Welcome to Q4 2015, the busiest time of the year for everyone in solar. Now comes the race to closing those deals, build your backlog and place some assets into service. 2016 is sure to be a busy time in solar so keep focus on being informed and thinking ahead. Sometimes we all get caught up on running on the solar treadmill that we forget about the innovative ideas we had. So take your time and do something positive for your company and the industry by being innovative!
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Another incredible story coming out of California which has not yet been reported on! While everyone was busy gloating about the 50% RPS bill that passed in CA, few eyes have been following the NEM 2.0 debate but it’s time to change that. The Office of Ratepayer Advocates is there to represent the ratepayers (ALL of them) and is appointed by the Governor. Historically the ORA has been pro net metering and issued opinions that represented the issue fairly and accurately. It seems this has changed (politics?) because in their NEM 2.0 filing, the ORA is advocating for solar fees that are WORSE than the egregious fees the utility in Arizona was asking for. This is the same utility that dropped the issue because it was so outrageous, yet the ORA appears to be going anti-solar in CA. The key issue seems that utilities are looking for solar customers to make up for bad utility investments and subsidize non-solar energy costs in addition to fixed transmission costs. The whole thing is fishy and needs to be reported on properly. Filing is the first story today…
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To follow on the discussion from yesterday and last week, I am wondering what a national energy policy would look like in the US. We currently have 50 States that regulated (or don’t) energy at various levels and create an extreme climate of complexity. If the national government took over, would the policy around energy have to center around carbon instead of electrons? Could the national policy revolve around access to the grid and make distributed energy a more important part of central planning?
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Quite a week for climate politics including how solar energy plays a role. The Pope visited the United States visiting with President Obama who also met with President Xi of China. Unveiling carbon regulations for the Chinese economy to recover from pollution related downward pressure, all of these policies are key to getting somewhere in Paris during the COP21 talks. For some reason, all of the obvious climate and financial benefits of climate and solar policies appear to be falling on deaf ears within the DC beltway. I don't know what it will take to make this change, but it has to happen at some point.
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