Would You Rather? It’s still hard to understand what causes pushback to solar project developments. Farmland that’s used for solar means that the farming isn’t able to pay the same rent. People don’t want to see it? But they still want their lights to turn on. Ultimately it becomes an exercise of staying in the dialogue as long as possible because homeowners also don’t want a gas, coal or nuclear plane near their home either, they probably pick solar over all their options.
You Get A Battery (Plant). France gets it, someone in the EU needs to be building battery factory ecosystems and Macron seems to setting his Country up for success. The reality is that engine manufacturing is getting replaced by battery manufacturing and the best way to build a battery plant is to lean in and create a market beyond EVs. Manufacturing plants are all about the throughput, that is where “we make it up through volume” comes from, an EV plant that doubles as a storage product is also important.
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