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Every Sunday, Gerard and Laurent debriefs last week in the Energy Transition:On the menu:- Energy prices meltdown in Europe: negative prices and coal is shipped back to Africa- IEA is (finally) bullish renewables- Denmark huge offshore wind plan (but China is even bigger)- In the EV race, Tesla wins again, Ford capitulates. The Japanese are out lunch.- We partner with UK Solar SummitThe UK Solar Summit takes place on 27 & 28 June in London and listeners can save 15% off their tickets by using the code Redefining15. You will hear from the Minister of State for DESNZ, Ofgem, National Grid ESO, EDF, SSE, RWE, Sonnedix and more.Summit description: https://uss.solarenergyevents.com/Get your discounted ticket here: https://na.eventscloud.com/uksolarsummit?discountcode=REDEFINING15
Solar is the future and it's blasting off like a rocket ship! Watch Jayson Waller, CEO of Powerhome Solar, as he explains and debunks the biggest myths about Solar. From how it works, the policies around it, what opportunities it brings to the table, and how you can use it to save money and ease tension off the power grid. This video was taken from ‘Solar Summit', a job fair and consumer event dedicated to support the solar industry. --- OWN YOUR POWER HARD-COPY AND SOFT-COPY IS OUT NOW! Immerse yourself with 8 key life changing principles, worksheets to create your own map, and how to reach another level of your game! It's all Real Life Stories! It's You vs You! “It's a Reflection of everything I've been through to give guidance and key steps to people in order to live a life with zero excuses” Warning: This Book is not suitable for pessimists, excuse makers and haters! --- Highlights: Renewable Energy Policies Energy Independence Battery and Storage is the Future Renewable Energy Revolution! Own Your Power! "Time of Use" Creating Jobs for the Economy Through Energy Solar is Less Stress on the Grid --- Athletic Greens® supports gut health, immunity, energy, recovery, focus, ageing, and more. --- Wix - Discover the platform that gives you the freedom to create, design, manage and develop your web presence exactly the way you want. --- Peloton is an American exercise equipment and media company with their main products being internet-connected stationary bicycles and treadmills that enable monthly subscribers to remotely participate in classes via streaming media. --- Gusto's people platform helps businesses like yours onboard, pay, insure, and support your hardworking team. --- POWERHOME SOLAR is the leading solar energy company installing solar panels and solar power for homes. Looking for a job in the Energy Industry Serving Communities? Join the solar movement! www.Powerhome.com/careers --- Social Media: Check out Jayson's website: https://www.jaysonwaller.com/ Follow True Underdog and Jayson Waller on your favorite social media channels and digital podcast platforms: https://linktr.ee/trueunderdog True Underdog is a Top 3 Entrepreneurship podcast on Apple hosted by Jayson Waller, CEO of POWERHOME Solar, one of the fastest growing private companies in the USA, and his high-profile guests share motivational tips, inspiring stories and business-building lessons to help each listener grow in their entrepreneurial journey. Reach out to Jayson directly at: Jayson@trueunderdog.com --- Timestamps: 00:00:00 - COMMERCIAL: Peloton 00:00:52 - Prelude 00:01:22 - Intro - Virtual Summit 00:02:53 - Jayson's Come Up Story! 00:04:48 - Breakdown of Energy + the Grid 00:13:12 - Building a Movement! 00:16:00 - Alternatives for Solar 00:17:25 - COMMERCIAL: Athletic Greens 00:18:36 - COMMERCIAL: Wix 00:19:36 - Microgrids are the Future 00:21:20 - Crypto, Cannabis and Energy 00:23:26 - "I see a World...." 00:25:25 - Job Opportunities in the Space 00:30:53 - Jayson's Advice on Empowerment! 00:32:12 - COMMERCIAL: Gusto 00:33:10 - Powerhome Solar | Energy Revolution 00:40:50 - Fulfilment! 00:42:10 - Final Words 00:43:44 - Outro --- Don't forget to subscribe to the True Underdog Podcast with over 2 million downloads!! LOVE YOUR HATERS! BAM!
