Today on the Solar Podcast: Jason Beacock, Director of Business Development for Eneon-ES. Jason has extensive experience in bringing clean technologies to market. He is an advocate for renewables and helping clients understand and maximize the potential of battery energy storage in their projects. Eneon-ES designs and integrates turnkey battery energy storage systems for a variety of applications including DC or AC coupled solar + storage, microgrid, and grid connected systems. Eneon-ES is part of the Solv4EX group of companies that has focused solely on energy storage since 1949.

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Deep Decarbonization of the Solar Supply Chain with Michael Parr, Executive Director of the Ultra-Low Carbon Solar Alliance | **Please subscribe to the channel | **Likes shares and comments are the bees knees. Today on the Solar Podcast, my guest is Michael Parr, forty year veteran of manufacturing, with companies like DuPont. He is spearheading an important new solar industry group, the Ultra-Low Carbon Solar Alliance which aims to develop rigorous standards and labels for low-carbon solar equipment, especially solar panels. The key take away: not all solar modules are created equal and you, solar developers and EPCs, should take note. Low carbon solar panels have half the embedded carbon than high carbon, high coal electricity counterparts.
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Today on the Solar Podcast my guests are two engineers who are part of the team at NREL developing HOPP: Hybrid Optimization and Performance Platform which is a tool for utility scale hybrid power plant design and optimization. My guests are Parangat Bhaskar and Aaron Barker. While there are some great tools like HOMER for the C&I / behind the meter space, there is a need for better utility scale tools like HOPP. NREL and the DOE have successfully launched several energy modeling tools like SAM, PV Watts, and HOMER. Now they bring you HOPP. Listen, learn, like and please give us a thumbs up!

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Today on the Solar Podcast we bring you Wes Fuller, Head of Sales and Strategic Partnerships at Sunfolding, maker of the T29 Solar Tracker. Wes is helping to grow Sunfolding, an eight year old startup, (founded by Leila Madrone from MIT) that is now getting significant traction across the US. You may not have heard of the T29 Tracker (29 is molecular weight of air, btw) but after you listen to this interview you solar developers and EPCs out there will certainly want to take a closer look.

Features:
No batteries; no torque tubes. One nut, one bolt, one torque value. Z-purlins hold the solar modules/panels and provide easy wire management;

We dive into the Sunfolding T29 Single Axis Tracker, a very unique tracker that doesn't use a torque tube. They asked how can we use polymers to move solar panels instead of steel, motors and gears. The tables that hold the solar panels are rotated by compressed air powered actuators. This technology has been migrated from the automotive industry where it is tried and true in brake and shock systems. The T29 advantages include: 30% less labor; 70% lower civil engineering and site prep costs; less materials volume (25-50% less?) per MW of solar field.

The bladder and compressed air lines use DuPont polymer technology which is tried and true from the automotive industry. There is a compressor on site but overall less steel than in a torque tube based drive system like Nextracker, Array Technologies or Solar Flexrack.

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Today on the Solar Podcast it’s my pleasure to bring you Kristen Fornes, Director of Business Development for ENGIE Distributed Solar in Chicago. Kristen’s focus is on helping large corporate customers achieve their renewable energy goals through developing rooftop, ground mount, or carport solar installations at their facilities. Engie has developed some of the largest rooftop solar projects (IKEA Joliet, 2.9 MW) and portfolios (Target stores) in the Midwest and has a huge portfolio of wind, solar and storage projects across North America. Today we dive deeper into aspects of a commercial facility (like roof condition; like grid infrastructure) that make or break rooftop solar.

