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Speedway Solar | Gigafactory Bonanza | Canary Media Launch | Clean Power Hour Ep.39 May 04, 2021

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We launched a new segment on the Clean Power Hour today - Project of the Week. Today on the Clean Power Hour, Ep.39: 200 gigafactories are being built globally; Canary Media Launch Paying coal plants to close?; Mars helicopter is on the ground and charging; Will Tesla deliver 1M EVs in 2021? And much much more solar, storage and clean energy news with my co-host John Weaver.

SpaceX SN11 goes BOOM, and then flying chunks of metal
https://twitter.com/Erdayastronaut/status/1378039464266719232

200 Gigafactories totalling 3.4 TWh/year of manufacturing capacity
https://www.benchmarkminerals.com/membership/global-battery-arms-race-200-gigafactories-china-leads/

Canary Media Launches
https://rmi.org/press-release/rmi-launches-canary-media-independent-energy-journalism-powered-by-former-greentech-media-staff-and-david-roberts/

Speedway solar, project of the week: Project of the week - Speedway Solar near Joliet IL - 3 MW DC / 2 MW AC SAT with CES and SRE

List of electric cars from 1907
https://www.lowtechmagazine.com/overview-of-early-electric-cars.html

Mars solar powered helicopter moving along, on the ground officially, ‘takeoff is now slated for no earlier than April 11, with data arriving on Earth on April 12‘.
https://twitter.com/NASAJPL/status/1379095247192346628

Caterpillar unveils an all-electric 26-ton excavator with a giant 300 kWh battery pack
https://electrek.co/2019/01/29/caterpillar-electric-excavator-giant-battery-pack/amp/

Pickup truck covered with solar panels from Meyer Burger
https://renewablesnow.com/news/german-researchers-couple-pv-to-high-voltage-system-to-extend-ev-range-736652/

Today, we’re talking about a moron - ‘what happens at night?
https://www.northcentralpa.com/news/sen-yaw-criticizes-pa-s-new-solar-energy-initiative-what-happens-at-night/article_791606c8-8bd3-11eb-8713-bb92cd9fffa5.html

Induction stove cooktop, ‘I cook at 400 watts, takes me ~20 minutes, at 22¢/kWh - that's 2.67¢ of electricity per meal’ - did the math wrong here, because I used 20¢/kWh (but close enough) https://twitter.com/SolarInMASS/status/1378505647231279108

Germany & Kansas paying coal plants to close
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-germany-hardcoal-auction-idUSKBN2BO58B

Tesla is gonna pump a million cars this year. Q1 times 4 is 740k units. Q1 times 4 with 20% quarterly growth is 993k units.
https://ir.tesla.com/press-release/tesla-q1-2021-vehicle-production-deliveries

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Community Solar in New Mexico! | Kite Power | Tesla Jacks Solar Roof Pricing | CPH Ep.40 May 02, 2021

