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[Awaken Solar @AwakenSolar]

The solar industry has almost as many problems as the grid, and almost as many people running business schemes like @SBF_FTX.

Instead of using customer funds to fund political campaigns via dark money from non-profits (as exposed by @orlandosentinel) solar companies will...
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[Awaken Solar @AwakenSolar]

@nwdiver93 @Heather_mom4nuk @PattyforGaPSC @HopfJames @Atomicrod @energybants @BrianGitt @Dr_Keefer Source for $170?

[Chris @nwdiver93]

@PattyforGaPSC @HopfJames @Heather_mom4nuk @Atomicrod @energybants @BrianGitt @Dr_Keefer Because they don't care. It's evolved into a cult. Nuclear is the answer because nuclear is the answer. Nothing else works because nuclear is the answer. Nuclear because nuclear. Even if solar was free nuclear is the answer 🤦‍♂️

[Awaken Solar @AwakenSolar]

If you dont get bird 💩 and you live with rainy days...you don't need to do this for most residential home systems.

Let Mother nature clean em every month or so for FREE!

[Awaken Solar @AwakenSolar]

@PattyforGaPSC Cliff notes?

[Awaken Solar @AwakenSolar]

@ThurberTeam @scottlincicome Less blackouts in TX than CA 😉

[Scott Lincicome @scottlincicome]

"The ease of building and connecting new renewable projects in Texas relative to elsewhere has been one of the key reasons for the state’s clean energy boom.... [N]ew power generation takes about half as long to come online in Texas as elsewhere." https://t.co/5IkpCwQWOc

[Meghan Nutting @MeghanNutting]

"Residential solar + storage surged in California after NEM 3.0" is a very weird way of saying that installations under NEM 3.0 are down 75% compared to the same time period the year before. https://t.co/ON4nRAOPxO

[Awaken Solar @AwakenSolar]

@solarjedimaster I'm curious why more ground mount systems are slightly higher to allow use of the ground underneath for crops or livestock?

[Awaken Solar @AwakenSolar]

@smithtjosh @tylerhnorris Viewing it like boxing helps...

There is an old saying:
"To be the champ you gotta BEAT the champ!"

You need to win decisively, leaving it up to the judges likely means they will side with the champ/incumbent.

Good news: the new off-grid systems will beat the existing system!

[Awaken Solar @AwakenSolar]

@SolarInMASS Still faster than waiting on 100+ gallons to pump and fill up a semi-truck!

[Tom Erb @Erb_Tom10]

Micron just testified and flagged that the Boardman to Hemingway transmission line in the Pacific Northwest has taken nearly 20 years and $220 million to permit. That's completely unacceptable.

[Awaken Solar @AwakenSolar]

@SolarInMASS Would love to build you one ;)

[Duncan S. Campbell @duncancampbell]

This thing will start at $10k (USD) in Europe and get you 190 miles of range.

Cars like this will become the default over time because they're cheap to buy and cheap to run.

[Josh Smith @smithtjosh]

@AwakenSolar @tylerhnorris If the purpose of a system is what it does, then unnecessary red tape has only one function.

Protection for incumbents.

[Awaken Solar @AwakenSolar]

@Point_of_Gold @SolarInMASS Probably don't need more panels for their loads and/or the AHJ won't let them and/or the structural costs won't allow more...lots of reasons why this might have been best.

Cheaper mounting system than ballast too!

[Awaken Solar @AwakenSolar]

@SolarInMASS Batteries don't generate either...monkeys!!!

[Awaken Solar @AwakenSolar]

@SolarInMASS Making the colors red and yellow support seems counterintuitive 🤔

[Awaken Solar @AwakenSolar]

@SolarInMASS What's your fund rate on normal deals?

I'd guess these are much lower and sometimes there is insider baseball needed to win.