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Today on the Clean Power Hour with John Weaver: True Value of Solar; Fossil fuels massively fail in Texas; GigaTexas has snow! Zero Emission Tankers are coming; Battery testing by DNV; GreenTech Media is going away; Ultra-Low Carbon Solar is the future...and much more solar and storage news.
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Snow on Gigatexas Tesla Factory - progress is real. Weather is weird.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0UGfJvXnAas&t=38s

CleanTechnica: World’s 1st Zero-Emission Tanker Project Will Use Corvus Energy Storage System.
https://cleantechnica.com/2021/02/14/worlds-1st-zero-emission-tanker-project-will-use-corvus-energy-storage-system/
Link - https://corvusenergy.com/products/corvus-orca-energy/

DNV GL battery testing - uniqueness of batteries is main topic
https://commercialsolarguy.com/2021/02/16/commercial-battery-testing-some-like-it-hot/

GTM going down - https://twitter.com/emmafmerchant/status/1360277520117948420

More meyer burger - this time pictures from the solar cell factory:
https://twitter.com/GunterErfurt/status/1360247863654121477

Ultra-Low Carbon Solar Alliance is making strides to deeply decarbonize the solar supply chain.
Solar Podcast Ep82 - Michael Parr, Executive Director, ULCS Alliance

True Value of Solar
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2021/02/210209151816.htm
cLick - https://ars.els-cdn.com/content/image/1-s2.0-S1364032120308832-fx1_lrg.jpg

Texas grid collapse - NYT Reports
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/16/climate/texas-power-grid-failures.html

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Today on the Clean Power with John Weaver (Feb 10, 2021; Ep31): #Musk Xprize $100M for Carbon Capture (How big is a gigaton of CO2?); #Starlink is now available to all consumers in the US; Where’s John Weaver’s 150 day review of the #Tesla #ModelY (Montague’s review is in the show notes)? Can we make the #energytransition by 2035? Yes! (Rewiring America is coming on the Solar Podcast later this month with Sam Calisch); #EV Truck Wars - can #Rivian take on #Tesla? (all about supercharging) and much more #solar and #storage news.
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Tim’s 100 day owner’s review of the Model Y - Truth in Range is my mantra
https://youtu.be/u0Gt73V2oDE

$100M GIGATON SCALE CARBON Removal… The Musk Xprize takes form
https://www.xprize.org/prizes/elonmusk

SpaceX Starlink is now available to the public –'first come, first serve'.
https://www.tesmanian.com/blogs/tesmanian-blog/star-1

Brownfield Solar in Central Illinois - Tilton Solar by Ameresco / Inovateus
https://www.usnews.com/news/best-states/illinois/articles/2020-12-12/work-set-to-begin-on-solar-farm-at-former-gm-foundry-site | Drone vid

Oxford PV delayed about a year, but they did set a new efficiency record
https://commercialsolarguy.com/2021/02/08/solar-cell-efficiency-record-but-a-product-delayed/

7:1 DC to AC ratio for the solar, and a 24:1 storage to interconnection ratio
https://www.energy-storage.news/news/sungrow-supplies-dc-coupled-battery-storage-to-solar-power-plant-in-norther

Amazon's Rivian electric vehicles start making deliveries in LA. Holy crap batman!
https://www.engadget.com/amazon-rivian-electric-vehicles-are-making-deliveries-in-la-132506234.html
Comment… The Rivian is coming but will people buy a truck with no supercharger network? 10k vs 650k reservations… Can you guess which is which?

EIA predicts just a doubling of wind/solar by 2050 - ugh
https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=46676#

Corporate solar = utility solar = rooftop solar, both growing and shrinking
https://commercialsolarguy.com/2021/02/04/corporate-solar-utility-solar-rooftop-solar-both-growing-and-shrinking/

Cool chart showing stock returns of resi solar companies
https://twitter.com/clawrence/status/1357714092702769152

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**Please subscribe to the channel | Today on the Clean Power Hour: Powerlines are sexy; Local solar + storage worth $478 billion on the grid; $100 million of carbon capture from #Musk; Electrify everything! (including heavy equipment) and much much more.