Interplanetary traveler lands in Arizona takes over the world! No hmm. Commissioner, Paul Newman addresses the future for renewable energy from Solar Summit 2018 in San Diego, Ca.
Republicans are often viewed as enemies of the clean energy transition. Some people believe the GOP will never embrace climate action. So is voting them out the only way to save the planet?If you ask environmental policy pioneer Terry Tamminen, the solution isn’t that simple. As Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger’s pick to lead the California EPA, Tamminen found ways to craft ambitious clean energy policies and programs with buy-in from both Democrats and Republicans. In his current role as CEO of the Leonardo DiCaprio Foundation, Tamminen is working to advance sustainability solutions across the country and around the world. In this episode of Political Climate, recorded live at GTM’s Solar Summit, we talk to Tamminen about why it’s important to get Republicans on board with the climate change agenda. Even if it means avoiding the words "climate change" altogether.We also discuss why Democrats are rallying around a 100 percent renewable energy target, when it has yet to be proven technically feasible. Plus, we talk about California's clash with Washington D.C. over fuel economy standards and whether philanthropy is proving we don't need to spend taxpayer dollars on fighting climate change.Recommended reading:Terry Tamminen: Leonardo DiCaprio FoundationLDF: Leonardo DiCaprio Foundation awards $20 million in environmental grantsGTM: Solar and Wind Companies Spend More on Republican Candidates Than DemocratsGTM: Mark Jacobson Drops Lawsuit Against Critics of His 100% Renewables PlanNYT: California Sues Trump Administration Over Car Emissions RulesBBC: Michael Bloomberg pledges $4.5m for Paris dealOr you can find it on Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, Google Play or TuneIn. Follow Political Climate on Twitter @Poli_Climate.
Last year was a tough one for many U.S. solar companies. For the first time, America's solar market saw a decline in growth and solar employment.What gives? In this podcast, we're going to walk through the sector-specific factors that threw solar off its axis in 2017. Some of the questions we address in this episode:Residential customer acquisition: why is it getting so much harder to find new customers?Solar-plus-storage: where are batteries getting the most traction?Utility-scale solar: what's the latest data on pricing?Sunrun and Tesla: why is Sunrun doing so well, while Tesla keeps shrinking?Non-residential: why is this sector outshining others in terms of growth?Don't forget to come to our 11th annual Solar Summit in San Diego, where we'll be dissecting data in the top solar markets around the world. This podcast is brought to you by Shoals, the gold standard for solar and storage balance-of-systems solutions. Learn more about how Shoals can make your project operate at the highest level.This podcast is brought to you by Fiveworx, a turnkey customer engagement platform for utilities. Find out more about how Fiveworx can help your customer engagement program succeed -- and get you beyond the meter.Recommended reading:GTM: US Residential and Utility-Scale Solar Markets See Installations Fall for the First TimeGTM Research: U.S. Solar Market Insight reportSubscribe to The Interchange podcast via Apple Podcasts, Google Play, Stitcher or wherever you find your audio content.
