David Smart is Sr. Vice President of Sales and Marketing and oversees the strategic development of energy efficiency projects, renewable energy assets and energy financing transactions across all BioStar sectors. With an extensive understanding of state/federal policy and incentives, David spearheads complex opportunities, helping his team navigate high-level negotiations, while delivering maximum value to customers in the public and private sector.

In this episode we explore the waste gas industry in CA and other markets across the US.
These facilities generate a number of ecological goods...they convert a waste product from agriculture (food waste or animal waste) into natural gas which can be burned to generate onsite electricity or grid power. They also clean/reduce water runoff from the site. Solar and/or wind can also be integrated to increase local energy offsets and to clean the grid.

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We interview solar professionals, manufacturers, developers, financiers and other subject matter experts on renewable energy, energy storage and the energy transition. We dive into how solar creates ROI for facility owners, how solar finance works, solar economics, pollinator friendly solar, and solar equipment and technology trends. Whenever possible we put a Midwest spin on your solar and storage news.

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We interview solar professionals, manufacturers, developers, financiers and other subject matter experts on renewable energy, energy storage and the energy transition. We dive into how solar creates ROI for facility owners, how solar finance works, solar economics, pollinator friendly solar, and solar equipment and technology trends. Whenever possible we put a Midwest spin on your solar and storage news.

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SolarApp+ is an online platform that greatly simplifies rooftop solar permitting for AHJs (local government authorities having jurisdiction) and reducing soft costs for solar installers. Anson Moran is the Illinois Outreach Coordinator for SolarAPP. Anson is the former CEO of meteocontrol North America, a pioneering solar plant performance monitoring company based in Buffalo Grove, IL. He entered the solar energy business as the founder of Viasys Solar Secure, a perimeter security company for utility scale solar plants in 2010. Since then he has worked on 1.6 GWp of utility scale solar projects in North America, the Caribbean and Latin America in the capacities of executive, project management and sales.

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SolarApp is developed and maintained by the DOE and NREL (National Renewable Energy Laboratory). It is a free platform for permit issuing municipalities. Contractors enter the project information on the platform, https://solarapp.nrel.gov/, and if the project/ design qualifies the building permit is instantly issued and the AHJ gets the corresponding documents including a inspection checklist. SolarApp is a effort to reduce these soft costs and deploy residential solar faster.

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We interview solar professionals, manufacturers, developers, financiers and other subject matter experts on renewable energy, energy storage and the energy transition. We dive into how solar creates ROI for facility owners, how solar finance works, solar economics, pollinator friendly solar, and solar equipment and technology trends. Whenever possible we put a Midwest spin on your solar and storage news.

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Bri Bruce is the Director of Marketing for RPCS a construction partner of Array Technologies the single axis tracker manufacturer. She is the author of a nice white paper linked below that highlights the best practices of wildlife friendly solar. We discuss how solar developers and EPCs can effectively plan and execute solar projects that are friendly to birds, mammals, amphibians (toads, frogs), reptiles (snakes, lizzards) etc.

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RPCS Resources on wildlife and pollinator friendly solar including agrivoltaics:
https://www.rpcs.com/resources/
Wildlife:
https://www.rpcs.com/solar-wildlife-symbiosis/
Agrivoltaics:
https://www.rpcs.com/agrivoltaics/

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How solar farms perform in real life compared to how they are supposed to based on your design, construction and energy model is a complex matter. Paulo Soares is an energy researcher at Penn State University who developed an instrument to more accurately captures field data on solar irradiance to assist solar asset owner/operators and O&M teams identify and solve performance challenges. He holds a Ph.D. in Energy Engineering focused on solar energy from Penn State. He has 10+ years of experience in the renewables industry and he hails from Brazil. For his Ph.D. he investigated the relationship between solar energy generation and climate change. He developed economically accessible systems for measuring solar irradiance, using Python language, 3D printing, and machine learning algorithms. His work is relevant to urban planning and agrivoltaics.

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We interview solar professionals, manufacturers, developers, financiers and other subject matter experts on renewable energy, energy storage and the energy transition. We dive into how solar creates ROI for facility owners, how solar finance works, solar economics, pollinator friendly solar, and solar equipment and technology trends. Whenever possible we put a Midwest spin on your solar and storage news.

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Today on the Solar Podcast we dive into SolarApp+ with Dr. Beccca Jones-Albertus, Director of the Solar Energy Technologies Office at the US Dept of Energy where she leads a team that supports early-stage research and development in the technology areas of photovoltaics, concentrating solar-thermal power, and systems integration with the goal of improving the affordability, reliability, and performance of solar technologies on the grid.

