This is your SolarWakeup for May 19th, 2022
CommonBond Now At OpenSolar. Today’s solar market is as competitive and challenging as ever but with CommonBond you can make sure getting your customers through the financing process quickly is not something you need to worry about. Now integrated with OpenSolar, you get direct connection from the fastest platform in solar financing to the leading proposal platform. Check it out here or click the header image above.
News
1 PV-Magazine:
Secretary of Commerce may have underrepresented history of solar tariff rates before Senate
2 Canary Media:
BNEF says Auxin misinterpreted its research in calling for solar tariffs
3 Utility Dive:
FERC’s Glick says he’s ‘bullish’ on energy storage, aims to prioritize regulations for hybrid projects
4 Axios:
EVs are shoving aside real volumes of oil
5 Reuters:
Severe drought could pose problems for US power grid this summer -NERC
6 PV-Tech:
UN sets out five actions to jumpstart renewable energy transition
7 Energy Storage News:
Energy storage makes ‘deep decarbonisation affordable’, finds three-year MIT study
Opinions:
8 CNBC:
It’s now cheaper to switch from coal to renewables instead of coal to gas, report shows
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Yann
This is your SolarWakeup for May 18th, 2022
CommonBond Now At OpenSolar. Today’s solar market is as competitive and challenging as ever but with CommonBond you can make sure getting your customers through the financing process quickly is not something you need to worry about. Now integrated with OpenSolar, you get direct connection from the fastest platform in solar financing to the leading proposal platform. Check it out here or click the header image above.
News
1 PV-Tech:
US governors pressure Biden, Raimondo to expedite solar AD/CVD review
2 utility Dive:
California governor floats 5-GW, $5.2B 'reliability reserve' amid possible electricity shortfalls
3 Canary Media:
Electric heavy-duty trucks are hitting the roads in California and beyond
4 PV-Magazine:
Solar O&M - Why a long-term maintenance plan is essential
5 Energy Storage News:
Up to 5.9GW of battery storage in Duke Energy carbon reduction plan for Carolinas
6 Reuters:
EU to map out escape route from Russian fossil fuels
7 Axios:
The global impact of local carbon cuts
Opinions:
8 Bloomberg:
EU Green Tech Needs Cash on Fossil-Fuel Scale, Gates Group Says
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Yann
This is your SolarWakeup for May 17th, 2022
CommonBond Now At OpenSolar. Today’s solar market is as competitive and challenging as ever but with CommonBond you can make sure getting your customers through the financing process quickly is not something you need to worry about. Now integrated with OpenSolar, you get direct connection from the fastest platform in solar financing to the leading proposal platform. Check it out here or click the header image above.
News
1 Utility Dive:
After calls for conservation and generator failures, Texas’ grid survived the weekend. It’s still May.
2 Bloomberg:
US Deepens China Solar Tariff Probe With Scrutiny of 8 Firms
3 E&E News:
PURPA fight could sway solar’s future in Ga.
4 Axios:
New Mexico Calf Canyon Fire becomes largest in state history
5 Solar Builder:
Fifth Third, PowerPay and CommonBond expand their home solar loan programs
6 Energy Storage News:
Batteries are number one at maintaining Australia’s grid frequency
7 PV-Magazine:
California solar policy misaligned with clean air board’s rooftop priority
8 Renew Economy:
“We must wean ourselves off fossil fuels
Opinions:
9 GreenBiz:
Can Engine No.1 lead Wall Street to ‘beyond investment as usual’?
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Yann
This is your SolarWakeup for May 16th, 2022
CommonBond Now At OpenSolar. Today’s solar market is as competitive and challenging as ever but with CommonBond you can make sure getting your customers through the financing process quickly is not something you need to worry about. Now integrated with OpenSolar, you get direct connection from the fastest platform in solar financing to the leading proposal platform. Check it out here or click the header image above.
