Is DC-Coupled Storage The Next Solar Boom Segment?
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By Frank Andorka, Senior Correspondent What Happened: Our own Yann Brandt, the proprietor of this place, interviewed Josh Prueher, CEO of FlexGen, about the concept of DC-coupled energy storage and what it could mean for the solar industry. What are the major advantages of DC versus AC coupled energy storage for solar? How does solar start integrating storage in its projects? SolarWakeup’s View: As the race to unlock the solar+storage market heats up, the idea of DC-coupled storage is an intriguing one. In such a system, the storage devices are placed between the solar modules and the inverter, instead of the traditional … Read More
Tony Clifford from Standard Solar: Being acquired by Gaz Metro and working on SEIA
Tony Clifford has been with Standard Solar for over a decade, spending much of his time as the CEO until stepping aside late in 2016. This wasn’t his first time in solar, having worked for Solarex and BP Solar in the Carter/Reagan years. What are the parallels between the Carter/Reagan transition to those between Obama/Trump when it comes to solar? Standard Solar was recently acquired by Gaz Metro, a diversified energy company based in Montreal, which also owns Green Mountain Power. Tony and I discuss how the process played out and how Standard Solar was able to stand out amongst … Read More
News Roundtable: Presidential Election 2016 and What Will Trump Do? (Podcast)
The marathon Presidential election is over and Donald Trump is the next President. Join the podcast as Yann Brandt and Frank Andorka try to make some sense of what the election means to solar and how the industry did on the State level votes. Coverage includes what Trump’s moves could be on energy and votes in Arizona, Nevada and Florida. This is part 2 of 2.
News Roundtable: Presidential Election 2016 and State Solar Votes (Podcast)
The marathon Presidential election is over and Donald Trump is the next President. Join the podcast as Yann Brandt and Frank Andorka try to make some sense of what the election means to solar and how the industry did on the State level votes. Coverage includes what Trump’s moves could be on energy and votes in Arizona, Nevada and Florida. This is part 1 of 2.
The Sierra Club Thinks Amendment 1 Is The Worst (Podcast)
As the Nov. 8 election draws ever nearer (are we there yet?), Florida’s Amendment 1 comes ever closer to either success or failure — and Florida residents just can’t let the utilities win. More corruption was exposed this week by The Miami Herald — and we asked Mary Anne Hitt, director of the Sierra Club’s Beyond Coal program, to talk about it.