On Earth Day, President Biden is announcing $7 billion in awards to help deliver solar power to over 900,000 households in low-income and disadvantaged communities across the country – giving Americans more breathing room and cleaner breathing room.

TOMORROW: Join a free webinar with the authors of the QUEUED UP report, to get full details on the huge grid interconnection backlog.

Tuesday, April 23 at 1pm ET / 10am PT. Register here: lbnl.zoom.us/webinar/regist…

“We’re in a rapid and fundamental energy transition in this country.” Our Joseph Rand comments to the Chicago Tribune on Queued Up, Berkeley Lab's new report on the grid interconnection queue.

chicagotribune.com/2024/04/21/cle…

THIS WEEK: For full details on the Queued Up report, on the enormous gird interconnection queue, join a free webinar with the authors on Wednesday April 24, at 2pm ET / 11am PT.

Register here: lbnl.zoom.us/webinar/regist…

If you’re still on #energytwitter but not following EMP at Berkeley Lab Will Gorman Joseph Rand, I suggest you fix this immediately!

Joe Rand from EMP at Berkeley Lab presenting today at “IRA, BIL, and the Future of Energy: A Summit to Support State Implementation”

A first-of-its-kind nationally representative survey of perceptions of people living near large scale solar (LSS) from Berkeley Lab has some interesting results. 5 takeaways:

1) People generally have a positive/neutral view of LSS and support more of it
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A new national lab survey shows broad support for solar projects from people who live within three miles. But beyond that topline, it gets complicated. My story:
insideclimatenews.org/news/16042024/… Sarah Mills Berkeley Lab