Can’t Escape It. It was hard to escape the smoke this week, with over 60million Americans affected with poor air quality. Hard to think about how to tackle the wildfire problem but climate change can’t possibly be helping. We’re about to enter silly season where one political party wants to make this a wedge topic to separate us, but in the end we all breathe the same air and drink the same water.
Impact On Solar. Interestingly, this is a concern of the grid operators in California. What happens to the reliability of solar production when wild fires reduce solar radiance across the geography? The entire northeast felt this with the smoke cover lingering for several days bringing this scenario to a new grid.
The US Scale. If you look at the energy storage deployment across the world, you’ll realize that the scale in the US is exponentially bigger.
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- Bloomberg: Smoke Sends US Northeast Solar Power Plunging by 50% as Wildfires Rage in Canada
- NBC: PG&E facing huge maintenance backlog going into fire season
- Axios: Record-breaking wildfire-related smoke event affects at least 61.8 million
- Reuters: Higher renewable energy generation to cut coal reliance this summer, says EIA
- PV Magazine: U.S. solar market expected to triple in size in five years
- PV-Tech: US solar had best ever Q1 in 2023 as supply chain shackles start to loosen – WoodMac
- Energy Storage News: Japan’s Itochu, Osaka Gas partner for battery storage with initial 11MW grid-scale project
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Best, Yann