This is your SolarWakeup for November 2nd, 2023
Managing Installer Cash Flow. Interest rates are the highest in 22 years, increasing solar financing costs and softening consumer demand for loan products. Businesses are feeling the pain of strained cash flows, labor costs and profitability pressures. Palmetto, a B2B technology company accelerating the adoption of clean energy, has announced a new partnership offering for solar installers to help stabilize cash flows and grow faster in today’s market. Built on top of Palmetto’s Clean Energy Operating Platform, this is a comprehensive suite of tools and services enabling installers to streamline operations, optimize performance, and increase profitability. Visit https://www.palmetto.com/
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This is your SolarWakeup for October 31st, 2023
Happy Transmission Day. DOE’s loan office has selected three transmission projects for loan guarantees of $1.3billion. Great news, but let’s be real, this is a drop in the bucket. The bucket of need, bucket of pipeline and bucket of what support could be. Getting cheap and reliable energy is impossible if the transmission isn’t there to move it around to places that need it and have ridiculously high energy prices.
Do A Domestic Favor. One of my favorite workdays used to be going into the Quick Mount factory on Saturday mornings and work alongside our team. Mostly I was there to hand out donuts because I slowed the productivity down. But in some ways I loved being in the back of our office where the factory was, hearing the machines punching holes in l-brackets and pressure fitting the infamous elevated water seal, but also running the factory on Saturdays meant that we were running overtime to catch up on higher than forecasted sales the prior week. Unfortunately that factory isn’t there anymore, you could save a few cents moving that production to China. Installers, and more specifically distributors, can be brutal to drive that price down so I always hated losing an installer. If you’re an installer, figure out where your racking comes from and demand a domestic option, trust me the price difference is nothing compared to what a little negotiation on the inverter and panel could do for you. But you could be the reason a factory turns on the lights on Saturday morning.
Managing Installer Cash Flow. Interest rates are the highest in 22 years, increasing solar financing costs and softening consumer demand for loan products. Businesses are feeling the pain of strained cash flows, labor costs and profitability pressures. Palmetto, a B2B technology company accelerating the adoption of clean energy, has announced a new partnership offering for solar installers to help stabilize cash flows and grow faster in today’s market. Built on top of Palmetto’s Clean Energy Operating Platform, this is a comprehensive suite of tools and services enabling installers to streamline operations, optimize performance, and increase profitability. Visit https://www.palmetto.com/finance or contact capital@palmetto.com for more.
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This is your SolarWakeup for October 30th, 2023
Managing Installer Cash Flow. Interest rates are the highest in 22 years, increasing solar financing costs and softening consumer demand for loan products. Businesses are feeling the pain of strained cash flows, labor costs and profitability pressures. Palmetto, a B2B technology company accelerating the adoption of clean energy, has announced a new partnership offering for solar installers to help stabilize cash flows and grow faster in today’s market. Built on top of Palmetto’s Clean Energy Operating Platform, this is a comprehensive suite of tools and services enabling installers to streamline operations, optimize performance, and increase profitability. Visit https://www.palmetto.com/
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This is your SolarWakeup for October 26th, 2023
Managing Installer Cash Flow. Interest rates are the highest in 22 years, increasing solar financing costs and softening consumer demand for loan products. Businesses are feeling the pain of strained cash flows, labor costs and profitability pressures. Palmetto, a B2B technology company accelerating the adoption of clean energy, has announced a new partnership offering for solar installers to help stabilize cash flows and grow faster in today’s market. Built on top of Palmetto’s Clean Energy Operating Platform, this is a comprehensive suite of tools and services enabling installers to streamline operations, optimize performance, and increase profitability. Visit https://www.palmetto.com/
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This is your SolarWakeup for October 25th, 2023
Managing Installer Cash Flow. Interest rates are the highest in 22 years, increasing solar financing costs and softening consumer demand for loan products. Businesses are feeling the pain of strained cash flows, labor costs and profitability pressures. Palmetto, a B2B technology company accelerating the adoption of clean energy, has announced a new partnership offering for solar installers to help stabilize cash flows and grow faster in today’s market. Built on top of Palmetto’s Clean Energy Operating Platform, this is a comprehensive suite of tools and services enabling installers to streamline operations, optimize performance, and increase profitability. Visit https://www.palmetto.com/
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This is your SolarWakeup for October 24th, 2023
Content Channel. One of the interesting aspects of SolarWakeup is the daily readership looking for interesting content. So in an effort to gain new perspectives, I’d love to get your ideas on where you’re seeing interesting ideas, thoughts and advice. That way, we can leverage this digital auditorium for more content distribution. In many ways, this is the largest daily audience in the solar industry, akin to that you would see during the opening speeches of RE+.
Managing Installer Cash Flow. Interest rates are the highest in 22 years, increasing solar financing costs and softening consumer demand for loan products. Businesses are feeling the pain of strained cash flows, labor costs and profitability pressures. Palmetto, a B2B technology company accelerating the adoption of clean energy, has announced a new partnership offering for solar installers to help stabilize cash flows and grow faster in today’s market. Built on top of Palmetto’s Clean Energy Operating Platform, this is a comprehensive suite of tools and services enabling installers to streamline operations, optimize performance, and increase profitability. Visit https://www.palmetto.com/finance or contact capital@palmetto.com for more.
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This is your SolarWakeup for October 23rd, 2023
Resi’s Circularity. Interest rates rising, changes in net metering policies, and inventory within distribution is too high, those are the challenges facing installers across the Country. On the other side of the equation, interest rates and inflation are also challenging the utilities resulting in higher energy prices. Interest rates will come down but I’ve never seen electricity prices do the same which means that some advantages could come out of this for the residential market. At some point, distribution will have to move the inventory and there’s already talk of price cuts which will enable some margin retention by the installer as well. Lastly, look for innovation or as I like to call it, focusing on what you do best. This will enable everyone to partner more and drive more volume on the thing you do best.
Managing Installer Cash Flow. Interest rates are the highest in 22 years, increasing solar financing costs and softening consumer demand for loan products. Businesses are feeling the pain of strained cash flows, labor costs and profitability pressures. Palmetto, a B2B technology company accelerating the adoption of clean energy, has announced a new partnership offering for solar installers to help stabilize cash flows and grow faster in today’s market. Built on top of Palmetto’s Clean Energy Operating Platform, this is a comprehensive suite of tools and services enabling installers to streamline operations, optimize performance, and increase profitability. Visit https://www.palmetto.com/finance or contact capital@palmetto.com for more.
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This is your SolarWakeup for October 20th, 2023
Solar Is Booming. Solar is set to be the leading source by 2050 according to estimates and more solar is getting built this year than any year before.
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This is your SolarWakeup for October 19th, 2023
Managing Installer Cash Flow. Interest rates are the highest in 22 years, increasing solar financing costs and softening consumer demand for loan products. Businesses are feeling the pain of strained cash flows, labor costs and profitability pressures. Palmetto, a B2B technology company accelerating the adoption of clean energy, has announced a new partnership offering for solar installers to help stabilize cash flows and grow faster in today’s market. Built on top of Palmetto’s Clean Energy Operating Platform, this is a comprehensive suite of tools and services enabling installers to streamline operations, optimize performance, and increase profitability. Visit https://www.palmetto.com/
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This is your SolarWakeup for October 17th, 2023
Modeling Demand Increase. This won’t be the last time you hear about a utility talking about modeling charging demand from a segment. Modeling and economic growth is also impacting data centers and industrial use but ultimately the ability to electrify transportation is a problem for the grid.
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