COVID-19 outbreak which started from China, has infected more than 550,000 people. Its spread has left businesses around the world counting costs. The majority of the U.S. and the world’s solar panel production hails from China. For weeks no one was going to work, but now slowly workers are returning. Manufacturers are not operating at full [...]
Do you know, even when the most of counties in Bay Area are in dark due to PG&E Shut down, some emergency stations remain a sturdy lifeline to surrounding homes, schools and businesses. Self-sufficient, they survived in the absence of PG&E. What was the thing which helps them survive?In response to power shutoffs, homeowners, businesses [...]
Electricity has become one of the basic needs for everyone and is a lifeline from small industry to large scale business. Use of fossil fuels, such as coal, natural gas, gasoline, unreliable and costly generators to produce power is one of the main factor of global warming. For reducing our carbon footprints, Solar-power could be [...]
The economics of solar conversion are driven by government incentives. While the price of modules keeps dropping and reaching parity with grid electricity so that incentives will not matter much longer, the fact is that conversion is still subsidized, and that we can calculate exactly how much less a US system will save today as [...]
It increases over time, not the other way around. Take the case of a mid-sized California business in the Bay area, with revenues of $55MM, paying PG&E $550,000 a year in electricity, 1 percent of sales, for 3MW of power, or 18.3 cents a kWh in 2017. Not unusual for this size customer in PGE [...]
Volume 2 | June 2018
In its just released “US Solar Market Insights” report, SEIA and GTM show that solar grew 13% year over year, but registered a 37% quarter over quarter decrease (last quarter was the largest ever), and that 55% of all new generating capacity added last quarter came from solar, the second quarter solar registered the largest [...]
Solar is getting smarter. The grid is structured on old business models which cannot deliver low cost electricity on the west coast. Entrenched interests prevent regulatory upgrades. The market is chipping away at the status quo. Battery software defines storage quality; better inverters synchronize production, usage and storage for their client while enabling the [...]
Overall, the transition out of fossil fuels and into electrification continues at a rapid pace and, for distributed solar in particular, the future looks bright. Not without clouds and daunting regulation obstacles, but shiny nonetheless. There will be pockets with temporary adjustments for residential and small commercial solar according to Paula Mints, founder and chief [...]
In what may now look like a signature Trump reversal, the Section 301 tariffs targeting $150 B in Chinese goods have been placed on hold. This hold relates to the Intellectual Property challenge raised by the administration, it is not about the steel and aluminum Tariffs. The tariffs placed on hold are separate from the [...]