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Today on the Clean Power Hour with John Weaver and Tim Montague | Ep.40:
Canadian Solar mass produces 665 W module (solar panel)
Jobs Act break down
New Mexico now has community solar
Kite power is approaching commercial deployment
Tesla jacks the prices of solar roof
Solar for 1.04¢/kWh in Saudi Arabia
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Tesla increases solar roof pricing for people already with signed contracts
https://electrek.co/2021/04/11/tesla-hikes-solar-roof-price-on-contracts-signed-over-a-year-ago/
Canadian Solar 665
https://solarindustrymag.com/canadian-solar-begins-mass-production-of-665-w-modules?utm_medium=email&utm_source=LNH+04-15-2021&utm_campaign=SI+Latest+News+Headlines
Project of the week: *Saudi Arabia 1.04/kWh record price, but there are dynamics, but still record
https://pv-magazine-usa.com/2021/04/12/saudi-arabias-second-pv-tender-draws-world-record-low-bid-of-0-0104-kwh/
Jobs Act cliff notes
https://www-extensibleenergy-com.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/www.extensibleenergy.com/amp/biden-s-infrastructure-plan-for-solar
New Mexico has become the 21st state to enable community solar, following Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham's (D) signing Senate Bill 84 into law.
https://pv-magazine-usa.com/2021/04/06/new-mexico-gains-a-community-solar-program/
SkySails Power - nice video of how kite power works
https://youtu.be/DwiXTye681M
*'SK will pay 1 trillion won in cash and 1 trillion in royalties to the rival as compensation for its theft of lithium-ion battery technologies. LG, in exchange, will drop all legal action against SK both in Korea and abroad.'
http://www.koreaherald.com/view.php?ud=20210411000202
Here’s a a bit of a story on the behind the scene stuff - https://www.ajc.com/politics/politics-blog/how-bitter-korean-rivals-settled-a-rift-that-threatened-georgia-battery-plant/B7J76F3Q7NGJ5EUXVCMY2P2LOA/
*“If the US is to achieve a carbon free grid by 2035 then it would need to at the very least add around 70GW of wind and solar a year from 2025 onwards,” said @Tomrrees’
https://www.pv-tech.org/us-solar-and-wind-acceleration-not-enough-to-meet-bidens-climate-targets/
A solar power plant so big, they’re building a factory to feed it
https://reneweconomy.com.au/sun-cable-submits-plans-for-gigawatt-scale-solar-manufacturing-plant-in-darwin/
Plus a video of what hardware they’re using and how it installs:
https://twitter.com/5B_Tech/status/1351706649770266625
*'Wyoming sets aside $$$ to sue states for their renewable energy policies. The bill allocates $1.2 million for lawsuits against states with regulations that impede Wyoming’s ability to export coal or force early closures of coal-fired plants in the state'
https://www.denverpost.com/2021/04/14/wyoming-targets-states-colorado-on-coal-renewable-energy/
California breaks peak solar number, add roughly 8GWdc of rooftop, that makes 21 GWdc of solar
https://twitter.com/JonathanPapai/status/1381716057984004096
Baby born and using the solar powered baby warmer at the Bakdil's solar powered public health centre (PHC)in spark hill, Meghalaya
https://twitter.com/Harishhande/status/1381010062722801665
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Community Solar in PA | Solar Highways | Viking Solar | Clean Power Hour Ep.16 May 02, 2021

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Community Solar is growing in Pennsylvania! Maybe
America’s highways are an significant opportunity for solar PV
The Vikings are coming for your hydro and floating solar opportunity
Tax revenue from community and utility scale solar is helping rural communities
It’s Day 10 of the Solar 500 Challenge - give us a thumbs up and please subscribe to the Channel! Share the channel with your friends and please comment - we love to hear from our viewers.
See Ep 132 of energy transition show re Solar forecast
1. $4.2 million in land lease payments for current 1 GW of solar capacity in the pipeline -
https://commercialsolarguy.com/2020/10/19/community-solar-in-pennsylvania-offering-4-2-million-in-land-lease-payments-a-year/
2. Scatec - big solar developer - buys hydroelectric company (image the rolodex) - https://www.pv-tech.org/news/scatec-solar-to-acquire-hydropower-developer-touts-floating-solar-potential
3. America’s highways have significant solar potential
https://pv-magazine-usa.com/2020/10/13/americas-highways-have-significant-solar-potential/
4. Meyer Berger in the factory video - https://amp-zdf-de.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/amp.zdf.de/nachrichten/heute-in-deutschland/im-osten-geht-die-sonne-wieder-auf-100.html
A corollary - list of 5 potenal large volume module manufacturers in Europe, plus this solar cell manufacturer, -https://www.greentechmedia.com/articles/read/5-would-be-giga-scale-solar-manufacturers
5. ‘'panels installed in Europe in 1982...One of the encapsulate recipes retained 95% of the power they had 35 years' 'printed circuit board is large sheet of foil bonded to solar cell, allows ~85% of the metal (silver) on the solar cell to be eliminated'--50 year warranty-- https://www.solarpowerworldonline.com/2020/10/everything-we-know-about-the-newest-u-s-solar-panel-manufacturer-violet-power/
6. Fluence buys AMS - smarter solar plus storage - right now I’m talking with STEM on a project - below a single shipping container seems a financial challenge - https://www.greentechmedia.com/articles/read/storage-supplier-fluence-acquires-ams-for-market-dispatch-software
7. ‘One reason solar remains so popular in states like NC: new projects drive a nearly **2,000%** avg increase in annual tax revenue per parcel - a major new source of funding for rural, economically distressed counties to invest in local services.’ https://twitter.com/tylerhnorris/status/1316400000583303175
8. List of largest US solar EPCs - https://www.pv-magazine.com/2020/10/14/swinerton-was-the-largest-solar-epc-contractor-outside-china-in-2019/
9. Weekly update - Solar spot pricing - https://twitter.com/SolarInMASS/status/1316370426038280194

