Given my updated schedule for work and my continued desire to provide value to you on a daily basis, there will be days that I’ll write one extended paragraph instead of the multiple topics. I don’t mean to cheat you out of good content but until every single reader is a customer of Quick Mount PV (not sure why that hasn’t happened yet), I will be pounding the pavement to get you to switch. Hope you’re all on board with this message and I appreciate the understanding. For the other (one person) that thinks the content has gotten to spammy since I joined Quick Mount, thanks for playing along!
Future Of Energy Savings. If you play out the game plan and use New Mexico’s demand charge as a sample, you can see a tricky future for the ‘rate design’ 3.0 era, especially in markets where solar doesn’t gain enough strength to thwart any of these attempts. Storage is going to drop costs much like solar dropped from $2.50 to $0.75 per watt perhaps even faster. With storage becoming a standard part of solar, cheap solar, any utility costs may become an added savings to the solar install. That would leave the utilities to move from solar NEM fees and demand charges to minimum bills and increasing those to make up for the lost revenues. However, if the system is completely isolated, what would the argument be? With net metering, the argument is that the solar generator has access and is using the grid during overproduction. In non-export systems, it would simply be a lost revenue argument where the fight would be that some customers don’t have access to solar or that the grid was built for all customers and they must pay for what was built in the past. I’d love to hear your thoughts on this.
- SolarWakeup: New Mexico Commission Could Eliminate Stand-by Fees On Solar Customers
- Washington Post: New Trump power plant plan would release hundreds of millions of tons of CO2 into the air
- Utility Dive: Michigan coal closures prod small muni to go 100% renewables
- S&P Global: Xcel Energy proposes replacing Colo. steel mill’s coal-fired power with solar
- Think Progress: Trump reveals how little he knows about his coal and nuclear bailout plan
- Renewable Energy World: Coal Subsidy, Solar Project Tangled in Case Before Ohio Supreme Court
- Solar Builder: Sunnova to start selling solar services in Illinois
- Electric: Tesla starts expanding its massive solar array at Gigafactory 1
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Yann