Happy Cinco de Mayo and have a great weekend!
A new mile high podcast. We continue the conversation with State SEIA chapters, this time with Rebecca Cantwell from COSEIA. Colorado has been in the news recently with a settlement that took nearly a year and got Colorado back on the right track to get back into the Top 10 solar States. One thing that is glaringly obvious is the need for more funding. COSEIA makes most of its money from its great conference but even after that revenue it is less than $300 thousand per year to run the entire association. Compared to the millions spent by utilities, how can COSEIA compete? As an industry, we must figure out a way to arm our advocates with more. Just look at Florida’s victory from yesterday. The press release came from Vote Solar and SEIA, not from the State level chapter.
Ivanka’s influence. The President’s daughter will be heading to the EPA and meeting with Scott Pruitt to discuss the Paris agreement. I don’t really have any commentary, just summarizing the article.
Are you offering storage for your solar projects in California? I want to hear from you. In the near future, I will be doing a learning tour and meeting with contractors and developers throughout California working in and around energy storage.
Power to the people. The era of big energy storage costs are over but we cannot go back to letting utilities add fixed fees to the bills. SGIP in California is going to drive the volume of storage up and bring a new pipeline of storage deals to the market. Who is financing this? Is it all cash? PACE? SGIP levels will decline and possible run through funds relatively fast, less than a year perhaps.
Make sure you listen to the latest episodes of EnergyWakeup. Listen to the importance of State level solar policy from Rebecca Cantwell, the executive director of COSEIA. And hear from solar entrepreneur, John Gurski, the founder of Energy Toolbase, a cloud based analytics and proposal tool.
- SolarWakeup: Interview with Colorado SEIA Director, Rebecca Cantwell, on how to settle with Xcel
- The Hill: Overnight Energy – Ivanka Trump to meet EPA chief on Paris decision
- PV-Magazine: SGIP Step 1 (mostly) sells out in 24 hours
- PV-Tech: China installed 7.21GW of solar in Q1 2017, curtailment issues remain
- Utility Dive: Green designs – Corporate demand pushes new generation of utility green tariffs
- Renewable Energy World: Solar Jobs – State of the States
- Solar Industry: EIA Charts Utility-Scale Solar’s ‘Rapid’ Five-Year Growth
- Motley Fool: First Solar Sees a Bright Future as Solar Demand Picks Up
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Have a great day!
Yann