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China Record 2.2 GW of Solar | Green Bonds Exceed 1 Trillion $$ | Clean Power Hour Ep.14 May 02, 2021

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#Tesla over the air update
https://twitter.com/SolarInMASS/status/1312500497819951105
$200 billion worth of green bonds have been issued in 2020 thus far - $50 billion in a strong September. This represents a 12% increase compared with the first nine months of 2019. And in total $1 trillion have been sold since 2007.'
https://about.bnef.com/blog/record-month-shoots-green-bonds-past-trillion-dollar-mark/
China plots course for net zero by 2060
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/oct/05/china-plan-net-zero-emissions-2060-clean-technology
Largest 2.2 GW solar and storage goes live in China - very high DCAC rating, and a connection to the UVHDC network - is this straight solar panels to a transformer/controller to grid? No inverters?
https://www.pv-magazine.com/2020/10/01/worlds-largest-solar-plant-goes-online-in-china/
UHV in China related to the 2.2 GW Solar
https://www.pv-magazine.com/2019/11/29/300-mw-of-new-solar-for-chinas-800-kv-uhv-power-transmission-project/
“In case you were wondering, the sun never sets - and the wind never stops blowing. Those who suggest this mostly haven't left their local place of residence. We have two killer apps that would make wind+solar+hydro+nuclear run our planet - batteries and power lines. Batteries are coming, and power lines might or might not get there in time - and the battery manufacturers are just fine with that. It would be smarter if we did both, but we the species isn't always smart. We do have the knowledge though, and we do have the tools.”
https://commercialsolarguy.com/2020/10/05/if-you-build-transmission-the-solar-plus-storage-will-comission/
Vertical solar installation
https://www.domain.com.au/news/melbourne-apartment-building-fitted-with-vertical-solar-panels-in-an-australian-first-990028/
Solar+pears - 'solar modules placed at a height of 4.6 meters - the height of the agricultural machinery that is commonly used for pear trees. 40% transparent backsheets and conventional, equally spaced 156 x 156 mm silicon cells with 21% efficiency.'
https://www.pv-magazine.com/2020/10/02/agrivoltaics-for-pear-orchards/
First California, now New York is talking it - who’s next? MA? Hawaii?
https://electrek.co/2020/10/05/new-york-bill-ban-new-ice-cars-2035/
Germany saw 52.9% from renewables - personally, I’d prefer they remove the biomass and add the nuclear - adding 3% - but also, that means renewables plus nuclear = 65.5% of German electricity was arguably CO2
https://reneweconomy.com.au/renewables-deliver-over-half-of-german-electricity-in-first-nine-months-coal-plunges-83744/
“For any kind of PV system repower or removal and re-installation project, leaving as much of the racking, combiner boxes, and existing conduit/wiring in place can prevent the risk of component damage. Pulling all new wire is best, but often unnecessary. An insulation resistance test should be performed as part of any re-commissioning process.”
https://www.linkedin.com/posts/cesarbarbosa925_specialproject-bestpractices-timeismoney-activity-6717932900953796608-ne_6/

