Latest Solar News: How the Grid Was Won: Three Scenarios for the Distributed Grid in 2030; How Arizona’s Biggest Utility Is Modeling the Customer of the Future in Its ‘Rate Design Laboratory’; And more
Solar Newsletter | July 18, 2016
TODAY'S NEWS FROM GTM
07.13.16 | Shayle Kann
How the Grid Was Won: Three Scenarios for the Distributed Grid in 2030
Shayle Kann imagines the future of electricity.
07.15.16 | Julia Pyper
Why Drones Are ‘Game-Changing’ for Renewable Energy
But they’ve had their wings clipped by regulations.
07.13.16 | Julia Pyper
How Arizona’s Biggest Utility Is Modeling the Customer of the Future in Its ‘Rate Design Laboratory’
APS says its utility-owned rooftop solar pilot is all about innovation, interoperability and a comprehensive approach to grid modernization.
07.14.16 | Jeff St. John
SolarEdge Sees Its Smart Inverters as the Hub of Battery-Backed Solar Homes
But it’s still too early to call it a market. “Just add batteries—there will be a business there.”
07.12.16 | Eric Wesoff
Energy Jobs: Schneider Electric, Tigo, EnerNOC, SPI, Renovate America, Faraday, and Hawaiian Solar
Executive and boardroom moves in cleantech, utilities, energy and VC.
Solar is following wind power by a few years in its meteoric path to volume, and has the opportunity to avoid the difficult early stage lessons that wind and nuclear industries had to experience the hard way. The methods and roadmap to reduce long term power plant risk is clear: test new technologies before deploying in volume, establish consistent industry standards for structural design, and utilize well established technical predictive tools to evaluate and account for long term maintenance costs.
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07.11.16 | Stephen Lacey
Solar at a Crossroads: A New Era for State Solar Policy?
On this week’s Interchange, we look at what a shakeup at The Alliance for Solar Choice means for the future of solar politics.
07.12.16 | Julia Pyper
State Bulletin: This Week’s Must-Read Clean Energy Policy News
Net metering uncertainty in Pennsylvania and Maine, distributed energy planning in New York and California, Georgia Power plans to add 1,200 megawatts of renewables to its portfolio, and more.
07.15.16 | Nicholas Rinaldi
GTM Statcast: The Week in Energy in Less Than 60 Seconds
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