This is your SolarWakeup for May 25th, 2022
CommonBond Publishes Innovative Lending Platform. When it comes to selling solar and doing it right, being fast and accurate is key. That is why the CommonBond lending platform is changing the way residential solar installers go to market. Get in touch with the team to learn about their innovative process and see their dealer incentives. Check it out here or click the header image above.
News
1 E&E News:
‘More, more, more’ - Biden’s clean grid hinges on power lines
2 Bloomberg:
America Has a Solar Red-Tape Nightmare. Here’s How to Fix It
3 Utility Dive:
Duke Energy, North Carolina solar installers reach agreement on net metering case
4 Axios:
Industry heavy weights unite in U.S. battery push
5 New York Times:
Energy-environment - solar panels installation
6 RMI:
Running the Numbers
7 Energy Storage News:
California regulator CPUC approves utility SCE’s fast-tracked 500MW BESS projects
8 Canary Media:
Arcadia buys Urjanet to tap its global and commercial energy data
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Yann
This is your SolarWakeup for May 24th, 2022
CommonBond Publishes Innovative Lending Platform. When it comes to selling solar and doing it right, being fast and accurate is key. That is why the CommonBond lending platform is changing the way residential solar installers go to market. Get in touch with the team to learn about their innovative process and see their dealer incentives. Check it out here or click the header image above.
News
1 Bloomberg:
Investor John Doerr - Silicon Valley Should 'Triple Down' on Clean Tech
2 Axios:
U.S. playing catch-up on electric vehicles
3 PV-Tech:
Kiwa adds to solar testing, inspection capabilities with PI Berlin acquisition
4 Energy Storage Nes:
German utility scale value stack reshaped as market moves to larger projects
5 Canary Media:
EV-charging microgrids are worth more than the sum of their parts. Here’s why
6 PV-Magazine:
TVA completes 150 MW solar project for Meta
Opinions:
7 GreenBiz:
Can Elon Musk save ESG?
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Yann
This is your SolarWakeup for May 23rd, 2022
CommonBond Now At OpenSolar. Today’s solar market is as competitive and challenging as ever but with CommonBond you can make sure getting your customers through the financing process quickly is not something you need to worry about. Now integrated with OpenSolar, you get direct connection from the fastest platform in solar financing to the leading proposal platform. Check it out here or click the header image above.
News
1 Bloomberg:
A Hot, Deadly Summer Is Coming With Frequent Blackouts
2 Utility Dive:
FERC to monitor gas, power markets for manipulation as forward summer electricity prices jump up to 233%
3 Wall Street Journal:
Biden’s Solar Tariff Brawl
4 Axios:
Extreme weather plagues U.S., from Colorado snowstorm to East Coast heat
5 Reuters:
Analysis - In sharp switch, Australia votes for climate action
6 PV-Magazine:
Solar jobs - 80,000 trained in the last three decades, over the next three years… double that
7 PV-Tech:
Huawei and SolarEdge settle pending lawsuits, sign patent licence agreement
8 Solar Power World:
Generac offering low-cost, long-term lease program for new batteries paired with solar in Connecticut
9 Energy Storage News:
Enphase Energy - ‘Good availability of products’ despite high demand
Opinions:
10 Canary Media:
Chart - Which 12 US cities outshine the rest in solar energy?
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Yann
This is your SolarWakeup for May 19th, 2022
CommonBond Now At OpenSolar. Today’s solar market is as competitive and challenging as ever but with CommonBond you can make sure getting your customers through the financing process quickly is not something you need to worry about. Now integrated with OpenSolar, you get direct connection from the fastest platform in solar financing to the leading proposal platform. Check it out here or click the header image above.
