This is your SolarWakeup for November 4th, 2016

Net Metering Appeals. Vote Solar appealed a district court ruling in Nevada. The original lawsuit complaint asked for the reinstatement of net metering to existing customers and provide net metering to all future customers as required by Nevada law. While existing customers got NEM back, new customers did not and Vote Solar is seeking to change that. Our coverage.
Managing the pricing deterioration. As pricing deteriorates market wide, First Solar announced ways to counteract the pure pricing battle. At some point, price of the modules will be taken into consideration with land costs and efficiency of the modules. Wall Street was not comforted by the transparency and the stock traded down 15%.
The Florida saga continues. After filing for relief to the Supreme Court, solar advocates got news today. The Supreme Court will review the ballot question again. The voters are unlikely to see any action prior to Tuesday’s voting day as Floridians have been voting for over a week already.
Total eclipse of the heart. Normally, comments from the CEO of Total about solar would not raise eyebrows but Total is controlling stakeholder in SunPower one of the largest players in the US market. This time the CEO called the coming of a ‘new winter’ with the double threat of over capacity and lower demand. Global forecasts still see growing demand but his reference may be about SunPower focused markets.
The nuclear struggles are real. A 5th nuclear power plant since 2013 has been announced to be closed. This time Fort Calhoun in Nebraska which is owned by Omaha Public Power. The 5 plants have an output roughly equal to the total output of all solar power in the US which means the next iteration of solar needs to make up the difference once again.

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Have a great day!

Yann