This is your SolarWakeup for November 29th, 2018

Quick rundown today as it’s been a long week after the holidays and everyone wants their racking and mounting before the holidays. Don’t forget to check out all the fun stuff Quick Mount has to offer for your stockings this holiday season. 

More On SRA. Frank speaks with the Solar Rights Alliance’s Executive Director, Dave Rosenfeld. Check it out. 

The Future Of The CA Grid. Sunrun’s Chief Policy Officer, Anne Hoskins, a former utility regulator posts a really smart op-ed about the role distributed solar plays in the future where fires are bigger and badder. 

Big EV Infra Money. ChargePoint raises $240million and has now surpassed half a billion in funding. Some of the smartest names in solar are now at the competitor EvGo, some new interesting ones coming soon I think. I like watching this infrastructure race taking off. 

Solar Powered Oil. Orsted has done a 12 year deal with Exxon. This is likely through an energy forward contract of some sort and shows that shorter term contracts in tradable markets is the way to get deals done. Exxon is using solar to increase profits on oil, the irony. 

Slowing Militaries Resiliency. The military using solar, wind, energy storage and microgrids to make its facilities safer and less expensive to run is a good thing. Stopping that momentum is a bad thing. 

I’m All In On 180kWh Beast. This week at the LA Auto Show, a formerly stealthy company, Rivian, rolled out its 180kWh pickup and SUV trucks. I’m not saying I miss my F-250 but I’m all in on big electric trucks and the load they add to the grid that can be met with giant solar farms.

Opinion

Have a great day!

Yann