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This is your SolarWakeup for June 30th

Partisan Agencies. In yesterday’s SCOTUS opinion re. Slaughter, the executive branch, i.e. the President, got the right (it seems) to fire commissioners of the FTC (or FERC) at their discretion. Any attempt by Congress seems to be seen by this Court as an unlawful infringement on presidential powers. The future seems to be one where a party wins the White House and then goes on to fire Commissioners across the agencies and then duke it out with the Senate as necessary to put in place their preferred people. Maybe the TVA is in play too? 

More Chargers Please. Uber drivers love driving EVs but hate the lack of charging, interesting how the last few years have progressed in the electrification of miles driven. Can EV infrastructure become a profitable business? 

The ITC Thoughts. Well this topic woke you up and your thoughts came in. If you missed yesterday’s SolarWakeup go back and add your opinion on the ITC. Note for those asking my opinion, I disagree with about 98% of the emails I got so far. 

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This is your SolarWakeup for June 29th

Last Week To Safe Harbor. But I want to talk about the ITC because DC is talking about it. A few weeks ago E&E News talked to some solar executives and asked whether the tax credit should be extended. Everyone here knows how I feel, and I want to know your thoughts, so please hit reply and tell me I’m crazy or why it should or should not be extended. I get the argument, every time we fight, there’s a cliff and we’ve promised to get off the credits. But also, we need and want the investors to have confidence that the solar industry can thrive without it, which we can. The end result is that off take agreements will be higher without the ITC and that causes inflation to consumers which sucks and could be the argument for it. Here’s what Senator Brian Schatz has to say, “As long as I’ve been around, [renewable developers] have been negotiating against themselves, and so I’m not going to let them do that.”

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Best, Yann

This is your SolarWakeup for June 24th

Who’s Against Clean. That’s Tim Pawlenty’s opening message to the mainstream media as the new CEO of SEIA. A decade ago when Abby Hopper started at SEIA, SolarWakeup was one of the first interviews in what at the time was a rather divided solar industry. Today’s messaging is more mainstream and it’s a great result of the work that the industry has done over the last 10 years. We’re big, profitable, important and affordable. Are there divides amongst opinions inside the sector? Sure, but what got us here isn’t what is going to get us there. Who’s against solar? That’s our next decade to scale and execute on. 

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Best, Yann

This is your SolarWakeup for June 22nd

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