Net Metering is under attack in California. The utilities aim to devalue the kWh produced by rooftop solar. If you don’t have retail net metering you don’t have a good solar market and your ability to realize the economic benefits of solar are crushed. Today on the Solar Podcast we bring you Bernadette Del Chiaro, Executive Director of CALSSA (California Solar & Storage Association) the major advocacy organization for the solar industry in CA. Net metering is a fundamental policy that can help or hurt the solar industry and consumer benefits of solar. In a perfect world, you get full retail credit for electrons fed back onto the grid from your solar array. To offset 100% of your annual energy consumption your array will overproduce in the summer and under produce in the winter. CA has over 1.2 million (10 gigawatts) of distributed solar in the state. About 10 percent of ratepayers now have solar in CA. If you don’t have net metering in your state you probably don’t have a vibrant rooftop solar market.

https://youtu.be/LrJYzvRLuCA

Outline:
What is Net Energy Metering?
Why CA moved to NEM 2.0 and what’s at stake with NEM 3.0
The Fight in CA Over Net Metering
Penetration of solar in CA - 1.2 M rooftops
CA mandated all new construction have solar starting in 2020 (1, 2 and 3 story buildings)
Role of the PUC
NEM 2.0 vs. 3.0
IOUs (80%) vs. Munis (20% of the state)
Solar works best in IOUs unless they kill net metering
PG&E, Southern CA Edison, Sempra/SDG&E - are asking for three things any one of which would kill the solar market:
1. Slap a Solar Fee on consumers and business owners averaging $78/mo (resi); and nearly $1,000/mo for commercial facilities;
2. Devalue the export value of energy to grid (during the summer primarily) to 5.7 cents/kWh as opposed to the current 25 cents;
3. Monthly true up as opposed to the annual true up - this really hurts the economics of solar.
Even if the PUC gives the IOUs half of what they are asking for these changes would kill the solar industry
The PUC consists of five governor appointed officials
Income disparity - 5 percent of low income residents have solar compared to 10 percent on average for the population
Goal of shifting the market to solar plus storage
Take Action
https://www.savecaliforniasolar.org/
https://solarapp.nrel.gov/
https://calssa.org/


Bernadette Del Chiaro came to the California Solar & Storage Association in July 2013
and has built the organization into the largest clean energy business group in
the state. Prior to her work with CALSSA, Ms. Del Chiaro served as the Director
of Clean Energy and Global Warming Programs at Environment California as well
as the Western States Regional Director for Environment America. Since 2002,
Bernadette has been a leading voice on many California clean energy initiatives
including the Million Solar Roofs Initiative (SB 1), the Solar Water Heating
Initiative (AB 1470), the continued expansion of Net Energy Metering, the
establishment of streamlined solar permitting (AB 2188), and the expansion of
consumer incentives for energy storage (SB 700). She's authored several
clean energy reports and has been quoted widely in the media including MSNBC,
NPR, BBC, New York Times, Los Angeles Times, and dozens of local and trade
outlets. Del Chiaro, a California native, graduated from the University of
California at Berkeley in 1995. She lives in Sacramento with her husband and two children.
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Tom Tansy - Reducing Soft Costs of Solar | SunSpec Alliance | Solar Podcast Ep.94
Today on the Solar Podcast we explore what it takes to reduce the soft costs of solar. SunSpec Alliance has a nationwide database initiative to make AHJ permitting and inspection information accessible to solar installers and EPCs. Bringing down the soft costs could reduce the cost of rooftop solar by as much as a third.
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Tom Tansy is Chairman of the SunSpec Alliance where he leads the distributed energy industry’s efforts to establish data and communication standards that enable seamless integration of solar PV and storage into the Smart Grid. The SunSpec Alliance has more than 100 stakeholders across the globe, including leading fleet operators, component suppliers, software developers, and utilities. Tom previously served as General Manager and Vice President of Business Development for Power-One (now part of ABB) and helped start electric vehicle manufacturer Zero Motorcycles.

