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Tournament Challenge, 2019 Edition. Get ready to compete again for 2019! Last year it came down to the final day between Allie Detrio (Engie), Tom Matzzie (CleanChoice), and Nathan Arbitman (DSM) with Nathan coming out on top at the very end. This year, you’ll be able to join your solar friends to show your skills (luck) in picking this year’s NCAA March Madness winner. With everyone bound to pick Duke as the winner, the details will matter more than ever. Or go with another winner in the hopes to zig when the market zags. Head to ESPN Tournament Challenge, login and search for the SolarWakeup group. The password is Solar100 to get your entry. Of course, the winner gets to write the rundown for a day!
What Does The ITC Mean To You? Nothing in the news on the topic but the discussion has been circling my inbox since my comments last week about solar being left out of the Senate extenders package. Are you worried about the step-down of the ITC? Are you in the (small) camp that believes the solar market will be better off without the ITC? Who’s hurt the most by a step-down and eventual sunset of the ITC, utility scale, residential or commercial? What do you want SEIA and advocates to do? Leave as is, fight to keep at 30% or something else? I want your feedback so I can do a reality check on my personal view on the topic.
A Disservice To America. Kentucky is doing a disservice to its residents by killing its solar market. Solar in Kentucky was well on the way to do like Texas and Florida, compete with electricity with no subsidy whatsoever. It would have created an excellent opportunity for job training and good paying jobs with upward mobility through local small businesses. Instead, at the bidding of the incumbent coal and utility market, Kentucky is going to keep those opportunities from the residents in Kentucky.
Community Solar Future. It’s always been surprising to me that California doesn’t have a robust community solar market. There was a recent project that mirrored the concept outside of the rules but the attempts to do community solar have fallen short. We’ll be talking about the state of community solar growth across the Country with a rockstar panel at SolarWakeup Live! next week. Just one more week until we get together in Boston. The agenda is long and thorough, we added another room to get a few more people into the event which area always very good networking. Email me for a special code to get into the event by hitting reply or go to solarwakeuplive.com
- Utility Dive: Kentucky rolls back net metering, bucking recent pro-solar trend elsewhere
- Fox Memphis: TVA’s resource plan includes more solar power
- Greentech Media: Inside California’s Community Solar Experiment
- Solar Power World: Vote Solar challenges Florida utility’s misleading solar proposal
- Pv-Tech: Sonnedix closes on US$283 million corporate facility
- Renew Economy: Germany renewables share jumped to to 72.4% last week
- Think Progress: Beto O’Rourke is right on climate, and the AP ‘fact-check’ is wrong
- Rocky Mountain Institute: Repowering Old Mines with New Energies in the Southwestern United States
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Have a great day!
Yann