There are two stories playing out in solar today. One of them is decidedly negative. The other is extraordinarily positive. And they're both unfolding at the exact same time. In this week's podcast, we detail the different stories playing out in solar. We'll weave reflective conversation together with excerpts from Shayle's keynote address at last month's Solar Summit. In part one, the brutal year for many businesses: Public solar companies are getting thrashed; module oversupply is causing severe financial pain for manufacturers; and even downstream companies who've benefited from cheaper equipment and growing demand have struggled. What does this tell us about the state of in the industry? In part two, the macro trends: While the industry is in upheaval, the prospects could not be better for the technology. It's one of the strange contradictions in solar. Where do we stand on the growth trajectory today? In part three, preparing for explosive growth: How do you manage the coming wave of solar with better market design and integration techniques? The Interchange is brought to you by AES Energy Storage. AES is helping utilities harness the power of battery-based energy storage to make the electric power system cleaner, more flexible, and more reliable. Find out more: bit.ly/2oxZ5dT
California released a white paper last week documenting the stunning decline of the customer base for investor-owned utilities in the state. Meanwhile, the state is facing more and more curtailments, negative electricity pricing, and, on top of it all, a looming solar eclipse. What can we learn about market design from the nation’s solar leader? Then, getting to terawatt-scale PV. Researchers and policymakers are getting serious about thousands and thousands of gigawatts of solar in the coming decades. And they’re asking some hard questions about market design. What does the world look like under that scenario? Finally, we'll end with a fast cycle through some of the top news stories. How worried should you be? This week's podcast was recorded live at GTM's Solar Summit. For access to videos of all our sessions -- featuring First Solar, Sunpower, Sunshot, Google, SEIA, Sunrun and more -- sign up for GTM Squared. This podcast is sponsored by KACO New Energy, a leading solar inverter company with superior engineering and unmatched customer service.
Sunrun is now the largest standalone solar company in the U.S. And as a public company, it faces increased scrutiny of its solar services model from investors who are skeptical about residential solar conditions. After reporting solid quarterly numbers for the end of 2016, the company is now dealing with accusations that it hid customer cancelation rates. Executives aren't commenting on an SEC investigation into canceled contracts, but analysts believe it's a distraction from the real metrics used to value Sunrun. The company also says it is a distraction, and that the allegations are false. On stage at the Solar Summit, we talked about some of the immediate challenges -- investor sentiment, customer acquisition costs, and streamlining installations -- that Sunrun is grappling with. (Squared subscribers can watch every single session.) After that session, we whisked Jurich into a back room for a podcast interview about Sunrun's long-term outlook. We asked about the role of solar as a grid resource, the company's growing storage deployments, its new partnerships with utilities, and the evolution of customer choice. It offers a glimpse into her leadership style as the CEO of one of America's top solar companies. "We often get stuck in the short term noise, we often miss this bigger, massive structural shift that's happening," she said. Thanks to our launch sponsor, AES Energy Storage. Find out more about the company's storage solutions for utilities: http://aesenergystorage.com/interchange
Whether the solar industry likes it or not, more regulated utilities in America are going to propose owning residential PV systems themselves. It's a controversial development. At our recent Solar Summit in Phoenix, GTM's Stephen Lacey and Shayle Kann hosted a debate on the following motion: "Regulated utilities should be allowed to own and rate-base residential solar." Lon Huber, a former advisor at Arizona's ratepayer advocate and current director of Strategen Consulting's government and utility program argued in favor of the motion. Court Rich, a senior partner at the Rose Law Group, argued against the motion. This week's episode is sponsored by Renesola, a top supplier and manufacturer of clean energy equipment.
In this special Solar Summit 2014 preview edition of the Greentech Media Podcast, Scott Clavenna, CEO of Greentech Media, talks with Paul Nahi, CEO of Enphase Energy, about the state of the market for solar inverters, balance of systems, and asset management and O&M in PV solar energy systems.
In this special Solar Summit 2014 preview edition of the Greentech Media Podcast, Scott Clavenna, CEO of Greentech Media, talks with members of the truSolar Working Group about their current work underway to establish uniform credit screening standards for commercial and industrial PV projects to help drive down the cost of capital. The truSolar team will be taking part in our pre-conference seminar at the Solar Summit on The Future of U.S. Distributed Solar Project Finance in a special session titled C&I Project Screening Methodologies: How to Accurately Price Risk to Unlock Financing. On the podcast representing truSolar are: Chase Weir, CEO, Distributed Sun Evelyn Butler, Global Director, Business Development, Energy & Industrial Systems, Underwriters Laboratories Jamie Mandel, Manager Industry and Electricity at The Rocky Mountain Institute