This is your SolarWakeup for January 10th, 2017

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SEIA moves ahead. Welcome Abby Hopper as the new CEO and President of SEIA. She takes over for Tom Kimbis who has been the interim President and will return to General Counsel and Executive Vice President. Hopper led the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management and prior to that the Maryland Energy Administration. She will start next week, just a few days before Donald Trump takes the oath of office.

The States reconsider. After making some anti-solar decisions, it seems that some blowback is occurring. Arizona and Nevada are going back to look at how to alleviate some of the tension. In Nevada that means looking at reinstatement of net metering in Las Vegas service area and Arizona has to fix the grandfathering rule is recently created. In our podcast, we cover how the baby step efforts to attack solar may be getting some traction.

More nuclear policy. Sometimes I get the feeling that nuclear policy may be the way solar gets some opportunities to advance its own policy across the Country. Whether it is DOE or at the State (see IL) and now NY, solar could grab on to some of the subsidy bills that work to bailout the operators. Look at this in the same way we identified the oil embargo as an opportunity to attach the ITC. Stay tuned on this.

Opinion

Have a great day!

Yann