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Solar Coaster - Episode 32 - Enphase Energy Jane Pimental & Nick Morelli join the coaster!


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The guys tackle the concerning feeling that roofs are not quite as populated as years past. Why?
News suggests that installs are down nationally and various reasons are cited and they even go so far as to explore how one company could be responsible? Tesla/Solarcity? But the World bank has other plans ceasing all funding for upstream oil and gas projects moving forward seems to suggest that renewables squarely have a place at the energy table. Matt Egan of CNN also suggests that there are signs that renewables may continue to gain ground on fossil fuels, especially coal. "The seismic shift in renewables economics" will cause "large reductions in carbon intensity in the global power sector," Morgan Stanley wrote in a recent research report. Several major markets have reached an "inflection point where renewables are the "cheapest form of new power generation," Morgan Stanley wrote. It expects that trend to spread to "nearly every country we cover by 2020."
In local news Ensych and Holu Energy create a Solar plus storage PPA for the Cameron Center in Maui.
Today’s Product focus on Enphase Energy offers the guys a chance to review a Juggernaut in the renewable energies industry. Jay and Josh explore the rise of microinverters from the m175 all the way up to the current 6th gen IQ series. They are offered an interview with the founder of Enphase in an upcoming episode to explore the 8th generation microinverter coming in 2019 which is rumored to operate in backup mode during the day time without batteries!...yes without batteries….thats what I said without batteries.
https://electrek.co/2017/11/09/solar-inverter-enphase-to-works-without-batteries-grid/
The day’s future focus is about an amazing new tech coming out of NREL transparent photoelectric glass solar panels that achieve an astounding 11% efficiency.
https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/nonprofit-incubator-signs-a-solar-plus-storage-ppa-with-ensync-energy-300571118.html
https://electrek.co/2017/12/15/egeb-us-solar-slowing/amp/
https://www.streetinsider.com/Corporate+News/Tesla+largely+responsible+for+slide+in+U.S.+home+solar+sales/13604538.html
http://www.worldbank.org/en/news/press-release/2017/12/12/world-bank-group-announcements-at-one-planet-summit
https://electrek.co/2017/11/29/solar-smart-windows-11-percent-efficiency/
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