Today on the Clean Power Hour with John Weaver and Tim Montague | Ep.40: Canadian Solar mass produces 665 W module (solar panel) Jobs Act break down New Mexico now has community solar Kite power is approaching commercial deployment Tesla jacks the prices of solar roof Solar for 1.04¢/kWh in Saudi Arabia **Please subscribe to the channel **Likes, shares and comments are awesome - do it! **Hit that bell for the energy transition Let’s grow solar! -Tim Montague, host & creator, @TGMontague on T...
May 03, 2021•1 hr 1 min•Season 1Ep. 40
Community Solar is growing in Pennsylvania! Maybe America’s highways are an significant opportunity for solar PV The Vikings are coming for your hydro and floating solar opportunity Tax revenue from community and utility scale solar is helping rural communities It’s Day 10 of the Solar 500 Challenge - give us a thumbs up and please subscribe to the Channel! Share the channel with your friends and please comment - we love to hear from our viewers. See Ep 132 of energy transition show re Solar for...
May 03, 2021•1 hr 8 min•Season 1Ep. 16
** www.CESnrg.com/podcast #Tesla over the air update https://twitter.com/SolarInMASS/status/1312500497819951105 $200 billion worth of green bonds have been issued in 2020 thus far - $50 billion in a strong September. This represents a 12% increase compared with the first nine months of 2019. And in total $1 trillion have been sold since 2007.' https://about.bnef.com/blog/record-month-shoots-green-bonds-past-trillion-dollar-mark/ China plots course for net zero by 2060 https://www.theguardian.com...
May 03, 2021•51 min•Season 1Ep. 14
Today on the Clean Power Hour Ep.41: Elon Musk Beats Bezos to the Moon Solar Powered Robot Helicopter Flies on Mars Solar Powered Greenhouses Sprouting Asparagus in France HVDC Powerline Crossing North Sea - How about the Earth? Electricity Utilities Pushing for 80% Emissions Cut by 2030 **Please subscribe to the channel **Likes, shares and comments are awesome - do it! **Hit that bell for the energy transition Let’s grow solar! -Tim Montague, host & creator, @TGMontague on Twitter **HVDC po...
May 03, 2021•1 hr 8 min•Season 1Ep. 41
There’s a new social media platform to stop climate chaos - "We don’t have time" by Ingmar Rentzhog Unions getting behind Biden’s jobs act plans Solar+wind powered hydrogen space rockets in Australia World’s largest ocean turbine - that looks like a Starwars X-Wing fighter Connecting solar from Morocco to the UK at 6.7 cents per kWh - Epic HVDC **Please subscribe to the channel **Likes, shares and comments are awesome - do it! **Hit that bell for the energy transition Let’s grow solar! -Tim Mont...
May 03, 2021•1 hr 1 min•Season 1Ep. 42
Gunter Erfurt, CEO and Ardes Johnson, President and GM, Americas, Meyer Burger join us for a special episode of the Clean Power Hour. We explore this new technology launch and the storied history of Meyer Burger in the solar industry. We liken Meyer Burger to the Swiss Army Knife of Solar. High Performance, Low Carbon Solar Module Data Sheets available here: https://www.meyerburger.com/de/installateure#c1298 Slide Show from the Investor's call: https://www.meyerburger.com/fileadmin/user_upload/D...
May 02, 2021•53 min•Season 1Ep. 43
Largest Rooftop Solar Project - 18 MW in Netherlands Sunrun - Vivant merger closes making the combined company 25 percent of the residential solar market King coal is falling to Crown Prince solar and storage Two companies - Nextera and 8Minute Energy - have nearly 100 GW of wind, solar and storage in the pipeline **Please subscribe to the channel** Give us a thumbs up, and hit that bell for the energy transition. ** www.CESnrg.com/podcast 'The king of electricity’: Solar outshines other power s...
Apr 28, 2021•1 hr 2 min•Season 1Ep. 15
Today (Sept. 30, 2020) we break down Tesla Battery Day and cover the latest in solar and storage news: John Weaver Bought a Tesla Model Y! Jigar Shah of generate capital is coming on the Solar Podcast Oct 6 Battery day recap “Waze” for the power grid could help unlock 500 GW of renewables Array Technologies going public - oh yea! Maine gets into the solar game Age of renewable energy majors… Orsted goes long on solar China peaking emissions prior to 2030 means an average of ~250 GW of solar per ...
Apr 28, 2021•1 hr 1 min•Season 1Ep. 13
Clean Power Hour with Tim Montague & John Weaver Ep. 7 - published Sept 1, 2020 **Rolling Blackouts in CA due to extreme heat wave… necessary or evil https://pv-magazine-usa.com/2020/08/17/californias-fossil-fuel-plants-failed-us-not-solar/ **Rewiring America: A positive, comprehensive, and inclusive vision for a better future. Tech entrepreneurs Saul Griffith with Sam Calish and Laura Fraser have created a ‘Field Manual for the Climate Fight’ which is a guide to decarbonizing the entire US ...
Apr 28, 2021•53 min•Season 1Ep. 7
Tesla battery day! (moving away from Cobalt, going long on Nickel) Hands on with a solar power operating and maintenance financial and labor model Jinko sets efficiency record - 24% / mention of SunPower Agrivoltaics - Cylindrical PV in German; a Solyndra like product Lower cost single axis tracker technology from Alion Energy - built in Albedo increaser Tesla 10 MW/~22-27MWh residential powerwall VPP wins big power grid contract Electrification opportunity Are EVs really better for the enviro...