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Earth Day is Elon Musk to the Moon Day | Clean Power Hour Ep.41 May 02, 2021

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Today on the Clean Power Hour Ep.41:
Elon Musk Beats Bezos to the Moon
Solar Powered Robot Helicopter Flies on Mars
Solar Powered Greenhouses Sprouting Asparagus in France
HVDC Powerline Crossing North Sea - How about the Earth?
Electricity Utilities Pushing for 80% Emissions Cut by 2030
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**HVDC powerline completed that connects German wind and Norweigen hydroelectric power, pictures inside building cool
“'623 km long; 1,400 MW capacity at ± 525 kV; Offshore: 516 km submarine cable; Onshore: 54 km underground cable (Büsum - Wilster/Schleswig-Holstein) and 53 km overhead line (Vollesfjord - Tonstad/NO)'’
https://www.tennet.eu/news/detail/nordlink-the-green-cable-between-germany-and-norway-is-now-fully-in-operation/
Global grid:
https://spectrum.ieee.org/energy/the-smarter-grid/lets-build-a-global-power-grid
**Video of the flight of the ingenuity
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wMnOo2zcjXA
**NASA chooses SpaceX to take us to the moon again… Artemis in Elon style
https://youtu.be/y-sA3R4MWjA
Musk beats Bezos for Artemis moon lander
https://youtu.be/wyM8cs4zh0Y
**Utilities pushing for 80% emissions cut by 80%
https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/power-companies-urge-biden-implement-policies-cut-emissions-80-by-2030-2021-04-17/
**French photovoltaic greenhouse delivers 3.1 GWh and 4 tons/hectare of asparagus in one year
https://www.pv-magazine.com/2021/04/01/french-photovoltaic-greenhouse-delivers-3-1-gwh-and-4-tons-hectare-of-asparagus-in-one-year/
Trina Vertex pitch deck, notice image at end of shipping container perfectly filled
https://commercialsolarguy.com/2020/05/29/solar-panel-innovation-is-much-more-than-efficiency/
Pennsylvania solar lease article
https://commercialsolarguy.com/2021/04/09/solar-farm-land-lease-rates-pennsylvania-qa/
Largest off grid Solar n Storage 30 MW by Baywa Re https://www.miningglobal.com/sustainability-1/b2gold-commissions-worlds-largest-grid-solar-plant
The Story of DE Shaw and Ranger Power in Michigan; Yahoo Finance: D. E. Shaw Renewable Investments Completes Financing of 79-Megawatt Assembly Solar III Project.
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/d-e-shaw-renewable-investments-120000506.html
Cool wind turbine installation time lapse video
https://twitter.com/hcanercan/status/1383341236845629441
Wind power cost projections
https://twitter.com/SolarInMASS/status/1383006043597205505
A white, so white, it actually extracts heat from a structure,
https://phys.org/news/2021-04-whitest-hereand-coolest-literally.html
Robotic solar panel installer, old video, but still shows some weird potentials. Reminds me of the 5B product from last week’s show.
https://www.linkedin.com/posts/akhil-subash-007_automation-solar-ugcPost-6788167314241032192-yHQX/
US’ first battery powered train, replaces diesel trains that run on non electrified tracks
https://electrek.co/2021/04/20/egeb-long-island-rail-road-tests-uss-first-battery-powered-trains/
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There’s a new social media platform to stop climate chaos - "We don’t have time" by Ingmar Rentzhog
Unions getting behind Biden’s jobs act plans
Solar+wind powered hydrogen space rockets in Australia
World’s largest ocean turbine - that looks like a Starwars X-Wing fighter
Connecting solar from Morocco to the UK at 6.7 cents per kWh - Epic HVDC
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EP 42 - April 27, 2021
Today on the Solar Podcast Ep. 42 (Apr. 28, 2021)
New social media for good… we don't have time
https://www.wedonthavetime.org/
***World’s largest water turbine - looks like a spaceship from Star Wars
http://www.emec.org.uk/about-us/our-tidal-clients/orbital-marine-power/
***Project of the week - first solar power project in New Bedford historical region. Black panels, internal wiring, nothing visible from street level
https://twitter.com/SolarInMASS/status/1385452264098238465
***Hydrogen-powered space rockets are coming to Queensland
https://reneweconomy.com.au/hydrogen-powered-space-rockets-are-coming-to-queensland/
***Submarine cable to connect 10.5 GW wind-solar complex in Morocco to the UK grid
“Xlinks is planning to inject power into the UK for a CfD price of around £0.048 ($0.067)/kWh, which would be a bit more than around £0.040/kWh for current off-shore wind tenders and much less than the £0.0925/kWh for the controversial Hinkley Point C nuclear power plant”
https://www.pv-magazine.com/2021/04/22/submarine-cable-to-connect-10-5-gw-wind-solar-complex-in-morocco-to-the-uk-grid/
***FirstEnergy used customer money to bribe politicians to screw over customers.
https://twitter.com/EnergyandPolicy/status/1385663056001306625
***Volvo Group Q1 2021 sold fully Electric Vehicles:
https://twitter.com/MagnusKarlstrom/status/1385128680222040064
***A tweet from the Ohio AFLCIO union showing support for Biden’s clean energy plans. Other unions have said similarly - this is cool.
https://twitter.com/ohioaflcio/status/1385189479946887169
Fraunhofer ISE achieves 35.9% efficiency for III-V triple-junction solar cell based on silicon
https://www.pv-magazine.com/2021/04/23/fraunhofer-ise-achieves-35-9-efficiency-for-iii-v-triple-junction-solar-cell-based-on-silicon/
History tweet -Happy birthday silicon solar cells!
Bell Labs unveiled the world's 1st practical silicon solar cell, developed by Fuller, Chapin & Pearson #OTD 1954. This first PV cell was only 4% efficient & cost $286/W.
https://twitter.com/paulcoxon/status/989112588800700416
Plus cool video that shows scientists hand manufacturing solar cells:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3I1JhyOahIw
BIPV solar panel - interesting part is where they offer the standard 30 year power production warranty, but offer a 50 year building material warranty
https://www.pv-magazine.com/2021/04/23/hevel-solar-unveils-22-3-efficient-heterojunction-bipv-solar-module/
Democratic lawmakers on Wednesday unveiled legislation that would invest $25 billion to convert the nation’s fleet of gasoline- and diesel-powered school buses to electric vehicles, building on a component of President Joe Biden’s $2.3 trillion infrastructure plan to improve children’s health.
https://www.kxan.com/news/political-news/dems-push-25b-to-electrify-school-buses-a-biden-priority/
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Gunter Erfurt, Ardes Johnson - Meyer Burger High Performance Solar Modules | Clean Power Hour Ep.43 May 02, 2021

