World Champions! The US Women’s National team continues their reign as World Cup champion and it was great to see their decisive victory. Given solar’s diversity study just a few months ago, I thought it would be an interesting question to ask how pay for women in solar stacks up to that in soccer. The USWMT gets 25% of their male counterparts for winning the World Cup, I’m hoping women in solar are much closer to the 100% mark.
A Set Of Questions. Let’s make a prediction. The DNC will host a climate debate in the near future. So the next step is deciding who the moderators should be and what questions they should ask. The moderators are going to bother us ‘in the biz’ because they will be the ones with a platform not ones that actually know the topic. Second, I can see that that questions focus on the political reality as opposed to the goal. The best hope would be to talk about what needs to be done and where we should go, leave the politics to the post election governance.
Both Sidesisms. Looking at the news from New Hampshire where the Governor keeps vetoing solar policies passed by the legislature, both net metering and RPS related. This isn’t an accident, republican politicians largely continue to be anti-solar and I’m a bit jaded by political advisors making noise about what republicans need to do to get into the climate conversation. When it comes to climate change topics, bipartisan approaches are no longer functioning in this political environment.
Rolling Eyes. Florida is too cloudy for solar was a talking point ten years ago, we’re beyond that now. While there are solar politics in play in Florida around C&I and utility scale access, Florida is leaving the market access quite open for residential customers and growing that market. The New York Times should cover solar with less concern of being detailed and complicated. Readers can understand more than the high level and the NYT owes them detailed view into our markets.
Market Driven. A great look at what is driving the market in Germany and how renewables are competing with the coal market. It’s beyond the control of the government at this point.
Reality Check. This was bound to happen, someone drove their Tesla from LA to Vegas and countered the EV story from a few weeks ago.
- Vox: We might get a climate debate after all. Here are 10 questions to ask candidates.
- Utility Dive: New Hampshire boosts solar mandates in its RPS, but advocates fear another Sununu veto
- New York Times: Florida, the Sunshine State, Is Slow to Adopt Rooftop Solar Power
- Axios: Sizing up Big Oil’s clean tech moves
- Bloomberg: Markets Drive Germany’s Exit From Coal Much Harder Than Merkel
- CleanTechnica: Vegas, Baby! Los Angeles To Vegas & Back In A Tesla Model 3 — 8 Hours Of Driving & 70 Minutes Of Charging
- PV-Tech: New York’s Long Island gets US$55m behind-the-meter storage boost
- LA Times: Environmentalists balk as Glendale power plant officials unveil ‘portfolio of tomorrow’
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Have a great day!
Yann