Disappointingly, analysis shows that the promise of FERC’s Order 2222 has not come to pass. The order was supposed to force ISOs and RTOs to reconfigure their wholesale electricity market structures to lower the barriers to entry for DERs. But results have been extremely patchy. For example, Sunrun pushed hard to interact with market operators on Order 2222 to no avail.

240+ solar and storage companies are pressing for Secretary Gina Raimondo to reject the petition for new anti-circumvention tariffs on solar products. The deadline for the Dept of Commerce is approaching (Dec 1) and the companies that signed the new letter are pointing to an affirmative decision as unjustified and one that will profoundly stifle America’s clean energy industry growth.

NREL offers up a user-friendly interactive chart of solar cell efficiency for a whole range of PV tech. Users can access decades of research data and compare charts that focus on specific tech or time periods. Info like data on a cell’s current, voltage output, and fill factor, and efficiency is easily accessible. The highest research cell efficiency is 47.1%, for a four-junction cell.

Utility Dive examined three regions of the US and how they have been handling grid reliability challenges, plus what’s in their respective futures. The regions are California, where they assess the true value of changes made there this year; Texas, where they look at the thermal fleet; and the Pacific Northwest, where they look at the role of impending heat waves.

Last week, we had the pleasure to host Adam Gerza of Energy Toolbase to talk about California’s upcoming Net Energy Metering 3.0 policy. Adam Gerza, who is also a member of the CalSSA, shared with us a ton of useful information about what is new, the good, and the bad in the NEM 3.0 process and the timeline and implications of the upcoming changes. Below is our main video is below.

This week we had the pleasure of hosting Sasha Jokic of Cosmic Buildings. Growing up in Yugoslavia during wartime and moving to more than 10 homes within a span of 2 years, Sasha came to feel a special affinity for homes and buildings during his childhood. Sasha chose architecture as his career path and has become an expert in AI/robotics and materials science while leading research projects at major universities to create buildings leveraging cheaper materials and faster processes.

Cosmic Buildings was born out of Sasha’s experience connecting the dots around his vision for cheaper and more sustainable buildings for the future: autonomous and zero-emissions with exceptional air quality. His approach includes an end-to-end construction process to streamline workflows and a financeable utility mono-block that is re-used across all buildings which creates savings on the design and engineering of future projects. The video is below.