News
1 PV-Magazine:
Secretary of Commerce may have underrepresented history of solar tariff rates before Senate
2 Canary Media:
BNEF says Auxin misinterpreted its research in calling for solar tariffs
3 Utility Dive:
FERC’s Glick says he’s ‘bullish’ on energy storage, aims to prioritize regulations for hybrid projects
4 Axios:
EVs are shoving aside real volumes of oil
5 Reuters:
Severe drought could pose problems for US power grid this summer -NERC
6 PV-Tech:
UN sets out five actions to jumpstart renewable energy transition
7 Energy Storage News:
Energy storage makes ‘deep decarbonisation affordable’, finds three-year MIT study
Opinions:
8 CNBC:
It’s now cheaper to switch from coal to renewables instead of coal to gas, report shows
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Yann
This is your SolarWakeup for May 18th, 2022
CommonBond Now At OpenSolar. Today’s solar market is as competitive and challenging as ever but with CommonBond you can make sure getting your customers through the financing process quickly is not something you need to worry about. Now integrated with OpenSolar, you get direct connection from the fastest platform in solar financing to the leading proposal platform. Check it out here or click the header image above.
News
1 PV-Tech:
US governors pressure Biden, Raimondo to expedite solar AD/CVD review
2 utility Dive:
California governor floats 5-GW, $5.2B 'reliability reserve' amid possible electricity shortfalls
3 Canary Media:
Electric heavy-duty trucks are hitting the roads in California and beyond
4 PV-Magazine:
Solar O&M - Why a long-term maintenance plan is essential
5 Energy Storage News:
Up to 5.9GW of battery storage in Duke Energy carbon reduction plan for Carolinas
6 Reuters:
EU to map out escape route from Russian fossil fuels
7 Axios:
The global impact of local carbon cuts
Opinions:
8 Bloomberg:
EU Green Tech Needs Cash on Fossil-Fuel Scale, Gates Group Says
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Yann
This is your SolarWakeup for May 17th, 2022
CommonBond Now At OpenSolar. Today’s solar market is as competitive and challenging as ever but with CommonBond you can make sure getting your customers through the financing process quickly is not something you need to worry about. Now integrated with OpenSolar, you get direct connection from the fastest platform in solar financing to the leading proposal platform. Check it out here or click the header image above.
News
1 Utility Dive:
After calls for conservation and generator failures, Texas’ grid survived the weekend. It’s still May.
2 Bloomberg:
US Deepens China Solar Tariff Probe With Scrutiny of 8 Firms
3 E&E News:
PURPA fight could sway solar’s future in Ga.
4 Axios:
New Mexico Calf Canyon Fire becomes largest in state history
5 Solar Builder:
Fifth Third, PowerPay and CommonBond expand their home solar loan programs
6 Energy Storage News:
Batteries are number one at maintaining Australia’s grid frequency
7 PV-Magazine:
California solar policy misaligned with clean air board’s rooftop priority
8 Renew Economy:
“We must wean ourselves off fossil fuels
Opinions:
9 GreenBiz:
Can Engine No.1 lead Wall Street to ‘beyond investment as usual’?
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Yann
This is your SolarWakeup for May 16th, 2022
CommonBond Now At OpenSolar. Today’s solar market is as competitive and challenging as ever but with CommonBond you can make sure getting your customers through the financing process quickly is not something you need to worry about. Now integrated with OpenSolar, you get direct connection from the fastest platform in solar financing to the leading proposal platform. Check it out here or click the header image above.
