This is your SolarWakeup for March 27th, 2024
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1d ago
PV-Magazine: 1100 GW solar and 1000 GW storage now await transmission interconnection Solar Power World: Sunnova to offer solar + storage services at Home Depots across the US Axios: Biden’s “hush-hush” oil boom Utility Dive: Sonnen CEO aims to repeat company’s Utah virtual power plant success Bloomberg: China Grid Giants Seek Solutions for a System Flooded With Solar Reuters: Europe’s clean power sources on a record roll in early 2024 Energy Storage News: Texas BESS reliability issue is ‘not over’ for ERCOT despite NPRR 1186 state-of-charge rule rebuff Opinion Renew Economy: “No excuses ..read more
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This is your SolarWakeup for March 26th, 2024
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2d ago
Bloomberg: Hawaii Faces Lengthy Blackout Risk Amid Power-Plant Outages Reuters: Maxeon Solar files patent infringement lawsuit against Canadian Solar Heatmap: Biden’s Big Bet on Aluminum New York Times: Germany’s Solar Panel Industry, Once a Leader, Is Getting Squeezed Utility Dive: ISO/RTO Council urges FERC to nix NERC’s proposed cold weather reliability standard Renewable Energy World: REC Silicon delays restarting Moses Lake polysilicon plant Energy Storage News: ARENA funds microgrid trials for sodium-sulfur, zinc-bromine LDES tech in Western Australia PV-Magazine: DOE releases funds to ..read more
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This is your SolarWakeup for March 25th, 2024
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3d ago
Slower, Faster Or As Expected. Every headline these days is about energy demand, even old statements are recirculating the internet. On a personal level, I am not sure that we are going to be meeting the moment. There is no doubt that power plants are reaching the end of their 3rd or 4th lives, coal plants from the 60s and 70s are still operating. Plants will have to retire and many of them will repower if the economic case can be made for it. That leaves a big hole in the generation side which we absolutely need to make up with all of the solar and wind that can get built. This ..read more
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This is your SolarWakeup for March 21st, 2023
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1w ago
Utility Dive: Electrifying US trucking could cost nearly $1 trillion – Study Axios: Tensions between phaseout advocates and oil titans on display in Houston PV-Magazine: Booming U.S. energy storage installation grows 90% year-over-year New York Times: Biden’s Climate Law Has Created a Growing Market for Green Tax Credits Bloomberg: KKR, EIG to Invest $1 Billion in Solar Developer and Projects Reuters: Germany looks at special account for $488 billion power grid expansion PV-Tech: Chinese companies supplied half of US PV modules in 2023 Opinion Heatmap News: Why Moving to 24/7 Clean Electric ..read more
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This is your SolarWakeup for March 20th, 2023
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1w ago
New York Times: Biden’s Climate Law Has Created a Growing Market for Green Tax Credits Utility Dive: New England could see resource adequacy troubles even with billions in investments: ISO-NE Bloomberg: UAE’s Masdar to Buy 50% Stake in US Renewables Firm Terra-Gen Axios: Gas execs sees tailwinds from AI power needs Reuters: Equinor spends $6 billion a year to keep Norway oil, gas steady, CEO says Energy Storage News: Bulgaria gets tenders for 350MW of energy storage alongside 1,425MW renewables launched Canary Media: Data centers, bitcoin and EVs send utilities scrambling for more power Opin ..read more
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This is your SolarWakeup for March 19th, 2023
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1w ago
Reconciling The Obvious. It’s too early to say that we have a problem, but it’s too late to ignore the problem as much as we are. Largely due to two factors, operators, regulators and politicians are not up in arms about the fact that our energy use will be far larger than our energy generation in a much small time frame than expected. First, we’ve never really faced this problem before. Energy consumption went up at the rate of economic growth and in a very predictable fashion. Mornings and nights at home and day time at the office while everyone filled up their cars at the gas station ..read more
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This is your SolarWakeup for March 18th, 2023
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1w ago
Cheap Solar Panels, Winners and Losers. It’s always been the dilemma, cheap solar panels from Asia hurt the domestic manufacturing build out. On the other hand, imagine the lowest scenario, if solar panels were free then consumers and tax payers would benefit from cheaper PPAs (energy cost) and value of tax credits. I don’t know the right answer but the same is true for anything we import really. Imagine Amazon.com only selling domestically manufactured goods or Walmart. Nobody is saying all solar panels should be made here, I would welcome that, but there’s also an economic upside to it ..read more
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This is your SolarWakeup for March 14th, 2023
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1w ago
Sea Of Suits. If there is one legacy left behind from the solar industry, it’s the 3,500 navy blue suits that come together at the Infocast Solar + Wind (And Storage) Conference in Phoenix. For the veterans, this is the old Rancho Bernardo conference. It was great to catch up with so many of you that I haven’t had the pleasure of seeing in so long. It’s incredible that our industry drives this level of collaboration and investment, representing the $50billion market that we all created in 2023 and will continue to grow. Utility Dive: US electricity prices outpace annual inflation Politic ..read more
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This is your SolarWakeup for March 13th, 2023
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2w ago
Utility Dive: Storage was solar’s co-star in 2023, a record-breaking year for both – American Clean Power Axios: U.S. widens its lead in fossil fuel production Reuters: Excelsior Energy sells solar assets from inaugural fund to BlackRock Bloomberg: Puerto Rico Power Authority’s Planned ‘Turbo’ Bonds Seen as Blueprint for Utilities PV-Magazine: A look at the great transformer shortage affecting U.S. utilities Renewable Energy World: White House – Good-paying clean energy jobs are on the rise PV-Tech: BrightNight and ACEN to develop 1GWac renewables portfolio in the Philippines Solar Power Worl ..read more
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This is your SolarWakeup for March 11th, 2023
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2w ago
Politics And Pursuit Of None. I agree with Invenergy’s founder, Michael Polsky, that renewable energy would be better off without politics but the same could be said about most industries. Energy on the other hand is one of the most regulated industries because they are monopolies for most Americans and the trillions of dollars that exchange hands. So let’s agree that the energy markets will never exist without politics. Then agree on the next reality that is that in order to survive, grow and thrive, renewable energy markets need to win the politics of every moment. Not enough CEOs in ou ..read more
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