Hey folks, welcome back from the holiday break. This week in solar news, a Pew Research survey finds that America wants more solar power. To be exact, 92% of Americans are in favor of more solar farms. The survey polled over 3600 people during the first weeks in October. Expanding wind energy farms also showed a high approval rate of 85%.
What this means
This finding comes at a time when Americans are increasingly polarized about everything, from climate change to healthcare. So it’s encouraging to see that solar power is seen as overwhelmingly positive by most Americans. Interestingly, when asked what one action we should do to address the country’s energy supply, 77% responded to develop renewables while 22% responded to expand fossil fuels. So it would seem we still have some work to do in getting that 22% to part with fossil fuels.
Solar power boasts strong public support and great potential for job creation. Up and coming (and established) politicians would be smart to get behind solar initiatives in their districts.
Read the full article on why America wants more solar power here.
Vikram Solar recently announced three commercial-sized solar modules for the US market – a framed and frameless bifacial, and a half-cut standard monoPERC – whose peak output ranges from 375 through 425 watts, available starting in January 2020. Read the full article >
Happy Thanksgiving y’all, hope you hugged someone this holiday. Friday – means solar hardware (and services!) – Solar Services advertising their inverter and engineering support, Gamechange installing modules really fast with a new clip, Sherin and Lodgen supported their first solar+storage and finance deal, Sungrow+Hanwha+NEXTracker in a Florida install, and a little bit more! Read the full article >
Enphase has released training materials and a pre-order page for its home energy storage product – the Ensemble. Here we review the hardware specs and the installation directions. Read the full article >
Black Hills Energy is seeking 200 MW of solar power or wind plus energy storage capacity as part of an RFP, driven – not by any requirements – but by 2019 summertime bids solar and solar plus storage bids of 2.4¢/kWh and 3.6¢/kWh and the pending step down of the 30% investment tax credit. Read the full article >
As always, if you’ve got a burning question or a potential solar power project, contact the Commercial Solar Guy. See you all next week…
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