This is your SolarWakeup for September 3rd, 2021

Multi Jurisdictional Solar Battles. As many of you have read and seen on the news, solar has to continue to fight to maintain access to markets that allow consumers to make their energy generation choice. In California, as fires burn like never before the fight happens across the board from licensing, regulatory with net metering, grid operators with curtailment and interconnection and even legislatively. None of this comes easy or cheap and participating financially is the hard truth for companies that want to compete in fair and open markets. Please take a moment and help CALSSA shore up for these fights.

Manchin Speaks. Senator Manchin wants a strategic pause for the reconciliation bill, arguing that more stimulus and inflation are reasons to halt the process and not do anything with this kind of price tag. With Senator Synema in a similar camp, it’ll be a showdown on the democratic side to see how to either do both infrastructure bills, just the bipartisan or neither and Pelosi is front and center on this.

Miami Wind Codes. Once again a single hurricane has cause incredible wind damage on the Gulf Coast while dumping a foot of rain on the New York/New Jersey area. Pictures of the flooded subways and floating cars show that the infrastructure isn’t meant to withstand the new reality of storms where they normally never went. Meanwhile transmission in Louisiana is still down and 80% of the oil and gas production is offline. 

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Best, Yann