SolarAPP+ is a platform for local permitting authorities (AHJs, authorities having jurisdiction) and solar installers which greatly eases the solar project permitting process. SolarAPP+ is being rolled out nationally and will greatly reduce the soft costs of solar - a win-win-win...more affordable solar means more consumers and business owners will embrace it which leads to job creation, tax revenue and a healthier environment for everyone.

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Dr. Jones-Albertus has spent her career advancing solar technology, from fundamental research and development to manufacturing. Prior to joining the Department of Energy, Dr. Jones-Albertus was at Solar Junction, where she led efforts developing the company’s two-time world record solar cells and transitioning the technology to manufacturing.
Dr. Jones-Albertus graduated magna cum laude from Princeton University with a B.S. in electrical engineering, and also holds a M.S. and Ph.D. in materials science and engineering from the University of California, Berkeley. She has more than 10 patents and 40 technical publications.

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We interview solar professionals, manufacturers, developers, financiers and other subject matter experts on renewable energy, energy storage and the energy transition. We dive into how solar creates ROI for facility owners, how solar finance works, solar economics, pollinator friendly solar, and solar equipment and technology trends. Whenever possible we put a Midwest spin on your solar and storage news.

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Corporates are going hard after renewable energy but hourly energy tracking is necessary
Robotic Electric Ships are taking on cargo shipping
Used Solar Panels Are Powering the Developing World
The US moves towards 45% emissions reduction by 2030

Reconciliation bill moving forward - this will hopefully contain direct pay 30%/ten year/ITC extension https://www.rollcall.com/2021/08/24/house-budget-resolution-vote/

Here's the chart Schumer's office sent out on how they'd get to this 45% emissions reduction number. The vast, vast majority comes from reconciliation and a Clean Electricity Payment Program (a CES) + clean energy tax incentives for wind, solar & other renewables. https://twitter.com/ella_nilsen/status/1430502940553453574

Robot Ships - pure electric - are the future of cargo shipping
Yara Birkeland could be the future of cargo vessels (cool photo of wind powered vessel in that link) https://www.cnet.com/roadshow/news/electric-cargo-ship-autonomous-yara-birkeland/

Companies and cities are taking the lead on clean energy purchases. When will market rules catch up? From Canary Media / Jeff St. John https://www.canarymedia.com/articles/companies-and-cities-are-taking-the-lead-on-clean-energy-purchases/

Used Solar Panels Are Powering the Developing World
https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2021-08-25/used-solar-panels-are-powering-the-developing-world

Energy Storage integrator FlexGen raises US$150m equity investment (Yann Brandt will be joining us in the coming weeks to discuss how FlexGen is making waves in the ESS space)

https://www.energy-storage.news/us150m-equity-investment-raised-by-energy-storage-system-integrator-flexgen/

EV’s were a thing 100 years ago and here’s a map! A map found on reddit of “EV charging stations in Chicago in…. wait for it: 1916”

https://twitter.com/stekkerauto/status/1430788436571656193

World’s largest wind turbine under development: MingYang Launches 16 MW Offshore Wind Turbine https://www.offshorewind.biz/2021/08/20/mingyang-launches-16-mw-offshore-wind-turbine/

Perovskite solar panels being deployed - maybe the first time for a commercial installation - ‘the premiere of solar sun blinds, sun breakers with perovskite solar cells on the Aliplast factory facade in Lublin. We are proud to complete the first part of the project – sunblinds with over 32 m2 of perovskite solar modules.’ https://sauletech.com/the-world-premiere-of-sun-breaker-installation/
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We interview solar professionals, manufacturers, developers, financiers and other subject matter experts on renewable energy, energy storage and the energy transition. We dive into how solar creates ROI for facility owners, how solar finance works, solar economics, pollinator friendly solar, and solar equipment and technology trends. Whenever possible we put a Midwest spin on your solar and storage news.

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We interview solar professionals, manufacturers, developers, financiers and other subject matter experts on renewable energy, energy storage and the energy transition. We dive into how solar creates ROI for facility owners, how solar finance works, solar economics, pollinator friendly solar, and solar equipment and technology trends. Whenever possible we put a Midwest spin on your solar and storage news.

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Frank van Mierlo, CEO of CubicPV is our guest today on the Clean Power Hour (E55). CubicPV is the new company formed by the merger of 1366 Technologies (direct wafer tech) with Hunt Perovskite Technologies. Welcome to the next frontier of solar PV technology!

