Enjoy your weekend ahead. Don’t forget to vote for your favorite location for the first SolarWakeup Live!, today is the last day to vote.
The Grid Study Is Here. After months and a leaked draft report, the DOE’s study on the value of baseload power is here. I have gone through the first few chapters and read a lot about the need for resilience and that price cannot be viewed in a silo without valuing resilience. Basically the report talks a lot about the need for baseload power which I read that solar is cheaper but without resilience it’s worthless. I’ll be studying this in greater detail and plan on having some experts on next week’s podcast.
A Few Comments On Editing. I know Secretary Perry isn’t a nuclear physicist nor a nobel prize winner but the letter from any Secretary of Energy should have a bare minimum of professionalism. First, don’t copy and paste the Department’s logo without a transparent background and make sure to crops the borders of the logo with a bit of symmetry. Lastly, the first thing my kids are taught in kindergarten is how to write their name. Capital letters first and lower case following, I don’t understand what Rick PeRRy is thinking. Will one of our SunShot friends please email the Secretary’s office a digital letterhead. Please.
California Goes To Rush Hour. The solar trade groups simultaneously slammed the CPUC decision to move the peak times to 4pm to 9pm with an early grandfather deadline. I admit that I am not used to things in California going against the solar agenda. More to come on this, I am sure.
- Rocky Mountain Institute: Changes in the Power Sector Are an Opportunity, Not a Threat
- DOE: DOWNLOAD – Staff Report to the Secretary on Electricity Markets and Reliability
- Solar Industry: Solar Groups Denounce California Regulator’s Rate Case Decision
- PV-Magazine: Sunrun to provide solar to Comcast customers
- Business Journals: What does Duke Energy plan for its Lee nuclear plant now that V.C. Summer has failed?
- Renewable Energy World: RGGI States Propose Additional 30 Percent Emissions Cap Decline by 2030
- PV-Tech: Tata Power Solar profit triples citing shift from manufacturing to EPC
- Utility Dive: APS rate case, political funding fight spills into Arizona Supreme Court
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Have a great day!
Yann