Thứ Ba, 30 tháng 6, 2020

This is your SolarWakeup for June 30th, 2020

Get Into ITC Game. Last week, the House Ways and Means Committee introduced the GREEN Act as a part of the $1.5 trillion House infrastructure package. The bill, which is expected to pass this week in the House, would push out deadlines for the Solar Investment Tax Credit and provide a direct payment option in lieu of the ITC. And now it’s time for you to take action. A strong grassroots push now can make a difference in solar’s ability to get pro-solar provisions added to bipartisan COVID-19 recovery legislation. Many of you operate in districts and states that are critical to our success, SEIA is asking companies to sign-on to our letter urging Congress to support pro-solar policies. In the spirit of bipartisanship, Representatives Paul Cook (R-CA) and Jimmy Panetta (D-CA) led a group of 25 Republicans and 25 Democrats on a letter Friday calling for pro-solar policies in future relief legislation. This bipartisan support is absolutely critical to our ability to get positive policies for solar included in recovery legislation.

Les Nelson Memorial. Please join NABCEP and CALSSA for a virtual memorial celebrating Les Nelson. As you know, Les played a pivotal role in the solar industry, volunteering his time and providing valuable guidance on many industry boards. On July 1st, please take a moment to remember him. Details are here.

Value Of Net Metering. It’s been sometime since we had a big and public fight on net metering. Over the years we’ve had value of solar studies and this one from Michigan shows once again that ratepayers benefit from their neighbors putting solar on their roof. The reality is that net metering is a benefit to all consumers and the solar industry is perfectly fine with the simplicity of one to one credit on the production. On the other hand, simplicity has always been the attribute that opponents of solar hate the most since it doesn’t confuse consumers. This may be a year that ‘net metering is a subsidy’ debate comes back, stay tuned. Careful to all my utility readers though, messing with net metering will only serve to expand and increase the adoption of storage, accelerating the loss of consumers to the rate base.

The Corporate Market. Yesterday there was a story about a 500MW buyer in Europe looking for assets and today Bank of America does a deal with NRG. Neither of these two things really gets me excited. What really needs to happen is 200 1MW customers getting together to do a deal. There should be so many off takers in the market that no developer has to ask “how will I get an offtaker for this project?”. Even better would be that the competition over projects drives the value of energy generation up in price instead of this never ending race to the bottom because the project must have someone on the other end of it.

A Favor. You know this year is hard on groups working on your behalf. CALSSA is trying to offset losses to revenue and we’re falling behind in the silent auction. Please help us raise another $10,000 by placing a bid right now. This is money well spent at your business. Furthermore, if you’re not a member, please join. If you are a member, please contact Carter at CALSSA to join the President’s circle. All of these business expenses are offset by your reduced travel and trade show budgets and our work at the Capitol hasn’t reduced.

Opinion

Best, Yann

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