An interesting study about the ‘duck curve’ in California is out over the weekend from consulting firm ScottMadden. The point that intrigued me was the impact on the duck curve came from utility scale solar and not distributed resources. The data that creates this conclusion is the difference between the system load and net load. The duck curve is clearly visible in the net load but the system load is far more in line with the total load. More analysis should be done on this but if there continue to be more reports to this effect, solar may have additional information to use during net metering debates.
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I judge people by what they do, not what they say and I call it like it is. When companies were unfairly attacking net metering, I wasn’t worried about my advertisers, I let you know they were doing it. If SEIA wasn’t vocal enough about ITC, more than 10,000 of you signed a SolarPledge to push for a vocal and public support of the ITC extension. My point is, that right now SEIA is being asked to do more on net metering. So judge for yourself. The top story today is about unfair charges for solar customers in Illinois. Illinois isn’t a blockbuster solar State, yet, but here is the President of SEIA placing an OpEd in the State’s largest newspaper. If you want to make a difference, put yourself out there and make a difference. If you can’t find the action within you, get out of the way, we have gigawatts to deploy.
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The vote for approval of the merger is set. SolarCity is going to the shareholders on November 17th and will ask to become part of Tesla. Tesla lays out the the acquisition, an all stock deal, where the SolarCity shareholders will end up owning 6.9% of the combined companies. Tesla asks the shareholders to vote FOR the acquisition. We shall see how that all works out in just a few weeks. Also look at the article today that talks about solar in Texas, and how it will affect the daytime generation values given that solar prices in the as available markets and always clears first. Cheap gas, wind power and solar will make the free markets in Texas fun to watch.
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