Fill The Ocean. Last night I stopped at a supercharger and without much thought saw that the car was charging at 96kW for nearly an hour. Plus there were 15 other cars in the lot charging at the same time. What will happen when there needs to be 100 charging ports all going at once? Who will pay for the service upgrade and who pays for the demand charges? The reality is that the grid is not meant to have multiple MW scale loads with sporadic consumptions without foresight. That would be like filling the ocean with your garden hose.
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California Priorities. Don’t get this post misunderstood about how I think about nuclear power but when it comes to energy policy that is supposed to think in decades and not years, how could it be possible to want to change how solar and storage participate in the grid operations. For diplomacy, optionality and consumer costs, every barrier should be removed in the growth of solar plus storage so that the grid can be as intelligent and resilient as the 21st century opportunity represents.
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Be In The Know. Two companies are innovating more than anyone else in residential solar and they’re both very good friends of SolarWakeup. CommonBond and OpenSolar have been building quietly and fiercely, with an eye to make things easier, faster and cheaper for installers. Now they have partnered to bring you even more integrated value in the fastest platform of services. If you’re installing residential solar, you owe it to yourself to check out their integration here
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Coal’s New Opportunity. Half a decade ago there was a decision by policy makers to lift the oil export embargo in the US. That shift in energy law would open the ability for a long term extension of clean energy tax credits but it didn’t come without an ideological fight within the environmental movement. Does it make sense to create bigger solar markets by expanding the opportunity for oil? While that question was fruitless because the embargo was going to be lifted regardless, the path opened up for the ITC extension. Today, there is a different issue, particularly for Europe but it bodes important for the key Senate vote sitting in West Virginia. Was gas the wrong bridge fuel for Europe and should the clean energy market put coal in its tent? Hear me out. Why wouldn’t there be some sort of policy that gives coal what they want, regardless of what they want, so that Europe feels diplomatic security in return for a certainty that clean energy wins the long run? Coal is basically impossible to finance, which gives its longevity the exact timeframe that policymakers want and in this case the vote that we need in the Senate. The world needs a standalone tax credit for storage, for our resilience and for our market to pave the way for the world to show that storage is centrally important and capable to have that responsibility. Solar, wind, hydrogen and others need tax credits to spur investments totaling trillions, so let’s do what has to be done to get going.
Getting To 2022 COD. Join the Sustainable Capital Finance (SCF) team on May 4th, 10am PST, as they share solutions to industry wide challenges causing project delays. The goal for attending developers and Epcs is to undertake strategies enabling project reach energization in 2022. This free webinar is recommended for solar installers, developers and originators involved or interested in financing C&I, nonprofit & governmental solar as well as electric vehicle charging solutions. To register, simply click here.
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