Small Coops Go Big On Solar. This is going to happen more often going forward, this being the coop that you’ve never heard of signing a PPA with what seems to be an extra 0. This is also true for markets that you may not be focused on, and it creates the goal for me to host a SolarWakeup Live! in every State across the Country even though Boston keeps me coming back. We added a great speaker yesterday, Marc Roper from ENGIE Storage, to talk about how the SMART program and ISO-NE rules enable energy storage to have a great revenue upside.
Tigers Know Better. Trump is creating a new climate change panel and it’s obvious pick for the chair is a climate science denier. I’ve known many impressive Princeton grads in my time and aside from their lousy lacrosse skills, they tend to be thoughtful and willing to look at the data before making up their mind. Every now and then comes along a Physics professor that believes more carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is good for the earth and in this case that professor will lead the US Government in discussing climate change. Do better Tigers!
PG&E Creates Microgrid Future. The articles about microgrids are increasing in depth and occurrence and much of that comes from people trying to understand how micrograms can help provide more resilience to the grid when transmission lines need to be pulled back for safety. The important question for regulators and legislators is why the speed of implementation of distributed generation should be held back at all and what they can do to enable the speed of development to increase capacity of renewables within the network. More discussion on this soon.
Sleep Easy Bramble Cay Melomy. A tiny rat that inhabited a vegetated cay near the Great Barrier Reef is now officially extinct due to impact of climate change. The cay had been inundated several times over the past few decades and maybe this doesn’t matter to humans given what and where this is happening. So here is the quote from Aldous Huxley that drives the point home, “That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons that history has to teach.”
- Solar Industry: Northern Virginia Electric Co-op Announces 300 MW Solar Deal
- Axios: Trump’s proposed climate panel would include prominent skeptic
- Greentech Media: How Solar and Batteries Could Help California Manage Fire-Prevention Grid Shutdowns
- Electrek: Bipartisan Solar Bill of Rights publicly introduced in California
- PA Home: PA Bill proposes community solar projects
- Utility Dive: Maine governor ends wind moratorium as lawmakers tee up net metering return
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Yann