That didn’t take long. Just yesterday I made the case for picking up our fight for solar policy. Later that day, solar policy groups took a big loss in Arizona and are calling it a win. When it comes to policy or market dynamics, the test is whether or not the policy allows the market to grow going forward. If it fails the test, if it fails to allow more customers to exercise their choice to add solar, then the policy change is a loss. If, and I expect this to be the case, the solar industry saw no way to win any forward progress, a likely outcome in Arizona, and the deal on the table saved existing solar customers by grandfathering them for 20 years, then take the loss, give up and say the truth why you made the deal. The language outlining the deal was clearly agreed upon because all three press releases I saw had the same crappy language. It’s a loss folks, and that is unfortunate. We should fight with our greatest assets, our supporters by filling halls and streets with signs. Make it political. We lost against a company that is under grand jury investigation.
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A bull distracted by bright red colors. The headlines are never ending in Washington DC and when you get large cuts to the State Department, most of us are ignoring whatever is happening to DOE or EPA. We call it moving the goal posts because once State dollars come back, you feel like you’ve won and the environmental and energy lobby has lost. Heritage and Koch brothers are laser focused on executing their plant to undo everything possible when it comes to our industry.
New headline, old news. Reuters has the news from a filing about the 20% cut to the workforce at SolarCity. I can only presume that some was due to slowdown in markets like Arizona and Nevada and some from redundancies in the merger. The company still has 12,000 employees which isn’t a small number. Read the article and I don’t see more than that, but I could be wrong.
- PV-Magazine: APS settles rate-case dispute with solar industry
- Vox: The Heritage Foundation has a plan for gutting EPA and the Energy Department. It’s eerily plausible.
- Reuters: Tesla’s SolarCity cut 20 percent of staff in 2016
- US News: Bill to Regulate Solar Power Put on Hold by Sponsor
- Utility Dive: Indiana Senate votes to end retail rate net metering
- PV-Tech: Japan to lower tariffs, cancel projects after paying ¥2.3tr last year for FiTs
- EDF: 4 Signs Texas Could Lead the Clean Energy Economy – But Will It?
- Business Insider: ‘About war-fighting capability’- US military marches with green energy, despite Trump
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Have a great day!
Yann