The SunSpec Alliance is a trade alliance of more than 100 solar and storage distributed energy industry participants, together pursuing information standards to enable “plug & play” system interoperability. SunSpec standards address operational aspects of solar PV power and energy storage plants on the smart grid—including residential, commercial, and utility-scale systems—thus reducing cost, promoting technology innovation, and accelerating industry growth.
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Improving solar & storage project IRR | My guest today is Andy Klump, CEO of Clean Energy Associates. We discuss various ways that solar developers and financiers can increase IRR. We explore the role of 3rd party engineering services, supply chain management, quality assurance and future trends. Andy is a renewable energy executive with  20  years of solar energy, storage and technology experience with  15  years’  operating in China.

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Clean Energy Associates provides technical due diligence and engineering services for solar and storage clients in 55 countries who are financial institutions, project developers, EPCs, IPPs, and PV power plant owners. Prior to CEA, Andy served as the Vice President of Business Development for Trina Solar, where he headed the company’s international expansion plans covering supply chain, international business development, capital raising, and corporate development.

Improving project IRR and reducing the levelized cost of energy (LCOE) are the goal of every project developer, financier and EPC. There are many aspects of engineering, product selection, quality assurance, 3rd party review and other due diligence that energy companies and investors can take, and we’ll be exploring the following topics and questions: Increasing IRR, the role of 3rd party engineering services, supply chain management, quality assurance and future trends.

Explanation of IRR vs NPV vs ROI for the non-finance people
What are significant factors that impact the IRR in solar projects?
Where to focus to increase ROI?
Engineering Services:

Benefits of 3rd party engineering services and how ES can improve IRR
Case Studies (Emergency Services)
Project Development / Engineering & Construction / Operations and Maintenance / Project Sale & Acquisition

Supply Chain Management (SCM):

Explanation of SCM and how SCM can improve IRR
Cost Reduction / Sourcing Strategies / Procurement Support

Quality Assurance:
What is QA and how does it improve IRR?
Factory Audits / Production Monitoring / Pre-shipment Inspection / Container loading
Who is right for QA? Just Big players + 100MW projects or anyone?
How does it scale in terms of benefits?
Future Trends

What trends do you see in the Solar/Energy storage market going forward?
Thoughts on Green Hydrogen?

Andy Klump is a renewable energy executive with 20 years of solar energy, storage and technology experience with 15 years’ operating in China. Prior to CEA, Andy served as the Vice President of Business Development for Trina Solar, where he headed the company’s international expansion plans covering supply chain, international business development, capital raising, and corporate development. During the period from 2006 to 2008, the management team successfully raised nearly $500 million in capital during Trina’s IPO, follow-on, and convertible bond offerings on the New York Stock Exchange. Additionally, Andy also served as an active Board Member of the U.S. Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA).

Being proactive towards society and entrepreneurial in nature, Andy also co-founded KIDSIQProject.org in 2015, a non-profit organization advancing drug development for reversible Intellectual disability disorders with an initial focus on Kleefstra Syndrome. Andy is also a board member of ion Ventures and Solar Inventions.

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Mike Casey - Reducing Soft Costs of Solar | Industry Insights | Tigercomm | Solar Podcast Ep.92
Today on the Solar Podcast: How to accelerate an already explosive industry, create jobs, put money in the pocket of consumers and stop climate change? Mike Casey and Yann Brandt (Solar Wakeup Live; Flexgen) argue that reducing soft costs is a vital step we must make in the solar industry. In their eyes (see link to PV Magazine story below) there is a significant opportunity to streamline permitting and inspection of solar projects.
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Today we interview the Vice President of Sustainability for Inovateus Solar, Tyler Kanczuzewski. Inovateus has embarked on ambitious internal and external sustainability initiatives which includes: waste reduction, zero waste construction, pollinator friendly landscaping, renewable energy on their own facilities, energy and water conservation. Net zero solar projects will become a thing and Inovateus is a thought leader and practice leader in this arena. Let's grow solar! -Tim Montague
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Solar Panel Recycling Workshop that Inovateus gave recently:
https://youtu.be/sRjN3gJsYoU
Our interview with Inovateus CEO TJ Kanczuzewski: Building a Brilliant Tomorrow: https://youtu.be/kMs6Z6Q8u5A

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The US Dept of Energy is putting a stake in the ground for offshore wind, perovskite solar PV, next generation CSP and aiming for net zero by 2050. Today on the Clean Power Hour with John Weaver: Update from the DOE - Big plans coming to life under Granholm; Ocean floating solar in Singapore; Net metering under attack in CA; Biden Huge Infrastructure Plan; PA state Gov now solar powered and much much more solar, storage and clean energy news.

