Fire at Wacker’s polysilicon fab in Tennessee – Per Wacker’s statement: “At 1:20 am Wacker’s internal Fire Department responded to a small fire on the fourth floor of a non-processing building in the facility. A cloud of smoke and water vapor from the fire truck was visible. Wacker requested assistance from Bradley County and Cleveland City Fire Departments to extinguish the fire. There were no injuries.” Source: WDEF.com
New Jersey man bilks the feds for solar panel rebates – “A New Jersey native admitted in court Friday he duped the U.S. government out of millions of dollars by taking federal rebates for solar panels he never installed. Charles E. Kartsaklis, 41, pleaded guilty in federal court in Camden to one count of wire fraud.” Source: NJ.com
Rocky Mountain Institute gets three new directors – “Rocky Mountain Institute is pleased to announce the addition of Bruce Nilles, Ting Li and Richenda Van Leeuwen to its senior leadership team as managing directors.” – Source: RMI
Unfortunately California is not only setting records for solar output and portion of demand met with renewables. Due to heavy hydro output, lots of sun but not enough heat to drive AC demand, the state also saw record curtailment in April.
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Note Cal has a lot of must take contracts is the only reason for the curtailment.
As these contracts run out, solar, wind can do 75%+ of generation without a problem.
Not like they will have any choice as most homes, buildings in Cal in 10 yrs will be generating, storing power.
And so many storage sinks from EVs, home, building batteries, heat, cold storage, etc behind the meter.
Likely 60-75% of generation, storage in 15 yrs will be by these behind the meter sources.