7 Things Worth Reading This Week (7/28/23)

SolarEdge Gen Manager discusses how NEM 3.0 in CA will impact installers and their resi customers. He compares the situation to other markets like Germany and Belgium, points way to flourish in a self-consumption market, and looks at the role of storage.

This op-ed from Utility Dive talks about the need to build a dynamic and resilient grid via data management, a transmission buildout, permitting reform, the adoption of wider standards, and leveraging of key info in order to accommodate the recent and unprecedented distributed energy growth.

This article is part one of a discussion about how installers can create a cost-effective content marketing strategy to attract more business opportunities. It touches on the first four of ten tips: Define Your Target Audience, Develop a Content Calendar, Leverage Different Content Formats, and Optimize for Search Engines.

The N.C. Clean Energy Technology Center’s Q2 2023 edition of The 50 States of Solar offered insights about key state regulatory and legislative discussions and actions. 40 states, plus DC and PR, took a total of 176 distributed solar policy actions. These policies included 57 actions for net metering, 48 for community solar, and 44 for resi fixed charge or minimum bill increases.

Nuvola Technology has developed a patented direct deposition polymer separator technology that can eliminate the primary cause of lithium-ion battery fires. Nuvola Technology has unveiled its patented direct deposition separator technology. This could replace conventional film separators and deliver certain improvements in both safety and performance.

Two execs from IronRidge discuss their latest offering – the Halo Ultragrip. They cover all the details from specs to testing as well as several rooftop case study uses. They wrap up with an extensive Q&A. The video is below.

In the tenth of a ten-part (and second portion of a 3 part series) SunCast/SolarAcademy solar conversation solar industry veteran Jon Bonanno and Ted Thomas, founder of Energized Strategies and former chair of the Arkansas Public Service Commission, Ted talks about speaking with former FERC chairs to discuss modern-day solutions to complex energy challenges. The video is below.