Tandem solar technology layers two different light absorbers to increase energy harvest from more of the solar spectrum, boosting the power output of modules by 30%. The technologies that enable the leap to tandem solar, the Direct Wafer process and durable perovskites, will create a solar future defined by high-efficiency and lower embedded energy and materials. This makes 720 watt solar modules possible and soon, 1,000 watt modules! This is THE bleeding edge of solar PV technology that will underpin a massive industry to deliver clean electricity to meet society's growing energy needs and fuel the energy transition.

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We interview solar professionals, manufacturers, developers, financiers and other subject matter experts on renewable energy, energy storage and the energy transition. We dive into how solar creates ROI for facility owners, how solar finance works, solar economics, pollinator friendly solar, and solar equipment and technology trends. Whenever possible we put a Midwest spin on your solar and storage news.

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Residential flow battery ♫♪♪coming to America♫♪♪
SuperHeavy getting put together, beautiful!
Growing potatoes and broccoli indoors
$30 billion - nuclear or solar?

$30 billion - nuclear or solar? Who wins?
https://pv-magazine-usa.com/2021/08/05/youve-got-30-billion-to-spend-and-a-climate-crisis-nuclear-or-solar/

Supe
rheavy. Nuf said!
https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1422222995305676802
https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1423041198764265473
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vwXOB90XXpU

'can grow potatoes, strawberries, broccoli, celery seedlings, etc...IGS’s farms between 19.6 & 42.6 feet in height, footprint of 450 sq ft. Each tray is about 62 sq ft, and the company has grown as many as 50 crops in a single tower...'Broccoli normally takes six weeks. Our system ~11 days. Seed potatoes that normally take 18 months, our system will do it in 2.5 months compared to traditional farming. We can grow chilies in about a month. Basil normally takes a month to grow; we do it in about 16 days.'
https://www.greenbiz.com/article/meet-one-vertical-farm-venture-helping-industry-grow-past-greens

Residential flow battery coming to the USA, Gen 3 10kWh zinc-bromine flow battery, aka ZBM3
https://reneweconomy.com.au/redflow-in-strong-position-for-us-push-despite-falling-short-on-capital-raise/

ESS Inc flow battery installed in PA, saves company, ‘Power outages have a huge impact on our business – costing upwards of $40,000 per day(!) in lost revenue'’ !!!
https://www.solarpowerworldonline.com/2021/08/ess-iron-flow-battery-to-join-solar-microgrid-at-pennsylvania-industrial-site/

*'film is 11% efficient; developers confident can increase to 16% by early next year'
https://twitter.com/SolarInMASS/status/1422165618262949890
https://powerroll.solar/

Joint statement from three automakers on aspirations - ASPIRATIONS - to go 50% EV by 2030
https://twitter.com/DJKoessler/status/1423251309067706368

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We interview solar professionals, manufacturers, developers, financiers and other subject matter experts on renewable energy, energy storage and the energy transition. We dive into how solar creates ROI for facility owners, how solar finance works, solar economics, pollinator friendly solar, and solar equipment and technology trends. Whenever possible we put a Midwest spin on your solar and storage news.

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EP53 07/31/2021
Tesla VPP; Solar powered beer; Renewables #2 in the USA in 2020; US Energy storage installation volume is through the roof; Tesla sells out stationary storage thru 2023 - expects a million powerwalls a year in demand; World’s largest agrivoltaic project 660 MW in Serbia, 11 types of crops. But first...Montague goes to the dark side, literally and figuratively. Please subscribe the channel, give us a thumbs up and share it with your friends/colleagues.

This is why Montague going to the dark side is so dark...
Toyota is lobbying against electrification
The Verge: Toyota is quietly pushing Congress to slow the shift to electric vehicles.
https://www.theverge.com/2021/7/26/22594235/toyota-lobbying-dc-ev-congress-biden-donation

List of solar powered breweries put together by Adam at Whaling City solar
https://whalingcitysolar.com/solar-powered-breweries/

Renewables became the second most-prevalent us electricity source in 2020
https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=48896

Check out this chart of US energy deployment growth
https://twitter.com/NatBullard/status/1420707931213946880

Tesla California VPP - potentially 50,000 powerwalls, but no $$ yet
https://pv-magazine-usa.com/2021/07/23/tesla-powerwalls-in-california-join-the-movement-to-create-virtual-power-plants/