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Badass animation of STI Nordland tracker
https://youtu.be/NKEGCE06MLI

Electric cars being charged in 1907
https://twitter.com/alvinfoo/status/1375823658443104263

Update from DOE Secretary Granholm. Goals, funding priorities, R&D into Cad Tel, Perovskites, CSP Gen3
https://youtu.be/Ga9S928B7fk

Ocean floating solar in Singapore
https://electrek.co/2021/03/25/singapore-completes-one-of-the-first-floating-solar-farms-in-the-sea/

First V2G school busses
https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20210323005889/en/Blue-Bird-Delivers-North-America%E2%80%99s-First-Ever-Commercial-Application-of-Vehicle-to-Grid-Technology-in-Electric-School-Bus-Partnership-with-Nuvve-and-Illinois-School-Districts

https://www.voanews.com/usa/biden-looking-big-infrastructure-spending-deal
Ten trillion infrastructure plan over the next decade
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/infrastructure-bill-biden-administration-progressive-democrats_n_605e518ec5b6531eed04e2a6

US breaks 100 GW in January
https://commercialsolarguy.com/2021/03/30/united-states-installs-100-gigawatts-of-solar-power/

PA state Gov now solar powered… nice vid
https://www.governor.pa.gov/newsroom/gov-wolf-announces-largest-government-solar-energy-commitment-in-the-u-s/

(CA) net metering under attack
https://calssa.org/net-metering


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Today on the Clean Power Hour with John Weaver, Episode 37
Solar & Storage - some amazing content coming your way on the Solar Podcast; Solar powered mars helicopter launching anytime now; Want to get paid to plug your car in? EV to grid!; John Weaver thinks there will be a solar greenhouse revolution; And much much more solar and storage news. In the news today we bring you a variety of stories about virtual power plants and residential batteries. Our friend Jim Spano came on the Solar Podcast this week and he has a project with Sonnen in Texas to clean up the grid debacle. Germany is going after the VPP where 300,000 residents now have batteries paired with solar (70% of solar installs is paired with ESS). Agrivoltaics and solar greenhouses are a thing.

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Today on the Clean Power Hour with John Weaver: Aftermath of TX grid collapse means microgrid bonanza; Germany was 100% clean energy powered (for a moment); It’s official, solar in the USA in 2020 breaks previous records; A 400kWh+ EV truck chassis from Bolinger (better than Canoo? Cybertruck and Rivian?) and much more solar and storage news from Continental Energy Solutions. Join us. Give us a thumbs up if you like the content and subscribe to the channel!
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EP 36 March 17, 2021

Sustainable Energy in America Factbook 2021 BNEF
https://documentcloud.adobe.com/link/review?uri=urn:aaid:scds:US:7f571f51-de01-4238-b382-b04da77645ea

Germany was generating more renewable electricity than it was using
https://twitter.com/energy_charts/status/1370738992099000321

US install 2020 numbers are out - 19.2 GW, utility scale way up - check out the graph with the end of decade numbers though - 50 GW+
https://pv-magazine-usa.com/2021/03/16/u-s-solar-industry-comes-roaring-back-breaks-multiple-records-in-2020/

Aftermath of TX grid collapse means microgrid bonanza
https://microgridknowledge.com/texas-grid-microgrids/

Bolinger EV Chassis - $55k base price, price and battery goes up to 402 kWh
https://www.greencarreports.com/news/1131562_bollinger-electric-truck-chassis-starts-at-55-000-batteries-range-up-to-402-kwh

Swedes building largest battery factory in Europe
https://www.rechargenews.com/markets/northvolt-to-build-europe-s-largest-energy-storage-systems-plant-in-poland/2-1-966232
Also they have the cleanest factories for making batteries (these numbers don’t include mining)
https://twitter.com/JamesTFrith/status/1371444597063290883

Equinor the Norwegian energy giant unveils global strategy and floating wind is big part
https://www.greentechmedia.com/articles/read/floating-wind-is-cutting-costs-faster-than-regular-offshore-wind

