Happy Birthday. We have a special happy birthday mention from a great SolarWakeup friend, John Murphy, who passes along a happy 50th to operations guru Chris Perron. Let this be the start of the SolarWakeup birthday mentions!
Halfway Leaderboard. Catherine Heigher and Joseph Abel are leading our women’s and men’s brackets as we head to the final stages. Still feeling pretty good about my chances, hopefully breaking the streak of never having won the SolarWakeup bracket challenge.
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- Energy Storage News: ‘BESS to help ERCOT manage doubling of demand by 2030’: Energy Storage Summit USA 2025 kicks off
- PV-magazine: Texas Senate passes bill to expedite permits for home solar, battery systems
- Associated presses: Renewable energy jumps to new high, powered by China solar boom
- UTility Dive: PJM fast-track interconnection process draws 26.6 GW in proposals
- Reuters: Shell scraps solar, onshore wind power projects in Brazil
- PV-Tech: JinkoSolar ships 99.6GW of modules in 2024, endures operational losses
- Canary Media: Span’s new smart electrical panel can plug right into utility meters
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Best, Yann