Elon Musk is a master at grabbing headlines, but we wonder if there is substance behind his $100 million challenge to the 'best carbon capture technology.' Meanwhile, #Tesla Energy continues to crush stationary storage and solar sales are growing at a healthy clip. New York State is installing new power lines to reach a 70% clean grid by 2030 (most aggressive RPS in the US)...gotta love #NY. And #FERC report calls for a ground up overhaul of the grid - not a moment too soon. Welcome to the Clean Power Hour - if you’re new, please subscribe; If you like the content please give it a thumbs up; If you think others should know about it, please share it. -Tim Montague, NABCEP Technical Sales, co-host, creator, @tgmontague on Twitter
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Musk issues $100 million competition for carbon capture -
https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1352392678177034242
Tesla Energy Generation And Storage Business: Q4 2020 Results - solar up, storage up, lots of cells
https://commercialsolarguy.com/2021/01/28/tesla-doubles-energy-storage-deployed-40-gwh-of-battery-cells-sold-q4-earnings/

NY to Build Miles of New Power Lines to Accommodate Solar Power
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1KrOFkWRzWloBAlbEBnhf7pOITCLru4Y0/view
NV governor visiting lab talking HVDC
https://apnews.com/article/technology-energy-industry-las-vegas-nevada
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FERC Report Calls for a Ground-Up Overhaul of Federal Transmission Grid Policy.
https://www.greentechmedia.com/articles/read/making-the-case-for-a-ground-up-federal-transmission-grid-policy-overhaul
“royalty fees well exceed what they get from similarly buried fiber-optic lines, of which there are more than 100,000 miles along US railroads.”
https://www.volts.wtf/p/transmission-fortnight-burying-power

Distributed solar worth $478 billion
https://commercialsolarguy.com/2021/01/27/478-billion-of-cash-on-the-table-distributed-solar-energy-storage-savings/

Komatsu and Proterra Announce New Collaboration to Develop All-Electric Construction Equipment
https://www.proterra.com/press-release/komatsu-electric-construction-equipment/
Speaking of electrical gear - personal electric snow plow:
https://twitter.com/llsethj/status/1356386904594382854

Biden is canceling fossil fuel subsidies. But he can’t end them all..
https://grist.org/politics/biden-is-eliminating-fossil-fuel-subsidies-but-he-cant-end-them-all/

Residential flywheel whose purpose is to create power grid frequency that allows hardware to run even when grid does down, and solar installed
https://www.eenews.net/stories/1063723463

Resi Hydrogen battery… Electrolyzer and Fuel Cell
https://newatlas.com/energy/lavo-home-hydrogen-battery-storage/
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Today on the Clean Power Hour podcast (Ep.29) with John Weaver the Commercial Solar Guy: Goldman Sachs and Blackrock say: time to get on the solar and net zero train!; Buy 30 GW of solar, get 100 GW of solar free! Whut?; @Joe Biden swinging a big clean energy bat (Paris, FERC, EV fleet 645k); Carbon free solar panels thanks to @Meyer Burger and the Ultra Low Carbon Solar Alliance; Elon Musk’s $100 million competition for best carbon capture technology. If you like our content please subscribe to the channel. Give us a thumbs up and please share with your friends.

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Floating Solar on the Ocean, in the Mountains; Wind and Solar Making Green Hydrogen; Solar Powered Aluminum; ICE to EV: Retrofitting old cars and trucks with batteries; Rare Earth Element Politics - China flexing its muscles; and much, much more. **Please subscribe to the channel; Likes shares and comments are the bees knees; Hit that bell for the energy transition. Let’s grow solar! -Tim Montague, co-host & creator, @TGMontague on Twitter
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Siemens Gamesa making green hydrogen with wind
https://www.h2-view.com/story/siemens-gamesa-and-siemens-energy-to-unlock-a-new-era-of-offshore-green-hydrogen-production/
And another group aiming for some offshore solar to hydrogen
https://www.pv-magazine.com/2021/01/15/offshore-hydrogen-production-powered-by-floating-pv/

Solar powered aluminum
https://gulfnews.com/business/energy/uae-will-be-first-country-to-make-this-metal-from-solar-power-1.1610977095173

Beautiful floating solar in the mountains - just some nice images
https://twitter.com/SolarInMASS/status/1349544297754984448
Plus Open Ocean based solar - https://renews.biz/65755/equinor-to-pilot-floating-solar-off-norway/

Cool image from early 1900s predicting solar
https://twitter.com/jmkorhonen/status/781818357888720896/photo/1

Total the French Oil Major buys into Adani Green Energy for a cool half a billion
https://www.greentechmedia.com/articles/read/total-buys-stake-in-adani-green-energy-the-worlds-biggest-solar-developer

