Local energy is an express lane for climate change. People can pull into the express lane, contribute in a personal way, and get great business value.
After leaving IBM a few years ago, Nussey was worried that solar was going to stop getting cheaper. He wanted to understand the science side and asked around the US for a mentor. He foundout of Georgia Tech, who gave Nussey optimism that the price of solar going to continue to drop. Over dinner, Damiani started rattling off ideas about how to reduce the price, and one stood out to Nussey, the configurable current cell .
Their process will make a 300 watt panel into a 303 watt panel. It’s a small percentage, but it’s an incremental innovation in a mature industry, that is easy to implement. By comparison, shifting to physical half-cells requires massive factory capital investment for 5 watts, so achieving 60% of the value with reduced costs through a process tweak is very attractive.take a lot of time and money. Patents are a double-edged sword, abused by some in ways that undermine the industry.
Utilities in Georgia and the south consider themselves very beneficent, supporting little league teams and the like. But they do it very much with themselves in control. The biggest problem in the south is the utilities’ ability to influence the regulators. Alabama regulators were convinced by the regulator to add punitive fees for every watt of solar put on a roof, which undermines the benefits of rooftop solar.
Hawaii is Nussey’s favorite exemplar state. It has terrible constraints and so is ridiculously innovative from a policy point of view. Half of the solar is on rooftops, and when constraints arose, they came up with policies to support local batteries as well. The state is showing us what is possible with a really dense local energy system.
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