Week 28. 

Another productive week.

Done last week:

• Sent our first high 6-digit solar+battery solution project proposal and contract. Very close to signing, fingers crossed!
• Explored multi-stakeholder, sustainability and transparency focused project delivery models as well as financial and legal models to support that approach
• Came to an agreement with Brian Hayden, founder of HeatSpring and University of Michigan Ann Harbor Center for Entrepreneurship, to co-teach this Solar Entrepreneurship Course targeting people who are looking to start their own companies in the Solar Industry.
• Continued conversations with numerous long-tail-of-solar focused early-stage companies and investors to help grow our Enki Solar Investments initiative.

To-do this week:

• Develop the outline for our next 2 courses (How to Buy Solar for Resi & Commercial property owners).
• Start putting down thoughts about Learning Paths for various roles in the industry
• Continue work on the next version of the SolarAcademy home page reflecting the new courses and various sections for property owners as well as contractors.
• Developed the first draft of the Video Testimonial storyboard for customer referrals
• Continued exploration of hybrid models of organizational structures for SolarAcademy

Thoughts:

Hybrid models are in my mind this week. Hybrid models apply to so many things. By the way, I am not thinking about Hybrid cars… though I like them. I am thinking about concepts like public-private partnership (but with transparency), B-Corps, Co-ops (but with high levels of accountability and fair rewards), the best elements of Capitalism and Socialism merged in a new model (see this video by Daniel Schmactenberger)… Environmental and Social Sustainability and Economic progress…. Have you heard about Sustainabilism? I encourage you to check out The Sustainablist Manifesto…

But really my current focus is on how we can apply hybrid models in the most efficient way to our power systems. I mean our power infrastructure initially, how to merge local utilities with independent micro-grids that will be forming all over the world. And maybe applying these learnings to other areas… like hybrid remote and in-person education and beyond… and so many other areas of life (social, political, economic, and environmental) which I look forward to exploring in the future…