Massachusetts to ban sales of new EVs by 2035
https://www.caranddriver.com/news/a35104768/massachusetts-ban-new-gas-cars-2035/

Taking old gas and diesel trucks and turning them into EVs
https://twitter.com/SeaElectric/status/1351348488030859264

Massachusetts governor vetoes climate bill, says a big piece was because home builders said new potential requirements might slow/stop them
https://www.wbur.org/earthwhile/2021/01/14/massachusetts-climate-bill-veto-baker

Clean solar panels - about 3% efficient
https://www.pv-magazine-australia.com/2021/01/15/clearvues-solar-glass-installation-gets-green-light/

Rare earth politics - China putting pressure on pricing, will this lead to Biden reacting?
https://asia.nikkei.com/Business/Markets/Commodities/China-tightens-rare-earth-regulations-policing-entire-supply-chain

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Today on the Clean Power Hour with John Weaver, Commercial Solar Guy and Tim Montague, NABCEP Technical Sales (Ep.27)
25 GW of solar power in 2021 for the USA
Record solar panel efficiency
World’s largest battery - 5X 2nd largest - comes online
CO2 to...food?
Elon Musk - was the world’s richest person till yesterday
In EV news, GM unveils electric delivery van to compete with Rivian

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Renewables to dominate new U.S. capacity in 2021, with solar leading the way, storage to quadruple!
https://pv-magazine-usa.com/2021/01/11/renewables-to-dominate-new-u-s-capacity-in-2021-with-solar-leading-the-way/

CO2 capture to...food?
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-01-07/crop-trader-adm-pours-money-into-firm-making-meat-out-of-air
And speaking of CO2 real fast, CO2 markets headlines to start the year
https://twitter.com/AssaadRazzouk/status/1347686612512235528

New record solar cell and then record solar panel efficiency - 24.9%, 23.1%
https://www.pv-tech.org/news/jinkosolar-pushes-n-type-topcon-solar-cell-to-record-24.90-conversion-efficiency
https://www.pv-magazine.com/2021/01/12/jinkosolar-announces-23-01-efficiency-for-n-type-monocrystalline-panel/

World’s largest battery comes online right next to the Tesla Megapack we saw under construction last wee here (Moss Landing) - note the image in tweet - this is of the inverters, not the batteries
https://twitter.com/SolarKellyP/status/1346858938143305729

Elon richest in the world for a brief moment
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-01-06/musk-close-to-surpassing-bezos-as-world-s-richest-person

GM unveils electric delivery van to compete with Rivian.
https://www.cnbc.com/2021/01/12/gm-unveils-ev-van-as-part-of-new-commercial-unit-fedex-first-customer.html

**Renewables to dominate new U.S. capacity in 2021, with solar leading the way, storage to quadruple!
https://pv-magazine-usa.com/2021/01/11/renewables-to-dominate-new-u-s-capacity-in-2021-with-solar-leading-the-way/

**CO2 capture to...food?
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-01-07/crop-trader-adm-pours-money-into-firm-making-meat-out-of-air
And speaking of CO2 real fast, CO2 markets headlines to start the year
https://twitter.com/AssaadRazzouk/status/1347686612512235528

**New record solar cell and then record solar panel efficiency - 24.9%, 23.1%
https://www.pv-tech.org/news/jinkosolar-pushes-n-type-topcon-solar-cell-to-record-24.90-conversion-efficiency
https://www.pv-magazine.com/2021/01/12/jinkosolar-announces-23-01-efficiency-for-n-type-monocrystalline-panel/

**World’s largest battery comes online right next to the Tesla Megapack we saw under construction last wee here (Moss Landing) - note the image in tweet - this is of the inverters, not the batteries
https://twitter.com/SolarKellyP/status/1346858938143305729

**Elon richest in the world for a brief moment
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-01-06/musk-close-to-surpassing-bezos-as-world-s-richest-person

**GM unveils electric delivery van to compete with Rivian.
https://www.cnbc.com/2021/01/12/gm-unveils-ev-van-as-part-of-new-commercial-unit-fedex-first-customer.html

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