Start your Tuesday with some inside baseball, definitely with some intended pun. There is some hometown drama in San Francisco between PG&E and Sunrun, with the Giants in the middle. The question is similar to that raised by Vice President Biden and is about the nature of incumbent participants. If you have extraordinary power awarded to you, it comes with great responsibility and in this case PG&E does not appear to be living up to the task. Should the Giants keep taking their money to allow them the publicity that comes with being a sponsor of a World Series caliber team?
If you are in New York, make sure to get your Vote Solar Equinox tickets for tomorrow evening!
News
1 24/7 Wall Street:
Chinese Solar Stocks Set to Rise With Eyes on US Settlement
2 San Francisco Chronicle:
Solar war heats up - Sunrun wants S.F. Giants to dump PG&E
3 PV-Magazine:
Vice President Joe Biden wows crowd at SPI
4 Energy Collective:
Green Power Is The Key For Utilities To Keep Their Commercial Clients
5 Reuters:
AES files first utility-sponsored solar ABS with SEC
6 Greentech Media:
Is California’s Net Metering 2.0 a Solar Tax Risk?
7 Scientific American:
Can Solar Desalination Slake the World's Thirst?
8 Yale:
Beyond Sprawl - A New Vision of The Solar Suburbs of the Future
Opinions:
9 Utility Dive:
A good rate design is hard to find - Experts push utility-solar compromise
Have a great day!
Yann
It has been widely publicized that the Chinese President is coming to Washington D.C.to meet with President Obama. The delegation is sure to discuss many topics and my presumption is that solar energy is one of them. The ITC is a benefit for the industry that almost directly offsets the cost of the trade tariff. The tariff artificially inflates the true cost of solar modules that could be used here. The politics here are inherently conservative and should be appealing to Republicans. Open trade can lower costs. Conserving energy through competitive markets lowers costs. So when the debate stage is in front of Reagan’s Air Force One, the question that should be asked is; Isn’t solar energy a great Republican Agenda item?
Yann
News
1 ABC:
President Xi's Visit Highlights Washington State-China Ties
2 Huffington Post:
What Would Reagan Do About CO2?
3 Renewable Energy World:
The Solar Foundation to Re-Energize Solar America Cities
4 Bloomberg:
NRG's GreenCo Plan Echoes Clean-Power Shift in Germany
5 PV-Magazine:
Colorful London Mayor rounds on UK government's solar cuts
6 Utility Dive:
Southern Co. jumpstarts operation of Georgia solar+storage test project
7 CleanTecnica:
The Dollars & Cents Of Pricing A PV Home
8 USA Today:
A Lone Star leader in solar
Opinions:
9 Grist:
This climate-denying Catholic congressman is boycotting the pope’s speech
Have a great day!
Yann
These are the top 10 most read solar articles by your peers this week!
News
1 Fortune:
Vice President Biden - Give oil industry's tax credits to clean energy
2 Greentech Media:
Two National Solar Trade Groups Clash Over How to Lobby for a Key Federal Tax Credit
3 Washington Post:
Why storing solar energy and using it at night is closer than you think
4 Vox:
Reimagining electric utilities for the 21st century
5 Bloomberg:
SunEdison's Yieldco Overreach Stirs Angst at Solar Companies
6 24/7 Wall Street:
After the Sell-Off, 3 Solar Stocks to Buy Now
7 Greentech Media:
California Passes a Bill Targeting 50% Renewables by 2030
8 Fortune:
In the solar industry, it's a scramble to the top
9 PV-Tech:
US solar industry must unite to save ITC, warns SEIA’s Resch
10 Huffington Post:
The Next Solar (r)Evolution
The Top 10 is ranked by the number of SolarWakeup.com readers that clicked on the news article during the previous week. It is the poll of the most relevant solar news of the week as judged by your colleagues and competitors.
Have a great day!
Yann
Another successful year for SPI, a huge crowd which hopefully won’t be the peak of the event as we go into an execution year. Acquiring developments across the Country is the focus for many of us but we have to keep looking ahead as well. Storage is now being looked at as having the potential cost declines similar to that of solar with the electrification of the transportation sector gaining momentum and scale driving up volumes. Enjoy your weekend and get some rest for your feet!
Yann
News
1 PV-Magazine:
Utility-scale battery storage to reach 12 GW, $8.44 billion by 2024
2 Vox:
How inefficient climate policies can build support for efficient ones
3 Think Progress:
New Study Shows Just How Deadly Air Pollution Really Is
4 Renew Economy:
Tesla coming, but consumers may lose as networks, retailers fight over solar and storage
5 Variety:
David Letterman Will Explore Climate Change For National Geographic Docu-Series
6 Greentech Media:
Small, Early Investors in Suniva Washed Out in Shunfeng Acquisition
7 Bloomberg:
SunEdison's Yieldco Overreach Stirring Angst for Solar Companies
8 The Guardian:
Boris Johnson speaks out against government plans to cut solar subsidies
Opinions:
9 Arizona Central:
Roberts - Retired chief justice - Regulators can force APS to disclose dark money
Have a great day!
Yann
