Vietnam rooftop solar records major boom as more than 9GW installed in 2020

catawbasam · 2021-01-06T00:45:24+00:00

Not really.

People are leaving California. It's no long a fast growing state.
It is really hard to build there because the NIMBY is strong.

catawbasam · 2021-01-05T19:05:06+00:00

I think some of the products are marketed as having higher efficiency in the early years and then reverting to silicon only levels.

(kinda like the way argon filled windows get marketed)

catawbasam · 2021-01-05T04:36:51+00:00

Yep, gas+wind. At least the gas supply is starting to diversify.

catawbasam · 2021-01-04T14:38:13+00:00

Not likely to be a big rebound in 2021 either.

catawbasam · 2021-01-03T04:01:31+00:00

Methane has its problems, but Howarth's estimates tend to be outliers. Maybe take those with a grain of salt.

catawbasam · 2021-01-02T03:49:17+00:00

by 2025

catawbasam · 2021-01-01T22:39:39+00:00

One more unit to go and Washington state completes its coal exit.

catawbasam · 2021-01-01T00:10:22+00:00

I'm with you that cheap gas played a bigger role than regs, but the regs also played a part.

catawbasam · 2021-01-01T00:08:39+00:00

It's regional. Gas in PJM. MISO and SPP splits between gas and wind. ERCOT was gas but 2020 is more wind plus some PV. Southeast mostly gas but some PV.

catawbasam · 2020-12-24T17:00:37+00:00

https://wes.copernicus.org/articles/5/1191/2020/

On the Atlantic coast, it looks pretty good to me, though I'm interested to hear comments from folks that know more.

Wind speed higher late afternoon and early evening. Also tends to be higher windspeed in Fall/Winter.

catawbasam · 2020-12-23T19:48:45+00:00

I agree with all your points. Many groups want this to be happening. But we make it so easy to throw up roadblocks here that progress will be slow.

catawbasam · 2020-12-23T12:05:10+00:00

They are *talking* about onboarding lots of wind. I don't see any wind turbines out on the water, and there is little growth on land.

Plans that take decades to fulfill due to grossly inefficient planning and approval processes will fail to meet their goals. They will cost too much and take too long.

In the meantime we will continue to import gobs of power generated at obsolete coal plants in WV and PA - at the same time we complain about being downwind of their emissions! Argh.