6/6 Case of the Mondays 6 pack. I should have stayed in bed edition. "Research shows that public opposition to individual solar projects has increased in recent years, with one state, Missouri, even considering a ban on new large-scale solar development" 💡🔌 pv-magazine-usa.com/2026/06/09/w...

5/6 Case of the Mondays 6 pack. I should have stayed in bed edition. "Natural gas is a market-traded commodity, meaning data centers that gobble up lots of natural gas will naturally compete with other gas customers, increasing prices." 💡🔌 www.utilitydive.com/news/data-ce...

4/6 Case of the Mondays 6 pack. I should have stayed in bed edition. @solaranne.bsky.social brings us examples from CA, ME and MA. Maine "places retroactive charges on front-of-the-meter solar projects that are already operating or in development." Ouch! 💡🔌 pv-magazine-usa.com/2026/06/19/r...

3/6 Case of the Mondays 6 pack. I should have stayed in bed edition. "This is driving a reduction in deployable reserves, which are shrinking as forced outage rates increase, creating potential for tight operating conditions that can lead to system events” NERC"💡🔌 www.utilitydive.com/news/deploya...

2/6 Case of the Mondays 6 pack. I should have stayed in bed edition. "China controls about 85% of solar-manufacturing capacity & 80% of lithium-ion battery supply-chain production. Weakening America’s domestic market could deepen that dependence while surrendering jobs"💡🔌 www.tpr.org/podcast/the-...

1/6 Case of the Mondays 6 pack. Maybe I should have stayed in bed edition. "Complying with the DOE’s orders will require “substantial investment to support an inefficient and increasingly unreliable asset,” Michael Roeder, CenterPoint Energy" 💡🔌 www.utilitydive.com/news/doe-202...

3/3 3 for Thursday. I used to have a race shop in Willows (Home of the Honkers!) so this news caught my eye. Anything that helps out my ex-neighbors and the planet deserves a post by me. 💡🔌 driveteslacanada.ca/news/tesla-w...

2/3 3 for Thursday. I haven't posted about perovskite lately (kidding). “Beyond the efficiency gains, the combination also reduces resistive losses, removes the need for copper interconnects, & improves resilience under partial shading"💡🔌 pv-magazine-usa.com/2026/06/18/o...

1/3 3 for Thursday. I mentioned the Day Ahead Market the other day here Tapa Peshin of PCI Energy shares his thoughts on the first month. Very wonky but fascinating...💡🔌 www.utilitydive.com/news/caiso-e...

3/3 Weekend Wanderings. From the prolific @jeffstjohn.bsky.social Of the 1067 requests for vouchers from California’s HVIP, 965 were for Tesla Semis. "If delivered by the end of this year, it could make up about a 1/3 of heavy-duty truck sales in the state." 💡🔌 www.canarymedia.com/articles/cle...

2/3 Weekend Wanderings. Deep read about the closing of the Valero refinery "Benicia’s largest employer & the source of nearly 20% of its tax revenue – could have a catastrophic impact on the city’s financial stability." The big picture has local implications.💡🔌 www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

1/3 Weekend Wanderings. I see so many of these articles but this one really caught my eye. It also has a paragraph explaining how the markets are working together which bodes well for the new day ahead martket 💡🔌 www.utilitydive.com/news/califor...

3/3 Info Thursday. Do I have a perovskite fetish? I am sure the researchers at Nanyang Technological University and Professor Annalisa Bruno would say 'No'. Even though this is my 10th perovskite post. 🔟😊💡🔌 www.pv-magazine-australia.com/2026/05/21/r...

2/3 Info Thursday. @coloradosun.bsky.social's Michael Booth is The Sun’s environment writer, and co-author of The Sun’s weekly climate and health newsletter The Temperature. Here he looks how Colorado is doing compared to similar population states. 💡🔌 coloradosun.com/2026/06/02/c...

1/3 Info Thursday. @danmccarthy.bsky.social has a whole series of these. @canarymedia.com's Chart of the week is one of my go to sites to learn in new and interesting facts in a very accessible format. 💡🔌 www.canarymedia.com/articles/win...

3/3 Last law item. "SB26-003...marks the 1st time any U.S. state has set specific targets to recover critical minerals from EV batteries. By 2031...recycling companies must reclaim 50% of the lithium inside an EV battery, then improve to an 80% recovery rate by 2035." 💡🔌 www.cpr.org/2026/06/04/c...

2/3 State Senator Scott Weiner: “The cost of electricity has risen to absurd levels, and plug-in solar is an easy way families can lower costs”. We agree. We will follow this topic in an article soon. 💡🔌 pv-magazine-usa.com/2026/05/20/c...