'Tesla uses the same chips in its Powerwall as it does in its vehicles, and Musk said vehicles are the priority while supply is low…..Chance of hitting .'annualized rate of a million units of Powerwall next year — maybe, on the order of 20,000 a week.'
https://techcrunch.com/2021/07/26/teslas-solar-and-energy-storage-business-rakes-in-810m-finally-exceeds-cost-of-revenue/

Trevor Milton of Nikola charged
https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/us-charges-nikola-founder-trevor-milton-with-lying-investors-2021-07-29/

PROJECT OF THE WEEK: 660 MW agrivoltaic; Agrosolar Kula will cover 700 hectares of land in Kula, divided into seven zones for various organic crops, allowing production for as much as 11 months a year.
https://balkangreenenergynews.com/fintel-energija-mk-group-to-install-europes-largest-solar-power-plant-under-agrosolar-kula-project/

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We interview solar professionals, manufacturers, developers, financiers and other subject matter experts on renewable energy, energy storage and the energy transition. We dive into how solar creates ROI for facility owners, how solar finance works, solar economics, pollinator friendly solar, and solar equipment and technology trends. Whenever possible we put a Midwest spin on your solar and storage news.

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The Pixies are coming and they feed on microgrids
The US adopts solar app nationwide
What is an ultra mega renewable energy project?
Electric Aviation taking off, literally
Billionaires are invading space - is that good?
World's largest floating solar!
How much does it cost to fly on Blue Origin?
CPH Ep52 July 23, 2021
Here to answer all these questions and more mysteries of the energy transition is my co-host and the commercial solar guy John weaver.

Virgin Galactic Unity 22 flies from Space Port America in NM
https://www.virgingalactic.com/news
& Bezos flight https://www.nbcnews.com/science/space/amazons-jeff-bezos-makes-history-civilian-suborbital-flight-rcna1436

Pixies are coming and they hail from Australia
https://www.canarymedia.com/articles/a-renewable-and-battery-only-microgrid-the-holy-grail-of-clean-energy/

Solar App goes national
https://www.seia.org/news/solar-permitting-tool-hits-market-boost-rooftop-solar-installations

New world’s largest floating solar ‘2.2 GW solar pv plus 4,000 MWh capacity; 1,600 hectares; 2,600 GWh annually; plans to start construction on site in 2022, and complete it in 2024"
http://taiyangnews.info/markets/worlds-largest-floating-solar-project-planned-in-indonesia/

What is a ultra mega renewable energy project?
Mint: NTPC to build India’s largest solar park of 4.75 GW in Rann of Kutch.
https://www.livemint.com/news/india/ntpc-to-build-india-s-largest-solar-park-of-4-75-gw-in-rann-of-kutch-11626176176794.html

CA powergrid breaks 1 GW energy storage discharge - symbolic number, but cool:
https://pv-magazine-usa.com/2021/07/15/california-breaks-1-gw-energy-storage-milestone-and-looks-to-a-future-1-21-gw-moment/
The injection 1 GW broke on 7/17 - https://twitter.com/jdeely/status/1416850475157057536

Massive battery capacity in the 2030 pipeline - 4.1 TWh of manufacturing capacity
https://twitter.com/sdmoores/status/1417070777975836675

Pricing information on Megapacks $278/kWh - get your cc out
https://www.thestreet.com/tesla/news/new-tesla-megapack-details-price

Electric airplanes
https://twitter.com/Lilium/status/1415008190471843840

Floating wind rig video on twitter -
https://twitter.com/Jay_Hansen/status/1417683121579827204

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The Solar Podcast is brought to you by Continental Energy Solutions with host Tim Montague, NABCEP PV Technical Sales. Continental is the largest commercial & industrial solar installer (solar EPC) in Illinois with over 100 projects and 60 MW of rooftop, ground mount and utility scale solar installations in the Midwest.

We interview solar professionals, manufacturers, developers, financiers and other subject matter experts on renewable energy, energy storage and the energy transition. We dive into how solar creates ROI for facility owners, how solar finance works, solar economics, pollinator friendly solar, and solar equipment and technology trends. Whenever possible we put a Midwest spin on your solar and storage news.

The Solar Podcast is produced and created by Tim Montague, Solar Expert. Please like, comment and subscribe to our channel. Thank you for watching! Please post comments and suggestion for future shows on the channel or contact Tim Montague tmontague@cesnrg.com | @tgmontague on Twitter - follow me!
Check out our podcast live interviews: www.cesnrg.com/podcast
Check out John's blog: https://commercialsolarguy.com/news/
John on twitter: https://twitter.com/SolarInMASS
Tim on twitter: https://twitter.com/tgmontague