It’s About Saving Economies. The gravity of the work we’ve been doing has always been an undertone to our pitch. Reading this week’s headlines you see how close to blackouts California is in the midst of a heat wave, grid operations are also stretched to the limits in ERCOT and MISO. Europe is also dealing with unstable fuel supply with ongoing aggression by Russia. Every solar panel and battery, matched with local resources like demand response needs to work in tandem so that not only is a capacity reserve on the generation side but also a more resilient and intelligent flexibility on the demand side of the grid.
Development And Supply. There is insatiable demand and unlimited capital for solar and storage projects. The issue that slows deployment is in approvals, interconnections, and availability for supply. One of the things that will come out at SPI is that procurement is not based on a single project or portfolio, instead focusing on filing out the entire business plan of development over multiple years.
Politics Still Misses The Point. Meanwhile the California legislature is trying to stop community solar, right when the grid and consumers are benefiting most from solar.
- Barron’s: European Natural Gas Prices Spike as Russia Keeps Pipeline Closed Indefinitely
- Axios: California warns power outages “very possible” as heat strains supply
- Utility Dive: California exempts energy storage from subdivision rule to accelerate deployment
- Bloomberg: World Spending on Cables Will Have to Rival Solar and Wind Power
- Reuters: California power grid threatened by record heat wave as wildfire risk rises
- PV-Tech: Reliance Industries buys 80% stake in US solar software company SenseHawk
- Energy Storage News: CATL, Narada among top performers in DNV’s 2022 ‘Battery Scorecard’
- PV-Magazine: Residential solar to add 340,000 workers in five years, says U.S. installer survey
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Best, Yann