Recapping the crossed chasm. Obama released cabinet exit memos yesterday including the one from the Secretary of Energy. Moniz highlights the market leap in solar over the past 8 years under the Obama administration. I’d add that the Bush admin gets some credit for signing the original 30% ITC into law a decade ago. Now let’s push Perry to let the markets thrive. Let all energy compete like in ERCOT.
It wasn’t a secret. I guess we need to send the next EnergyWakeup podcast to Bloomberg because it wasn’t a secret to anyone that listened who Thomas Pyle was. The associations he leads are a front for the free market, read anti-solar, dreams of some in the coal and gas sectors. DC works in weird ways, often associations have the insight pathway to influence the right offices and staffers.
Good news for climate ratings. Bill Nye is getting his own climate change show similar to Years of Living Dangerously on Netflix. This means that the second season of Years is doing really well in the ratings with the demographics that are attractive to Netflix. If climate documentaries are driving viewers to the networks, expect more of them which is a welcome sight for this writer.
- Recharge News: Outgoing US energy secretary lauds Obama era solar boom
- Bloomberg: Meet the Obscure Group Influencing Trump’s Energy Policy
- Yahoo: Bill Nye’s New Netflix Series Will Fight Science Deniers With Facts
- New York Times: China Aims to Spend at Least $360 Billion on Renewable Energy by 2020
- Rocky Mountain Institute: Top 13 Clean Energy Developments of 2016
- Grist: U.S. likely to become a major energy exporter in a decade
- Utility Dive: Michigan energy law provokes uncertainty for solar industry
- Arizona Daily Star: Arizona Corporation Commission urged to fix solar net metering ‘grandfathering’ issue
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Have a great day!
Yann