Berkeley Lab has released Distributed Solar 2020 Data Update, which is a lighter version of their biennial Tracking the Sun report. The document has collected actual solar data – including pricing – of 1.9 million systems installed through 2019, covering...
The Clean Power Hour – a weekly clean energy headline review and commentary podcast run by Tim Montague, and yours truly – the CommercialSolarGuy – John Fitzgerald Weaver. First of course, here’s the podcast – Episode 24. Next, the show started with Cesar...
In the spring of 2020, a California business owner called into CommercialSolarGuy and asked for support deploying a solar photovoltaic plus energy storage (PVS) microgrid at his multiple building manufacturing campus in Southern California. His business had years ago...
The Clean Power Hour – a weekly clean energy headline review and commentary podcast run by Tim Montague, and yours truly – the CommercialSolarGuy – John Fitzgerald Weaver. First of course, here’s the podcast – Episode 23. Now, to the news! SeeThru Solar...
Every year, the much heralded Lazard Levelized Cost of Energy Comparison is released. The wind and solar industry sing the praises as the document gives hard electricity pricing in a format showing off renewables. The most recent version of this document (below) shows...
It used to be that the most expensive electricity was between noon and early afternoon as temperatures built and air conditioners turned on. Different regions would see varying mixes of this peak pricing based on climate, and heating/cooling technology. Obviously,...