Just a cool picture of an install
https://twitter.com/SolarInMASS/status/1371490145069842432

MA rooftop mandate submitted
https://pv-magazine-usa.com/2021/03/08/bill-would-mandate-rooftop-solar-on-new-homes-and-commercial-buildings/

'total of 21 products from 18 different companies have made it to our list greater than21% efficient solar panel'
http://taiyangnews.info/technology/many-module-efficiencies-above-21/



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Jigar Shah joins DOE, Yann Brandt surfs into battery storage and much much more solar & storage news from Tim Montague and John Weaver
Today on the Clean Power Hour EP 35 March 10, 2021
SN 10 sticks the landing! Then goes Boom!
Starlink goes mobile
Tesla FSD beta is rolling out for the masses

SN 10 sticks the landing, then goes boom
https://twitter.com/roman_spl/status/1367256591339249665

Solar panel flying off of pickup - you don’t want this
https://mypolice.qld.gov.au/news/2021/03/03/unsecured-load-bracken-ridge/

Solar energy growth is exponential again – up 28%, 3.2% of all electricity in 2020 by John Weaver
https://commercialsolarguy.com/2021/03/03/solar-energy-growth-is-exponential-again-up-28-3-2-of-all-electricity-in-2020/

Tesla Victoria Big Battery - we missed this last week - 300/450 MWh
https://www.teslarati.com/tesla-megapack-neoen-victorian-big-battery-investment/

The Vikings have solved C02 capture… Carbfix in Iceland wins the Musk Xprize before it's officially announced
https://www.carbfix.com/

Jigar Shah to head up the Dept of Energy loan program office
https://www.greentechmedia.com/articles/read/how-jigar-shah-plans-to-manage-does-40b-loan-programs-office

Flexgen flexes its muscles, hires industry vet - Yann Brandt
https://www.greentechmedia.com/articles/read/new-leadership-comes-to-storage-integrator-flexgen-at-crucial-time

Starlink goes mobile! What is an ESIM? Gfq.
Ars Technica: SpaceX plans Starlink broadband for trucks, ships, and planes [Updated].
https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2021/03/spacex-plans-starlink-broadband-for-cars-boats-and-planes/

Solar powered moon base - a solar powered vault for life’s DNA
https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2021-03/uoac-eps030821.php

Floating 32 MWh battery brings grid stability to island nations - what more could a mother want?
https://www.energy-storage.news/news/waertsilae-to-install-first-of-its-kind-floating-battery-storage-solution-i


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Today on the Clean Power Hour (Ep 34 March 3, 2021) with John Weaver: Plug Power is building a green hydrogen facility in NY; Space based solar a growing phenomenon; NREL’s annual report on the cost of solar is out...and much much more of the latest solar, storage and renewable energy news.

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NY State is getting a green hydrogen facility from Plug Power
https://www.ir.plugpower.com/Press-Releases/Press-Release-Details/2021/Plug-Power-to-Build-North-Americas-Largest-Green-Hydrogen-Production-Facility-in-Western-New-York/default.aspx

Space based solar is an area of hot research - the US Naval Research Lab recently launched a solar panel that beams energy back to Earth via microwave.
http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/cnn_topstories/~3/POBHUt-loN8/index.html

Annual NREL solar pricing report, focus on C&I https://commercialsolarguy.com/2021/02/24/what-does-a-commercial-solar-panel-system-cost-free-government-research-series/

Maine interconnection woes - the utility in ME has gone back and forth on the crazy interconnection fees for community solar projects driving developers insane https://pv-magazine-usa.com/2021/02/24/crossed-wires-at-a-utility-jolt-maines-solar-developers/

BIPV in the netherlands - Building integrated solar is a sight to behold
https://twitter.com/haroldvandeven/status/1364996246520258568

PA solar market so ready to pop - Pennsylvania has lots of potential but needs new legislation
https://pv-magazine-usa.com/2021/02/22/at-a-crossroads-pennsylvania-is-poised-to-turn-to-solar/

Exelon breaks into two giants - the Illinois-based utility is splitting up its generating assets from its other utilities which include ComEd and suppliers like Constellation Energy
https://www.greentechmedia.com/articles/read/exelon-to-split-generation-business-from-its-regulated-utilities
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