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. 

• PV-Tech: US governors pressure Biden, Raimondo to expedite solar AD/CVD review
• utility Dive: California governor floats 5-GW, $5.2B ‘reliability reserve’ amid possible electricity shortfalls
• Canary Media: Electric heavy-duty trucks are hitting the roads in California and beyond
• PV-Magazine: Solar O&M – Why a long-term maintenance plan is essential
• Energy Storage News: Up to 5.9GW of battery storage in Duke Energy carbon reduction plan for Carolinas
• Reuters: EU to map out escape route from Russian fossil fuels
• Axios: The global impact of local carbon cuts

Opinion

• Bloomberg: EU Green Tech Needs Cash on Fossil-Fuel Scale, Gates Group Says

Best, Yann

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. 

• Utility Dive: After calls for conservation and generator failures, Texas’ grid survived the weekend. It’s still May.
• Bloomberg: US Deepens China Solar Tariff Probe With Scrutiny of 8 Firms
• E&E News: PURPA fight could sway solar’s future in Ga.
• Axios: New Mexico Calf Canyon Fire becomes largest in state history
• Solar Builder: Fifth Third, PowerPay and CommonBond expand their home solar loan programs
• Energy Storage News: Batteries are number one at maintaining Australia’s grid frequency
• PV-Magazine: California solar policy misaligned with clean air board’s rooftop priority
• Renew Economy: “We must wean ourselves off fossil fuels:” New Zealand launches “landmark” climate plan

Opinion

• GreenBiz: Can Engine No.1 lead Wall Street to ‘beyond investment as usual’?

Best, Yann

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. 

• Utility Dive: Power prices jumped 51% in PJM, 85% in New England in Q1 due to rising gas prices
• Bloomberg: How Climate Is Splintering Australia’s Political Parties
• Axios: Exclusive – 21 federal agencies monitoring Ukraine war’s environmental toll
• RMI: A Fair Green Deal for the Last Coal Plant in Mississippi
• Energy Storage News: Flow battery player ESS Inc has ‘strong confidence’ in 2022 performance despite ‘unanticipated challenges’ in Q1
• Canary Media: EVs can be cheaper on a monthly basis than gas-powered cars
• PV-Magazine: Climate, the Texas grid, and solar + batteries to the rescue
• Texas Tribune: Texans asked to limit electricity use after six power plants go down ahead of a hot weekend

Opinion

• New York Times: We Can’t Drill Our Way to Energy Security

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• PV-Magazine: Secretary of Commerce may have underrepresented history of solar tariff rates before Senate
• Reuters: EU readies 195 billion euro plan to quit Russian fossil fuels
• Utility Dive: PJM releases road map for creating ‘grid of the future’ to handle coming renewables, storage wave
• Canary Media: EVs can be cheaper on a monthly basis than gas-powered cars
• Renewables Now: Digital Realty to source 158 MW of solar in California, Georgia
• Axios: Southwest “megadrought” leads to wildfires and new homicide evidence
• PV-Tech: CleanCapital secures US$200m credit facility for US solar, storage pipeline

Opinion

• RMI: Clean Energy 101 – Electric Trucks

Best, Yann