Happy Passover to all getting together for some family gathering, this is the thanksgiving for jewish families filled with plenty of loud cross talk. Happy Easter to all of you as well, enjoy those golden goose eggs. Have a great weekend.
Compete On Price. BNEF’s newest report should go on every State Legislator’s desk. I don’t know how many there are but assuming 7,500 legislators, printing and mailing costs, that would be a $75,000 expenditure that could yield some interesting feedback. Renewables are cheaper, the goal we were told would get solar into the game. In Florida, regulators now go with the more expensive version of solar but that’s an argument for another day.
The Market Trump Ignores. In all of this trade talk, when has the silicon manufacturing been mentioned? It was forgotten during 201 and it doesn’t come up now. These are billion dollar plants that are sitting idle because the product is being lost in the trade war. Time to get Hemlock and REC onto a pedestal and get them to scream a bit louder.
EPA Lunacy. First class flights, soundproof booths, forgetting the word climate change are all minor compared to the regs that have been pushed aside by Pruitt. Now that it has come out that Pruitt is renting an apartment from a lobbyist, I wonder if you can smell the swamp as well.
Let’s Meet. Couple of events planned. SolarWakeup Live! in San Francisco on April 10th, on the 13th I’ll be at the TomTom Festival in Charlottesville moderating a panel on solar financing and I’ll be interviewing Greg Ridderbusch CEO of Connexus Energy at the Midwest Solar Expo on May 2nd. I always enjoy meeting you in person, come on out.
- Think Progress: Stunning drops in solar, wind costs mean economic case for coal, gas is ‘crumbling’
- Greentech Media: Struggling US Polysilicon Producers Are a Forgotten Casualty in the Solar Trade War With China
- Huffington Post: Leaked Memo – EPA Shows Workers How To Downplay Climate Change
- CleanTechnica: Rio Tinto Sells Last Coal Mine, Has Now Completely Exited Coal
- SolarWakeup: Could We Finally Be Rid Of Suniva?
- PV-Tech: Review and analysis of solar manufacturing capacity expansion plans in 2017
- GreenBiz: What’s behind the California bill to ban internal combustion car sales by 2040
- Times Union: Community solar farms growing statewide
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Have a great day!
Yann