Sorry, Not Sorry. First, SolarWakeup isn’t going premium. Yesterday was an April Fools joke (for now). I hope I don’t disappoint with the newsletter continuing on with the current arrangement you and I have. If you missed it, here is the link.
Quick Mount Expanding. Sometimes the most important news of the day is something I’ve been working on with the amazing team at Quick Mount PV. When we aren’t keeping the largest racking factory operating in the US, we’re looking for ways to expand and help our customers. Yesterday we announced our new warehouse and training center in Florida. Getting closer to our customers is key to our mutual success in addition to making the best portfolio of products in the industry. We won’t stop innovating and will always listen to our partners and installers when they have great feedback.
Storage Portfolio Transacts, Again. Macquarie is selling 50% of the energy storage portfolio to SUSI partners. SUSI is a Swiss investment company that was one of the first in the market with a focused fund on energy storage. Macquarie funded the AMS portfolio of Southern California storage projects a few years ago and is exiting half of that position now that it has been derisked. Macquarie’s GIG is doing some pretty great things around the world including the purchase of my former employer, Conergy, which continues to lead in Asia.
If You Care About Climate Change. Many of the stories today talk about the role of solar in the future energy and climate policies around the world. My biggest frustration with climate policy making now is the amount of money is sucks out of the process. I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again; there is no industry that does more to advance good policy than solar per dollar spent. If big donors care about climate change and want to do something about it, which means they have to lobby and get involved in policy, they should be putting a large portion of their advocacy spend into solar policy groups.
- Solar Builder: Quick Mount PV opens East Coast warehouse to supply Florida solar installers with rooftop racking, training
- Greentech Media: SUSI Partners Buys 50% Stake in AMS’ Commercial Battery Fleet
- PV-Tech: European Commission – Solar to be ‘central’ in post-2020 clean energy efforts
- CleanTechnica: Germany Awards 505 Megawatts At €0.065/kWh In First Large-Scale Solar PV Tender
- Energy Storage News: 8minutenergy – ‘We can do solar peaker plants at half the cost of gas’
- Renew Economy: Hawaii approves six low-priced solar and battery storage projects
- Utility Dive: Solar + storage projects to drive utility-scale deployment of batteries – Navigant
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Have a great day!
Yann