This is your SolarWakeup for June 22nd, 2018

What a great day at SolarWakeup Live! in Chicago yesterday. The interviews were great content and more than anything the audience was able to spend plenty of time doing solid networking. Have a great weekend!

Community Solar Goes Big. This isn’t data but its anecdotal from the event. Community solar in Illinois may have over 1GW of projects already in the queue but it may not add up with local zoning approvals so the 1GW could be overstating. That’s quite a bit more than the 150MW expected to be approved in the program.

Program Administrators. No word on the hiring date for the administrators but the RFP responses have been received and selection is underway. This is essentially the last step to get the program going.

Large Scale Issues. If you see a future for large scale solar in Illinois with $5 RECs, please send me your business model to understand.

Hire Local.I can’t overstate how important it is to understand the impact of hiring local labor and train a new workforce for your installations. Don’t be the solar group that hires the random Spencer’s solar company at the lowest cost possible. Make sure you give the newly trained solar folks a chance to get involved. This is vital to growing the solar market in Illinois going forward.

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Have a great day!

Yann