News
1 Utility Dive:
Power prices jumped 51% in PJM, 85% in New England in Q1 due to rising gas prices
2 Bloomberg:
How Climate Is Splintering Australia’s Political Parties
3 Axios:
Exclusive - 21 federal agencies monitoring Ukraine war's environmental toll
4 RMI:
A Fair Green Deal for the Last Coal Plant in Mississippi
5 Energy Storage News:
Flow battery player ESS Inc has ‘strong confidence’ in 2022 performance despite ‘unanticipated challenges’ in Q1
6 Canary Media:
EVs can be cheaper on a monthly basis than gas-powered cars
7 PV-Magazine:
Climate, the Texas grid, and solar + batteries to the rescue
8 Texas Tribune:
Texans asked to limit electricity use after six power plants go down ahead of a hot weekend
Opinions:
9 New York Times:
We Can’t Drill Our Way to Energy Security
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Yann
This is your SolarWakeup for May 13th, 2022
It’s Here! Now You Can Sell an Install-Ready PV Design from Day 1 with TrueDesign™. Picture this: You're meeting with a homeowner about going solar. Five minutes in, you've auto-generated an install-ready system design based on highly accurate property measurements and verified shade data—without any design or back-office support. The homeowner signs a contract, and you send your planning team pre-built CAD files with recommended panel placement and all the data sets they need for permitting. With EagleView TrueDesign™, bridge the gap between sales-ready and install-ready designs, reducing soft costs and shortening your project cycles by 2 weeks. You'll never sell solar the same way again. Watch this video
News
1 PV-Magazine:
Secretary of Commerce may have underrepresented history of solar tariff rates before Senate
2 Reuters:
EU readies 195 billion euro plan to quit Russian fossil fuels
3 Utility Dive:
PJM releases road map for creating ‘grid of the future’ to handle coming renewables, storage wave
4 Canary Media:
EVs can be cheaper on a monthly basis than gas-powered cars
5 Renewables Now:
Digital Realty to source 158 MW of solar in California, Georgia
6 Axios:
Southwest "megadrought" leads to wildfires and new homicide evidence
7 PV-Tech:
CleanCapital secures US$200m credit facility for US solar, storage pipeline
Opinions:
8 RMI:
Clean Energy 101 - Electric Trucks
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Yann
This is your SolarWakeup for May 12th, 2022
The wait is over! Reduce Soft Costs and Shorten Cycle Times by 2 Weeks with TrueDesign™. EagleView is changing the way you sell and plan solar. EagleView's TrueDesign™ allows solar installers to auto-generate final, install-ready PV designs based on the most trustworthy data available—throughout the solar contracting process. That means fewer change orders and cancellations, lower soft costs, and better profit margins at every stage of the process. Learn more.
News
1 Bloomberg:
Social Capital-Backed Startup Scales Residential Solar
2 Reuters:
U.S. Commerce secretary says she can't influence solar tariff probe
3 Canary Media:
Schneider buys AutoGrid to tap huge potential of distributed energy resources
4 Axios:
The storm clouds over a bright renewables landscape
5 Utility Dive:
DOE plans to buy capacity on proposed power lines in first step for $2.5B transmission funding program
6 PV-Tech:
FTC Solar withdraws 2022 guidance citing ‘increasingly uncertain’ AD/CVD situation
7 PV-Magazine:
Flint Hills Resources to build 45 MW solar project to directly power its refinery
Opinions:
8 Energy Storage News:
European decarbonisation and fuel independence from Russia ‘impossible without energy storage’
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Yann
This is your SolarWakeup for May 11th, 2022
It’s Here! Now You Can Sell an Install-Ready PV Design from Day 1 with TrueDesign™. Picture this: You're meeting with a homeowner about going solar. Five minutes in, you've auto-generated an install-ready system design based on highly accurate property measurements and verified shade data—without any design or back-office support. The homeowner signs a contract, and you send your planning team pre-built CAD files with recommended panel placement and all the data sets they need for permitting. With EagleView TrueDesign™, bridge the gap between sales-ready and install-ready designs, reducing soft costs and shortening your project cycles by 2 weeks. You'll never sell solar the same way again. Watch this video
News
1 Axios:
Biden launches new transmission push
2 Energy Storage News:
Tesla maintains 2030 target of 1,500GWh annual energy storage deployment
3 Wall Street Journal:
Climate-Data Startup Arcadia Raises $200 Million
4 Canary Media:
How California can get to a reliable, 85% clean grid by 2030
5 PV-Magazine:
California NEM 3.0 revisited, Commission seeks industry feedback
6 Reuters:
Solar rooftops, manufacturing to get boost under draft EU plan
7 PV-Tech:
EU planning one-year renewable permits in ‘go-to areas’ as it steps up transition planning
Opinions:
8 New York Times:
How shareholders are pushing big banks for climate action
Have a great day!
Yann