Apr 28, 2021•47 min•Season 1Ep. 12
Today's solar, wind and battery storage news stories: Google pledging CO2 free 24/7 Getting to a Carbon-Free Economy The urgent is attainable, and at entirely affordable cost. by Jeffrey Sachs of Columbia University The incremental costs of decarbonization above our normal energy costs will amount to 1 to 2 percent of U.S. GDP per year during the period to 2050. By contrast, during World War II, federal outlays soared to 43 percent of GDP from the pre-war level of 10 percent of GDP in 1940. Elon...
Apr 28, 2021•40 min•Season 1Ep. 11
The world will add 142 GW of new solar this year - Covid-19 is knocking 20 GW off the anticipated amount of solar that will get installed this year. MA Solar Market Floating solar at fort Bragg NC, the US Army's largest base. RTO insider 'past 10 years in CA, average 1 GW/yr solar and 330 MW wind' to reach SB100 2045 goals - 'modelers estimate annual build rate of 2.7 GW of solar, 2.2 GW of storage and 1 GW of wind each year over the next 25 years'” Behind the meter solar near 10 GW in Calif...
Apr 28, 2021•52 min•Season 1Ep. 10
Roadrunner solar project in Texas goes online at 497 MW...why does Big Solar matter to you? Largest solar project in Texas! Solar panels /modules are getting bigger but is bigger better? NREL - the national renewable energy laboratory will tell you how solar is made and what it costs to make and install solar. In Portugal, a new low, a solar PPA in Portugal breaks all records at 1.3 cents! And finally, you think the US is installing a lot of solar, well think again...China is installing more tha...
Apr 28, 2021•45 min•Season 1Ep. 9
Today on the Clean Power Hour, Ep. 8: Sept 8, 2020 Tesla launches 2 dollar/watt solar Solar panels are growing larger - longer and heavier Illinois’ Governor Pritzker issues 8 Point Plan and 100% RPS A closer look at JA Solar’s new 785/810 W panel series According to the product sheet, the new series has dimensions of 2,219×1,765x40mm and weighs 43.5kg. Efficiency reportedly ranges from 20.1-20.8%. That is 7.3 ft x 5.8 ft - getting big. But is bigger better? The Solar Singularity: 2020 Update (P...
Apr 24, 2021•45 min•Season 1Ep. 8
On today's Clean Power Hour with Tim Montague and John Weaver we dive into solar pv news stories about solar, solar plus storage, grid scale batteries and the future of solar and storage. 1. Vistra has been granted a permit for a 1500 MW ESS facility in northern CA. 2. Montague shows off a NexTracker NX Gemini single axis tracker project 3. Australia building world's largest solar plus storage (10 GW) to feed power to Singapore 4. New report on Texas solar industry driving coal plants into retir...
Apr 24, 2021•37 min•Season 1Ep. 6
AZ grid scale battery blow up: https://commercialsolarguy.com/2020/08/10/a-lithium-ion-battery-burnt-four-firefighters-were-knocked-unconscious-a-timeline-and-recommendations/ Single Axis Trackers for rooftop solar: https://www.pointloadpower.com/articles Send us your suggestions for topics and technology you would like to see us cover on our weekly run-down of the latest about the solar, battery storage and renewable energy economy. Support the show Connect with Tim Clean Power Hour Clean Power...
Apr 24, 2021•58 min•Season 1Ep. 5
The Bigbox Solar Bonanza - Ep.4 of the Clean Power Hour. Breaking down the latest news and information about the commercial industrial solar industry. Please subscribe and give us a thumbs up! Hit that bell. Tell us what you like and want to see more of and share the podcast with your friends. Let's grow solar! Today on the Clean Power Hour we give a behind the scenes look at a rooftop solar project in northern IL. We talk solar cleaning robots and vegetation management robots (Renubot.com - com...
Apr 24, 2021•43 min•Season 1Ep. 4
Today on the Clean Power Hour this week we talk about: 1)We tour one of John's rooftop commercial solar projects; 2)FERC Order 841 and battery storage regulations; an investors view of a solar stock (Ameresco); 3)the growing problem of E-waste as the solar panel avalanche continues to grow. 4)Coal power plants are old and getting older and this is why so many of them are being retired (https://www.carbonbrief.org/mapped-worlds-coal-power-plants). 5)Michigan’s largest solar project - 1900 acre, $...
Apr 24, 2021•58 min•Season 1Ep. 3
On this episode of the Clean Power Hour (published July 21, 2020) with co-hosts Tim Montague and John Weaver we discuss site selection criteria for commercial rooftop solar (C&I solar; behind the meter solar PV): roof condition (less than 10 years preferred), available ground if ground mount; electric load vs. available space for solar, grid infrastructure, and how a facility owner will evaluate the opportunity (ROI). John Weaver gives updates on two recent blog posts of his: 1. NREL Operati...
Apr 24, 2021•1 hr 4 min•Season 1Ep. 2
Today on the Clean Power Hour we explain how rooftop solar and battery storage works for commercial facility owners. We explore solar PV (photovoltaics), how solar plus battery storage works, the power of microgrids to provide resiliency, and the role that incentives like the solar ITC (investment tax credit), RECs (renewable energy credits), feed in tariffs, and bonus depreciation give solar pv a superior payback and ROI. The Clean Power Hour is co-hosted by Tim Montague, Solar Expert (www.cesn...
Apr 24, 2021•52 min•Season 1Ep. 1