1/3 I normally avoid law topics. But this hits the Duck Curve & NEM3: "According to the CPUC...over the last decade, PG&E, SCE, & SDG&E have raised customer rates by 110%, 90%, and 82%, respectively. Despite relatively flat electricity usage across the state" 💡🔌 pv-magazine-usa.com/2026/06/10/c...

Nice Milestone...1 Million Solar customers and I am one of them. As we used to say at Apple in the 'oughts': "It's a start". 💡🔌 dailyenergyinsider.com/news/52595-p...

5/5 Bottleneck Thursday - Supply Chain (all of it): "The key challenge for solar this decade is no longer demand or technology, but whether the industry can build and deliver quickly enough." 💡🔌 pv-magazine-usa.com/2026/04/28/s...

4/5 Bottleneck Thursday - Reality: "Aurora modeled what adding 10 GW of data center load in ERCOT without adding new transmission lines would do to the grid, and the consequences were stark: quintupling congestion costs and spiking power prices by 34%." 💡🔌 www.latitudemedia.com/news/how-muc...

3/5 Bottleneck Thursday - Gas Turbines: "GE Vernova’s gas turbine backlog reached 100 GW in the first quarter, up sharply from 83 GW at the end of 2025." 💡🔌 www.utilitydive.com/news/ge-vern...

2/5 Bottleneck Thursday - Sales Model: "overseas manufacturers may have inventory but lack US sales channels, so they must rely on regional distributors...negotiations are typically conducted via email, leading to long messaging threads & complex spreadsheets." 💡🔌 pv-magazine-usa.com/2026/03/26/p...

1/5 Bottleneck Thursday - Transformers. This will help: Philipp Gau, director at Kaufmann Electric: “We no longer design transformers for each project. We use a design that fits about 80% of our projects. This makes us much more flexible." 💡🔌 pv-magazine-usa.com/2026/02/27/g...

3/3 Farm news. "By replacing aging turbines with modern technology at existing sites, the United States could more than double its current onshore wind capacity and electricity generation without requiring new land" 💡🔌 www.quittingcarbonmedia.com/a-repowered-...

2/3 Farm news. "Unlike traditional crops that are subject to unpredictable weather and global market shifts, solar leases offer a predictable income stream. Such reliability is a rare commodity in agriculture today." 💡🔌 pv-magazine-usa.com/2026/04/30/s...

1/3 Farm news. "At a time when many Utah farmers say rising costs are squeezing margins, Rancher Greg Kesler said the solar income has provided a critical buffer — one that can help at-risk ranches across the state, even in fast-growing areas, like Cache County." 💡🔌 www.sltrib.com/news/2026/05...

3/3 Optimist Monday. Kate Crosby energy manager: “The more we plug in batteries to the grid, the less we use peaker plants. They will help to stabilize the grid, help to reduce the cost of electricity for all ratepayers, & they’ll help make the grid cleaner.” 💡🔌 www.canarymedia.com/articles/ev-...

2/3 Optimist Monday. Julian Spector @canarymedia.com "EIA expects ERCOT will produce 99 billion kilowatt-hours of solar power in 2027, up 27% from 2026. At that point, the upstart industry will have left its well-established coal competition in the dust." 💡🔌 www.canarymedia.com/articles/sol...

1/3 Optimist Monday. Darren Van’t Hof, CEO of SEIA “Energy storage’s remarkable first quarter only underscores the fundamental values of this technology: it’s insulated from fuel price shocks, keeps electricity costs down, and strengthens grid reliability” 💡🔌 www.utilitydive.com/news/us-ener...

3/3 Fictitious Friday. Alan Knapp, plant ecologist at Colorado State noted "there’s a list of worries about what happens underneath solar panels — like toxins leaching into the soil or metal & silica shards impacting crops & most are unfounded." Um...yeah 💡🔌 www.canarymedia.com/articles/sol...?

2/3 Fictitious Friday Republican state Sen. Lois Kolkhorst: "Nobody wants the renewables anyway in their districts, and now we find out it’s littered with foreign enemy countries” Um...yeah. 💡🔌 www.eenews.net/articles/tex...

1/3 Fictitious Friday Aurora Energy Research: “increasing battery charging demand is raising mid-day prices” in the CAISO electricity market region." "Also Battery competition has also lowered the rates at which electricity can be sold." Um...yeah💡🔌 pv-magazine-usa.com/2026/04/08/b...

