Official data is in today, and American solar power remained near a record high in August, with generation up 25% compared to last year!

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Here's an awesome guide to navigating the changes in federal clean energy tax cuts after passage of the Republicans' budget bill, from the NYU Tax Law Center: taxlawcenter.org/blog/navigat... 🔌💡

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Quite amazing...the US and China are undergoing the energy transition at roughly the same pace.

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We are pleased to announce an experiment intended to stimulate academic discussion and exchange, centered on papers published in Econometrica 1/5

A typical photovoltaic module sold in 2024 was mono TOPCon with 22.7% efficiency, at a price below $0.10/W. A typical solar module sold in 2012 was multi AlBSF with efficiency of 15.4% and a price of about $0.87/W.

The EV/hybrid transition is continuing in the US. Greater model availability seems to be driving sales.

Here’s a crazy fact for you: Spain and Germany have now seen basically the exact same amount of economic growth post-2008. Would have been unthinkable to people during most of the 2010s. Spain has seen ~10 percentage points more cumulative growth since 2017.

The road from Australia to Italy runs one bad idea at a time... www.smh.com.au/politics/fed...

Great overview of a rapidly growing field!