News
1 Utility Dive:
Power prices jumped 51% in PJM, 85% in New England in Q1 due to rising gas prices
2 Bloomberg:
How Climate Is Splintering Australia’s Political Parties
3 Axios:
Exclusive - 21 federal agencies monitoring Ukraine war's environmental toll
4 RMI:
A Fair Green Deal for the Last Coal Plant in Mississippi
5 Energy Storage News:
Flow battery player ESS Inc has ‘strong confidence’ in 2022 performance despite ‘unanticipated challenges’ in Q1
6 Canary Media:
EVs can be cheaper on a monthly basis than gas-powered cars
7 PV-Magazine:
Climate, the Texas grid, and solar + batteries to the rescue
8 Texas Tribune:
Texans asked to limit electricity use after six power plants go down ahead of a hot weekend
Opinions:
9 New York Times:
We Can’t Drill Our Way to Energy Security
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Yann
This is your SolarWakeup for May 13th, 2022
It’s Here! Now You Can Sell an Install-Ready PV Design from Day 1 with TrueDesign™. Picture this: You're meeting with a homeowner about going solar. Five minutes in, you've auto-generated an install-ready system design based on highly accurate property measurements and verified shade data—without any design or back-office support. The homeowner signs a contract, and you send your planning team pre-built CAD files with recommended panel placement and all the data sets they need for permitting. With EagleView TrueDesign™, bridge the gap between sales-ready and install-ready designs, reducing soft costs and shortening your project cycles by 2 weeks. You'll never sell solar the same way again. Watch this video
News
1 PV-Magazine:
Secretary of Commerce may have underrepresented history of solar tariff rates before Senate
2 Reuters:
EU readies 195 billion euro plan to quit Russian fossil fuels
3 Utility Dive:
PJM releases road map for creating ‘grid of the future’ to handle coming renewables, storage wave
4 Canary Media:
EVs can be cheaper on a monthly basis than gas-powered cars
5 Renewables Now:
Digital Realty to source 158 MW of solar in California, Georgia
6 Axios:
Southwest "megadrought" leads to wildfires and new homicide evidence
7 PV-Tech:
CleanCapital secures US$200m credit facility for US solar, storage pipeline
Opinions:
8 RMI:
Clean Energy 101 - Electric Trucks
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Yann
This is your SolarWakeup for May 12th, 2022
The wait is over! Reduce Soft Costs and Shorten Cycle Times by 2 Weeks with TrueDesign™. EagleView is changing the way you sell and plan solar. EagleView's TrueDesign™ allows solar installers to auto-generate final, install-ready PV designs based on the most trustworthy data available—throughout the solar contracting process. That means fewer change orders and cancellations, lower soft costs, and better profit margins at every stage of the process. Learn more.
News
1 Bloomberg:
Social Capital-Backed Startup Scales Residential Solar
2 Reuters:
U.S. Commerce secretary says she can't influence solar tariff probe
3 Canary Media:
Schneider buys AutoGrid to tap huge potential of distributed energy resources
4 Axios:
The storm clouds over a bright renewables landscape
5 Utility Dive:
DOE plans to buy capacity on proposed power lines in first step for $2.5B transmission funding program
6 PV-Tech:
FTC Solar withdraws 2022 guidance citing ‘increasingly uncertain’ AD/CVD situation
7 PV-Magazine:
Flint Hills Resources to build 45 MW solar project to directly power its refinery
Opinions:
8 Energy Storage News:
European decarbonisation and fuel independence from Russia ‘impossible without energy storage’
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Yann
This is your SolarWakeup for May 11th, 2022
It’s Here! Now You Can Sell an Install-Ready PV Design from Day 1 with TrueDesign™. Picture this: You're meeting with a homeowner about going solar. Five minutes in, you've auto-generated an install-ready system design based on highly accurate property measurements and verified shade data—without any design or back-office support. The homeowner signs a contract, and you send your planning team pre-built CAD files with recommended panel placement and all the data sets they need for permitting. With EagleView TrueDesign™, bridge the gap between sales-ready and install-ready designs, reducing soft costs and shortening your project cycles by 2 weeks. You'll never sell solar the same way again. Watch this video
News
1 Axios:
Biden launches new transmission push
2 Energy Storage News:
Tesla maintains 2030 target of 1,500GWh annual energy storage deployment