3/3 EDAM not the cheese. So far so good. "Market data platform Noreva noted in a Monday briefing that on launch day, “day-ahead prices at PacifiCorp hubs traced a mild duck curve, but notably more subdued than CAISO hubs.” Curtailing + Duck Curve - more soon.💡🔌 www.utilitydive.com/news/edam-is...

2/3 EDAM not the cheese. "Michael Wilding, VP of energy supply management at PacifiCorp, estimated that the company then satisfied about 3 to 5% of its generation & demand through broader market purchases. Under the day-ahead market, that number will be 100%."🔌💡 insideclimatenews.org/news/0105202...

1/3 EDAM not the cheese. May 1st news from @caiso.com. "For the solar & storage industries, this expanded footprint means excess renewable energy that might have been curtailed in CA can now be scheduled for export to neighboring states where demand is high." 🔌💡 pv-magazine-usa.com/2026/05/01/w...

3/3 Pet Projects. @mcresearch.bsky.social we'll be keeping an eye on this one... "The plan “includes 12 reconductoring projects that increase transmission capacity without having to build new transmission from scratch" 🔌💡 www.utilitydive.com/news/caiso-r...

2/3 Pet Projects. @mcresearch.bsky.social favorite Joby has some big news. "Air taxi manufacturer Joby Aviation began a series of weeklong demonstration flights yesterday in NYC, departing from JFK & touching down at several heliports in Manhattan. "🔌💡 www.smartcitiesdive.com/news/joby-av...

1/3 Pet projects. "A UC study estimates that covering approximately 4,000 km of canals could save 63 billion gallons of water annually, equivalent to irrigating 50,000 acres of farmland or meeting the residential water demand of more than 2 million people." 🔌💡 pv-magazine-usa.com/2026/05/04/s...

3/3 Innovation Monday. "Antora has likened its setup to an enormous toaster. Clean electricity runs through a large resistance heater to warm big blocks of solid carbon to extremely high temperatures for days on end." That heat is then used to generate steam. 🔌💡 www.canarymedia.com/articles/ene...

2/3 Innovation Monday. Go Aggies! @utahstate.bsky.social Roads that charge electric vehicles while driving! "In one version of the tech, rubber transmitter pads are placed 6 inches under the asphalt, charging any receiving car above it." Exciting stuff.🔌💡 www.ksl.com/article/news...

1/3 Innovation Monday. "The core mission of ECF is to support hardware developers through the costly transition between lab research & industrial-scale production" The facility will have the capacity to produce at least 10K cells per year. 🔌💡 pv-magazine-usa.com/2026/04/30/e...

3/3 Partnerships. "The plan, which will require no down payment, offers an electricity cost of 8 cents per kWh (before distribution utility charges of 5 to 6 cents per kWh), with a $45 per month subscription charge for the battery." 🔌💡 pv-magazine-usa.com/2026/04/24/o...

2/3 Partnerships. "Rivian will provide more than 100 2nd-life EV battery packs to Redwood Materials. They’ll be repurposed for an energy storage system initially providing 10 MWh of energy to the factory to help reduce utility costs & grid demand during peak."🔌💡 www.utilitydive.com/news/rivian-...

1/3 Partnerships. Very excited about a perovskite product making it to market. "The Aurora hybrid modules are expected to operate with an efficiency of 28%, enabling up to 30% more power density than silicon-only modules." 🔌💡 pv-magazine-usa.com/2026/04/23/m...

3/3 Or you could be a lineman...⚠️ Warning not for the squeamish. 🔌💡 www.esquire.com/news-politic...

2/3 From Danielle Pirrone of ULE Group is bullish about Electrical contractor futures: "Utility-scale solar and battery storage sites place more pressure on planning, sequencing, and coordination than smaller installations. 🔌💡 pv-magazine-usa.com/2026/04/29/e...

1/3 Michael Burrows of UbiQD, "As solar companies become more vertically integrated, materials teams are moving closer to the center of product strategy...success will depend on engineers who can think across physics, chemistry, & manufacturing simultaneously" 🔌💡 pv-magazine-usa.com/2026/04/06/w...

There are coal seam fires burning in hundreds, possibly thousands, of places around the world, many have been burning for hundreds of years. One in Australia has been burning for over 5000 years.

3/3 Optimist Friday. Via Alison F. Takemura @canarymedia.com sends the story of Crystal Bright. "Across the U.S., gasoline prices have spiked to $4.50 per gallon on average." To which Ms. Bright says “I have no idea what gas costs, thank goodness"! 🔌💡 www.canarymedia.com/articles/ele...