The Energy Fair. Meet me next week in Custer, Wisconsin for the famous Energy Fair as I host a special edition of SolarWakeup Live! sponsored by Panasonic with leaders in Wisconsin’s solar market. This is my first time to this event and would love to meet many of you! More info on the event here
Solar Investor In Congress. Dan McCready is getting a second shot to win the race for congress and he’s being accused of shipping jobs overseas since the solar companies bought Chinese solar panels. That’s a stupid argument. I hope he wins.
Big Jobs. There are many renewable jobs in the US but globally that numbers gets real big real quick.
Green New Deal. We can all agree on the high level goals, more clean energy, less pollution, more jobs and access to all. How do we get there? That’s a question in detail that we need to keep figuring out.
Smart People Talking. Two of the more interesting and smart people in energy talk on the ILSR podcast. Give it a listen.
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The Energy Fair. Meet me next week in Custer, Wisconsin for the famous Energy Fair as I host a special edition of SolarWakeup Live! with leaders in Wisconsin’s solar market. This is my first time to this event and would love to meet many of you! More info on the event here
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Going Public. Reuters has the news that the solar loan and financing provider, Sunnova, is planning to go public. Over the years, Sunnova has built an impressive dealer network across the Country. The filing, likely still confidential at this point, is the first step in the process but as a financing provider, the path could be primed for success. With a growing market, Sunnova is poised to succeed in this process.
Respect The Roof. The solar industry has to figure out a plan to combat bad installers that are lying and cheating homeowners across the Country. This happens in most sectors but solar is under a microscope and some States have enacted consumer rights processes. The problem is that much of that is new and not being followed by the bad actors. The same is true for installers that are not using code compliant products and installation methods. Most of the focus is on the lending rules but not on creating a system that will work for 25-30 years, so we have to do more to get good solar on roofs across the Country.
Retailers Fight For Solar Access. Retailers have long fought for their own secure access to solar contracts. This Bloomberg story is about Target in Virginia but trade groups have been fighting this battle ever since I’ve been in solar.
Climate In Iowa? With terrible flooding and farmers understanding the risk of climate change, the more traditional campaign run by Vice President Biden is bringing the issue up on the campaign. In head to head programming with Trump, the Biden campaign is clearly seeing polling and voter data that says this issue brings voters over to their campaign.
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Bad Idea To Ask. If PG&E asks the bankruptcy court to cancel PPAs for solar and wind generation and the court grants it, PG&E will have eliminated its ability to sign new contracts and increased the cost to consumers in one giant mistake. This will make CCAs the viable alternative for developers to sign contracts with and reduce the need for PG&E to exist. That is exactly why they are busy doling out advertising dollars across the energy universe, because goodwill is always needed most right before you do something like this.
MI IRP Approved. Good news for Michigan. Now let’s go back and make distributed generation better for all the homeowners in the State.
Electric Mass Transit. Great interview with one of the more interesting CEOs in the clean tech space, the CEO of Proterra.
Support Solar Foundation. On June 20th, if you are in the DC area, join The Solar Foundation for their annual summer solstice party. You can get your tickets here and let them know you saw it here on SolarWakeup!
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