This is your SolarWakeup for December 22nd, 2023

Adieu 2023. You’ll hear from me one more time in 2023, as I recap the storylines that will remind me of this rather strange year. So this will be the last regularly scheduled newsletter for the year and an interesting thought popped into my head as I sat down to write this. BNEF’s Nat Bullard, who started writing his weekly rundown 2 years after I did, announced today that he will be ending Sparklines after a 9 year run. NREL also used to have a newsletter that ended circa 2013. I’m not ending the SolarWakeup run, while many of you have commented that I’ve been writing less, which is true, I still enjoy getting the news out to you. Which means that SolarWakeup will continue its run as the most influential newsletter in solar (and storage). I also don’t have hundreds of thousands of subscribers (though I think I should) because this isn’t my job. Writing this newsletter is how I get better at my day job, it makes me learn every day about what is going on and then have a thought about it. This level of routine, which is not in my DNA, has forced me to take into account so many different market variables and then publicly challenge you to correct me on that view if I’m wrong. So here’s to many more rundowns and thoughts, with your job being two things. First, I hope you value this enough to tell folks that they should subscribe and second, you challenge and correct me on my views so that we can find ways to keep getting better at this.
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Best, Yann