If you have been reading SolarWakeup for the past 4 years, you know that I am a HUGE fan of the SunShot program. The team is amazing, has accomplished their targeted goals of bringing solar to $1/watt well before their self imposed deadline. More importantly, SunShot has deployed taxpayer money in a intelligent way, monitored each project to great detail, audited the results and ensured cost sharing. My favorite part of the program is that it has resulted in $22 of private capital for every $1 of public money. We all know that there is not enough VC and angel money in our sector, but SunShot is doing their part. If you see the new head of SunShot, Charlie Gay, at SPI make sure to say hello and thank you for the team’s great work.
Have a great day!
News
1 PV-Magzine:
DOE announces $107 million in funding for solar technologies
2 CleanTechnica:
Chevy Bolt Shocks — Will Have 238-Mile Range (EPA)
3 PV-Tech:
US installed 41.2MW of energy storage in Q2 2016
4 Las Vegas Review Journal:
Carson City judge’s ruling aligns with new proposal for existing rooftop solar
5 Solar Power World:
SEPA lays out blueprints to utility-solar industry collaboration at SPI
6 Bloomberg:
Solar Rooftop Revolution Fizzles in U.S. on Utility Pushback
7 Washington Post:
The government just decided the future of California’s desert
8 Fortune:
How Data And Machine Learning Are Changing The Solar Industry
Opinions:
9 SolarWakeup:
Live @SPI2016 with S&C Electric and Vizn Energy
Have a great day!
Yann
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SPI has kicked off and according to the opening keynotes, it is time for us to get up and sit at the adult table, grow up and recognize what we have accomplished as an industry. Let’s remember that SPI is a partnership between SEIA and SEPA, in a 50/50 venture called SETS. SPI should generate about $10million of profits this week which gets split between the groups. This year is also the first year that SEPA no longer has the word solar in it which makes me wonder. The 51st State initiative released a new report about how utilities will work with DG which I have yet to read but keep that in mind as you walk around SPI. Take it slow, Vegas is a marathon, much like the solar industry.
Have a great day!
News
1 PV-Tech:
SPI 2016 - Time for solar energy industry to grow up
2 Bloomberg:
Nevada to Rule on Buffett’s Utility Deal With SolarCity
3 Think Progress:
Donald Trump filled out a survey about science and it is amazing
4 EDF:
How One Utility Is Changing the Clean Energy Business in Brooklyn and Queens
5 PV-Magazine:
NRG snatches up 2.1 GW of SunEdison projects
6 Vox:
Rifts are forming in the GOP on climate and clean energy.
7 Solar Industry:
SEIA Kicks Off National Solar PV Recycling Program
8 Bangor Daily News:
Under new plan, small Maine solar generators would slowly lose credits
Opinions:
9 SolarWakeup:
Live @ SPI2016 with Enphase Energy
Have a great day!
Yann
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