I’m in doubt as well. Dow spent what I could only imagine is well over $100 million to develop Powerhouse, solar shingles. It had distribution channel into the roofing industry and yet, couldn’t make it work. Probably the largest residential roofing manufacturer, GAF, shows a roof integrated solar system called Decotech on its website but also doesn’t have a shingle product. I’m not counting Elon out but gigafactory, solar factory, model 3, SolarCity, SpaceX…solar tiles can’t be too high on the priority list.
Ever wonder why Tallahassee is Florida’s capital? Because nobody goes there during legislative session! A $700 flight or 7 hour drive from South Florida but it’s much easier to reach if you have a corporate utility jet. Floridians overwhelmingly voted for property tax exemptions for solar projects and Florida has this insane process. Constitutional amendments go to the ballot, require a 60% affirmative vote before heading to the legislature for implementation. The legislature then has to pass a bill around the amendment which can get hijacked as it is happening now. FPL, their lobbyists and the legislators are adding a bunch of crap (that wasn’t in the amendment) to the bill that are bad for solar. In Tallahassee, it is all about free markets, except for their votes on monopolies, those aren’t free…
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Bring back solar. We spoke with Assemblyman Brooks on EnergyWakeup a few weeks ago about his bill to increase the RPS in Nevada. There have now been more solar bills filed around community solar and net metering. There isn’t a super majority in the Assembly and the Governor is a Republican so let’s see how the negotiations go, maybe time to check in on the Governor’s text messages again to see what NV Energy may be thinking?
- Business Insider: CEO of a major solar company said he’s ‘skeptical’ Tesla can pull off the solar roof
- Miami Herald: Critics say bill to authorize tax breaks is now a vehicle for solar barriers
- Renewable Energy World: Nevada Poised to Go Big on Clean Energy
- PV-Tech: Canadian Solar placing major bet on next-gen p-type multi cell technology
- Grist: The EPA is still cleaning up brownfields. So that’s something.
- GreenBiz: A week inside Al Gore’s climate reality
- PV-Magazine: BREAKING – Minnesota governor vetoes bill to exempt co-ops from regulation
- New York Times: Trump Lays Plans to Reverse Obama’s Climate Change Legacy
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Have a great day!
Yann