Headed To SPI. Here’s to day 1 in Anaheim for SPI 2018. At SolarWakeup we won’t bore you with the stream of press releases but we’ll look for the storylines that matter to your business. If you have any tips or info that should see the light of day, you can always hit reply on this email and send it over. Enjoy the show and we’ll be talking throughout the week. This is a good time to tell your industry friends that they should be subscribed to SolarWakeup as well. We are about to graduate from an auditorium filled with people to an arena and that’s a great place for solar to be headed. On Friday, SolarWakeup celebrates its 6th birthday, so we look forward to celebrating that with you.
The SolarAPP Permit. Later today at SPI, SEIA, The Solar Foundation and others will be working on the SolarAPP, the ’instant’ permit process that could open many doors for your installation business. Imagine only having to wait a few days from the contract signing to start the project, that’s a future we should all look forward to. I am excited to see how the process will play out and if you have ideas on the implementation of this, send them this way.
Resiliency In Solar. Bringing this back to the top because the post-hurricane Florence solar results are coming in. Solar did incredibly well which speaks to the engineering standards of the solar construction space and how we work with the code writers to do what is best.
Midwest Solar Utilities. First Indiana and over the weekend Kentucky and Ohio also came out with strong solar moves from the utilities. We’ve more news out of coal utilities in the past few months than before and this trend is sticking around in my opinion. Let’s keep watching this space.
Fixing Friday. I wrote that AEP was working on helping Indiana move in the right direction but was wrong about the utilities. It is NIPSCO and not AEP. AEP filed similar plans in Ohio. My apologies.
- SolarWakeup: Solar Survives Hurricane Florence’s Wrath With Little Effect
- Daily Energy Insider: Kentucky utilities to propose Green Energy tariff to drive renewable energy growth
- Greentech Media: Con Ed Acquires 981 Megawatts From Sempra’s Renewables Business
- Think Progress: Electric car batteries’ ‘second life’ could be a clean energy game-changer
- Renew Economy: Revealed – True cost of Tesla big battery, and its government contract
- PV-Magazine: SunCast – Andrea Luecke and John Berger on the 1-year anniversary of Hurricane Maria
- Utility Dive: Bipartisan senators ask Treasury Secretary to expand storage tax credit eligibility
- New York Times: On the Attack Against Climate Change
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Have a great day!
Yann