3 Wall Street Journal:
Climate-Data Startup Arcadia Raises $200 Million
4 Canary Media:
How California can get to a reliable, 85% clean grid by 2030
5 PV-Magazine:
California NEM 3.0 revisited, Commission seeks industry feedback
6 Reuters:
Solar rooftops, manufacturing to get boost under draft EU plan
7 PV-Tech:
EU planning one-year renewable permits in ‘go-to areas’ as it steps up transition planning
Opinions:
8 New York Times:
How shareholders are pushing big banks for climate action
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Yann
This is your SolarWakeup for May 10th, 2022
It’s Here! Now You Can Sell an Install-Ready PV Design from Day 1 with TrueDesign™. Picture this: You're meeting with a homeowner about going solar. Five minutes in, you've auto-generated an install-ready system design based on highly accurate property measurements and verified shade data—without any design or back-office support. The homeowner signs a contract, and you send your planning team pre-built CAD files with recommended panel placement and all the data sets they need for permitting. With EagleView TrueDesign™, bridge the gap between sales-ready and install-ready designs, reducing soft costs and shortening your project cycles by 2 weeks. You'll never sell solar the same way again. Watch this video
News
1 New York Times:
Solar Power Offers Puerto Ricans a Lifeline but Remains an Elusive Goal
2 Reuters:
California revisits proposal reforming rooftop solar policy
3 Bloomberg:
Heat Wave Pushes Texas Power Demand Toward Levels Rarely Seen in Spring
4 Utility Dive:
States band together to push for nationwide fleet electrification
5 PV-Tech:
Lightsource bp sets up in France, targeting 1GW solar pipeline by 2026
6 Canary Media:
Chart - Lithium prices are through the roof this year
7 PV-Magazine:
Congress calls for end to solar panel tariffs in DOE budget meeting
Opinions:
8 Energy Storage News:
What role is large-scale battery storage playing on the grid today?
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Yann
This is your SolarWakeup for May 9th, 2022
It’s Here! Now You Can Sell an Install-Ready PV Design from Day 1 with TrueDesign™. Picture this: You're meeting with a homeowner about going solar. Five minutes in, you've auto-generated an install-ready system design based on highly accurate property measurements and verified shade data—without any design or back-office support. The homeowner signs a contract, and you send your planning team pre-built CAD files with recommended panel placement and all the data sets they need for permitting. With EagleView TrueDesign™, bridge the gap between sales-ready and install-ready designs, reducing soft costs and shortening your project cycles by 2 weeks. You'll never sell solar the same way again. Watch this video
News
1 Wall Street Journal:
Electricity Shortage Warnings Grow Across U.S
2 Bloomberg:
U.S. Commerce Head Aims to Move ‘Swiftly’ on Solar Trade Probe
3 Reuters:
California says it needs more power to keep the lights on
4 PV-Tech:
SunPower to invest in platform upgrades as residential solar customer backlog reaches new record
5 Energy Storage News:
Cellcube sets up US subsidiary to bring its vanadium flow battery to North America
6 Canary Media:
Auxin Solar - A look at the mysterious company causing a big trade mess
Opinions:
7 PV-Magazine:
DOC clarifies scope of anti-circumvention investigation, but what’s actually new?
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Yann
This is your SolarWakeup for May 6th, 2022
The wait is over! Reduce Soft Costs and Shorten Cycle Times by 2 Weeks with TrueDesign™. EagleView is changing the way you sell and plan solar. EagleView's TrueDesign™ allows solar installers to auto-generate final, install-ready PV designs based on the most trustworthy data available—throughout the solar contracting process. That means fewer change orders and cancellations, lower soft costs, and better profit margins at every stage of the process. Learn more.
News
1 PV-Magazine:
Utility TVA targets 10 GW of solar by 2035, currently owns 1 MW in operation
2 PV-Tech:
Sunrun adds 30,000 customers, 213MW of solar in Q1 2022 as it looks to protect itself against US headwinds
3 Reuters:
Companies confront a new climate challenge
4 Vox:
These batteries work from home
5 Axios:
DOJ launches office focused on environmental justice
6 Bloomberg:
U.S. Commerce Head Vows Urgency on Trade Probe Roiling Solar
Opinions:
7 Utility Dive:
Global ESG standard-setting gains speed
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Yann