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Gunter Erfurt, CEO and Ardes Johnson, President and GM, Americas, Meyer Burger join us for a special episode of the Clean Power Hour. We explore this new technology launch and the storied history of Meyer Burger in the solar industry. We liken Meyer Burger to the Swiss Army Knife of Solar.
High Performance, Low Carbon Solar Module Data Sheets available here:
https://www.meyerburger.com/de/installateure#c1298
Slide Show from the Investor's call: https://www.meyerburger.com/fileadmin/user_upload/Downloads/Praesentationen/Meyer-Burger-Corporate-Presentation-April-2021-EN.pdf
Features:
Industry-leading solar modules based on patented Swiss technology produced in Germany with an optimized additional yield of up to 20 percent compared to standard products;
Three different versions available: white, black and glass-glass in standard size for roof systems and weighing less than 20 kilograms (44 lbs);
Solar energy rethought according to the motto 'The best. From here. For tomorrow ': industry-leading energy yield and outstanding optics, proprietary technology with a local manufacturing strategy and a consistently sustainable product
Solar modules can now be ordered from wholesalers, sales start-up contracts have been concluded with well-known partners
Digital services for customers via smartphone app
Sales focus on the markets of Germany, Switzerland, Austria, the Benelux region, Italy, France, Poland, Great Britain, Nordic countries and the USA
Strengthened by experienced solar sales expert Sven Stoffers as sales manager from May
Opening of the German production facilities for solar cells and modules in May, start of production in June, start of delivery to customers in July 2021
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World's Largest Rooftop PV Array | Clean Power Hour Ep.15 Apr 28, 2021

