risk
- Solar Power World: SEIA challenges PURPA changes that could discourage solar development
- PV-Tech: EU raises emissions reduction ambition following renewables progress
- Bloomberg: Solar Panels Absorb the Sun So You Don’t Have to
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Best, Yann