Community Solar in PA | Solar Highways | Viking Solar | Clean Power Hour Ep.16

Community Solar is growing in Pennsylvania! MaybeAmerica’s highways are an significant opportunity for solar PVThe Vikings are coming for your hydro and floating solar opportunityTax revenue from community and utility scale solar is helping rural communitiesIt’s Day 10 of the Solar 500 Challenge - give us a thumbs up and please subscribe to the Channel! Share the channel with your friends and please comment - we love to hear from our viewers. See Ep 132 of energy transition show re Solar forecast 1. $4.2 million in land lease payments for current 1 GW of solar capacity in the pipeline -https://commercialsolarguy.com/2020/10/19/community-solar-in-pennsylvania-offering-4-2-million-in-land-lease-payments-a-year/2. Scatec - big solar developer - buys hydroelectric company (image the rolodex) - https://www.pv-tech.org/news/scatec-solar-to-acquire-hydropower-developer-touts-floating-solar-potential3. America’s highways have significant solar potentialhttps://pv-magazine-usa.com/2020/10/13/americas-highways-have-significant-solar-potential/4. Meyer Berger in the factory video - https://amp-zdf-de.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/amp.zdf.de/nachrichten/heute-in-deutschland/im-osten-geht-die-sonne-wieder-auf-100.htmlA corollary - list of 5 potenal large volume module manufacturers in Europe, plus this solar cell manufacturer, -https://www.greentechmedia.com/articles/read/5-would-be-giga-scale-solar-manufacturers5. ‘'panels installed in Europe in 1982...One of the encapsulate recipes retained 95% of the power they had 35 years' 'printed circuit board is large sheet of foil bonded to solar cell, allows ~85% of the metal (silver) on the solar cell to be eliminated'--50 year warranty-- https://www.solarpowerworldonline.com/2020/10/everything-we-know-about-the-newest-u-s-solar-panel-manufacturer-violet-power/6. Fluence buys AMS - smarter solar plus storage - right now I’m talking with STEM on a project - below a single shipping container seems a financial challenge - https://www.greentechmedia.com/articles/read/storage-supplier-fluence-acquires-ams-for-market-dispatch-software7. ‘One reason solar remains so popular in states like NC: new projects drive a nearly **2,000%** avg increase in annual tax revenue per parcel - a major new source of funding for rural, economically distressed counties to invest in Support the showConnect with Tim  Clean Power Hour  Clean Power Hour on YouTubeTim on TwitterTim on LinkedIn Email [email protected] Review Clean Power Hour on Apple PodcastsThe Clean Power Hour is produced by the Clean Power Consulting Group and created by Tim Montague. Contact us by email:  [email protected] sponsors who share our mission to speed the energy transition are invited to check out https://www.cleanpowerhour.com/support/The Clean Power Hour is brought to you by CPS America, maker of North America’s number one 3-phase string inverter, with over 6GW shipped in the US. With a focus on commercial and utility-scale solar and energy storage, the company partners with customers to provide unparalleled performance and service. The CPS America product lineup includes 3-phase string inverters from 25kW to 275kW, exceptional data communication and controls, and energy storage solutions designed for seamless integration with CPS America systems.  Learn more at www.chintpowersystems.com