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Largest Rooftop Solar Project - 18 MW in Netherlands
Sunrun - Vivant merger closes making the combined company 25 percent of the residential solar market
King coal is falling to Crown Prince solar and storage
Two companies - Nextera and 8Minute Energy - have nearly 100 GW of wind, solar and storage in the pipeline
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'The king of electricity’: Solar outshines other power sources, “cheapest electricity in history”
https://www.aljazeera.com/economy/2020/10/13/the-king-of-electricity-solar-outshines-other-power-sources
https://twitter.com/CarbonBrief/status/1315919700442963968
Solar-plus-storage replaces coal plant in New Mexico, makes carbon-capture retrofit moot
https://pv-magazine-usa.com/2020/10/12/solar-plus-storage-replaces-coal-plant-in-new-mexico-makes-carbon-capture-retrofit-moot/
Almost 100 GW from 8minute & NextEra
https://commercialsolarguy.com/2020/10/12/two-companies-with-nearly-100-gw-of-wind-solar-and-storage-in-the-pipeline/
Next2Sun - vertical solar racking with bifacial - cool picture here: https://twitter.com/meyerburger/status/1315680368020914182
https://www.pv-magazine.com/2020/10/08/agrivoltaic-project-with-vertically-mounted-bifacial-panels-goes-online-in-germany/ - Solar+hay harvest in the first cut, silage harvest in the second cut, & supplemented by animal grazing - '4.1 MWp, 14 hectares. ~11,000 n-type PERT bifacial 380W solar modules, Jolywood, 5,800 vertical racks from @Next2Sun'
'builder Array Technologies is going public on the Nasdaq exchange and has set its IPO terms. The world’s No. 2 tracker builder plans to raise $675 million by offering 33.8 million shares at a price range of $19 to $21'
https://pv-magazine-usa.com/2020/10/08/solar-tracker-builder-array-technologies-sets-its-terms-in-largest-solar-ipo-of-2020/
Floating solar nearing price parity with land-based US solar
https://www.pv-magazine.com/2020/10/07/floating-solar-nearing-price-parity-with-land-based-us-solar/
https://www.pv-magazine.com/2020/10/12/norwegian-floating-pv-specialist-ocean-sun-plans-ipo/
CleanTechnica: DOE Says Combining Floating Solar With Hydroelectric Could Provide 40% Of The World’s Energy Needs.
https://cleantechnica.com/2020/10/05/doe-says-combining-floating-solar-with-hydroelectric-could-provide-40-of-the-worlds-energy-needs/
https://twitter.com/SolarInMASS/status/1313535938816081921 ←-
18 mw of rooftop solar! Largest Rooftop Solar System in Europe Goes Online … on Audi Factory.
https://cleantechnica.com/2020/10/09/largest-rooftop-solar-system-in-europe-goes-online-on-audi-factory/
Check out my twitter images extracted from file - (east west racking, cool looking combiner/inverter section, gigantic…each subection of modules is a soccer field)
Solar Land use image - we could power 100% electricity with less land used than coal alone
https://twitter.com/joeljean9/status/1315045376123002880
Model Y structural battery
https://electrek.co/2020/10/07/elon-musk-tesla-structural-battery-cells-model-y-giga-berlin/

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Rolling Blackouts in CA | Rewiring America | Clean Power Hour Ep.7 | Montague & Weaver Apr 28, 2021

