With solar trade wars in the news - 50% tariffs on photovoltaic imports from China yesterday and today new anti-dumping/counterveiling duty investigations into pv from Cambodia, Vietnam, Malaysia & Thailand - See Chapter 7 of Solar Power for background. drive.google.com/file/d/12wmr_D…

California's water system.

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BREAKING: Bureau of Land Management - National moves to end future #coal leasing in the prolific Powder River Basin in #Wyoming and #Montana . The historic move is likely to face legal challenges, but could signal the end to one of Wyoming's biggest revenue sources. wyofile.com/feds-to-end-co…

Important story in Nevada Independent today: the BLM has moved the alignment of a transmission line to avoid a gold mining claim, but not to avoid a national monument. Great #FOIA work from Basin & Range Watch:
thenevadaindependent.com/article/watchd…

New peak battery record this evening for CAISO, 7.5 GW - 28% of electricity supply.

We have our quarterly PV PACT meeting today, Perovskite PV Accelerator for Commercializing Technologies. Anything you want to know about perovskite solar cells? pvpact.sandia.gov

With solar trade wars in the news - 50% tariffs on photovoltaic imports from China yesterday and today new anti-dumping/counterveiling duty investigations into pv from Cambodia, Vietnam, Malaysia & Thailand - See Chapter 7 of Solar Power for background. drive.google.com/file/d/12wmr_D…

How it started/how it’s going. #westcliff #bombcyclone 🌀

Oakland, California's school district is now the first in the nation to have a 100% electric bus fleet — and they're all 'vehicle to grid' capable, able to discharge up to 2.7 megawatts and 2.1 gigawatt-hours back into the PG&E grid.
electrek.co/2024/05/15/oak…

May gray, Monterey Bay.

From a recent Berkeley Lab technical brief, the installed cost of residential solar in California is an embarrassment.

Solar panels themselves are well below 10% of the system cost at this point!
eta-publications.lbl.gov/sites/default/…

A Mercury News reader’s sketch of solar along right-of-ways.. ☀️

(Maybe) coming to a high court in DC: Apache Stronghold v. U.S. et al. Story by moi azcentral.com/story/news/loc…

Dustin Mulvaney From me:
All warehouses, distribution centers & big box stores
All parking lots & parking decks
All schools, universities & public buildings
All hideous malls & strip malls

My inbox is full of ideas from the public about where to put solar panels.

Also, this map should have the Pacific Ocean in the center, with arrows pointed at the Port of Los Angeles.

'The Sun also Rises in Portugal' will be out in three weeks (bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/the-sun-also-r…) so I'm plotting book talks on conference sidelines this summer. Are you able to set one up for me for any of these towns and dates? Also happy to discuss uclpress.co.uk/products/251005 (out September).

Memo to various rich freaks: 👏YOU👏CANNOT👏OWN👏OUR👏BEACH👏 mercurynews.com/2024/05/13/bil…

Q&A feature with me about solar power in California, in the Santa Cruz Sentinel. santacruzsentinel.com/2024/05/12/use…