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Clean Power Hour with Tim Montague & John Weaver
Ep. 7 - published Sept 1, 2020
**Rolling Blackouts in CA due to extreme heat wave… necessary or evil
https://pv-magazine-usa.com/2020/08/17/californias-fossil-fuel-plants-failed-us-not-solar/
**Rewiring America: A positive, comprehensive, and inclusive vision for a better future. Tech entrepreneurs Saul Griffith with Sam Calish and Laura Fraser have created a ‘Field Manual for the Climate Fight’ which is a guide to decarbonizing the entire US economy. It has a sister Jobs Report: Mobilizing for a zero carbon America:
Jobs, jobs, jobs, and more jobs. Shout out to the Energy Gang @jigar shah @stephen lacey @katherine hamilton for covering the story (The Economic Case for Electrifying Everything) | https://www.rewiringamerica.org/
**Using a helicopter to get hardware onto the roof -
https://www.pv-magazine.com/2020/08/20/airlifting-pv-modules-for-ci-solar-projects/
“a cost benefit analysis was made and the helicopter scenario ended up being not only competitive but also enabled the whole system to be lifted to all 12 sub roofs (and various mechanical plant decks) within the space of eight hours. Hartley estimated the same undertaking with cranes would have taken more than three days, and caused “extensive traffic management, and thus increase disruption to the public and staff.”
**LS Power Energizes Largest Battery Storage Project in the World, The 250 MW Gateway Project in California - will be 250/250 MWh by end of month, and 250/750 by next summer, before expanding - potentially and eventually - toward 250/2000 MWh.
https://www.greentechmedia.com/articles/read/ls-power-energizes-worlds-biggest-battery-near-san-diego-just-in-time-for-heatwave | (link to press release with cool time lapse video)
**Regular article on bifacial that gives out two interesting pieces of information - first the cart shown here. Bifacial is almost equal in price to standard modules. And second, this author sees up to a 39% bifacial boost in optimized conditions. I’ve never seen a number that high. https://twitter.com/SolarInMASS/status/1296076463146504194
**Article working on right now - Tesla energy has released a research paper - “Diagnosing and correcting anode-free cell failure via electrolyte and morphological analysis” Imagine if we could get twice the energy from EV batteries than today. It would transform transportation. That’s what the Tesla Skunworks is up to. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41560-020-0668-8 -
How the Energy Storage Industry Responded to the Arizona Battery Fire…
We discussed on Ep. 4.
Greentech Media News: How the Energy Storage Industry Responded to the Arizona Battery Fire. https://www.greentechmedia.com/articles/read/arizona-battery-fire-already-prompted-safety-improvements-in-grid-storage
Ojjo (www.ojjo.com) takes on utility scale tracker foundation market. 30 GW of runway under contract in utility market nationally | https://pv-magazine-usa.com/2020/08/13/zep-founder-jack-west-returns-with-the-future-of-solar-foundations/
SPI Goes Virtual
Solar Power Events says SPI, ESI, and North America Smart Energy Week 2020 will be completely virtual. The leading solar industry trade show exhibit and networking event has gone 100% virtual thanks to the Coronovirus epidemic. It’s a good thing and if you want to mix and mingle with the movers and shakers of solar, join the fray! ----
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The Machine That Builds The Machine | Clean Power Hour Ep.13 Apr 28, 2021

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Today (Sept. 30, 2020) we break down Tesla Battery Day and cover the latest in solar and storage news:
John Weaver Bought a Tesla Model Y!
Jigar Shah of generate capital is coming on the Solar Podcast Oct 6
Battery day recap
“Waze” for the power grid could help unlock 500 GW of renewables
Array Technologies going public - oh yea!
Maine gets into the solar game
Age of renewable energy majors… Orsted goes long on solar
China peaking emissions prior to 2030 means an average of ~250 GW of solar per year by 2060
Floating wind+hydrogen
Walmart Canada orders 130 Tesla Semis, Electrek
Hornsdale big battery by Tesla delivers record profit
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