Utility Scale Solar
topic on 2 shows · 9 statements across 9 episodes
9 statements about Utility Scale Solar, every show
Paruri: Utility-scale solar accounts for 80% of the solar market
“Utility scale solar is 80% of the market, right?”
Hershman: Truck logistics, not labor, is solar construction's primary bottleneck
“The amount of trucks that we have to move becomes the gating activity, not the amount of people, right?”
Dumoulin-Smith: Utility-scale solar faces supply deficit from data center demand
“Look, utility scale solar, look, the reality is that market is principally driven by CNI demand, commercial and industrial demand. What is that? Effectively, it amounts to tech companies, data center demand, right? Like, am I really worried substantively that …”
Kann: Solar modules are now a minority of utility-scale project costs
“In utility scale solar, you know, the module is a minority share of the overall project cost. And so most of the costs now fall into a combination of the balance of systems and then increasingly not the hardware, right? It's labor and interconnection and permi…”
Shah: Warehouse rooftop solar may be cheaper net-net than utility-scale solar
“And so, and when you look at, you know, interconnection cues from utility-scale solar and that kind of stuff, it may actually end up being net-net cheaper to put solar on these four-acre warehouse rooftops than to put it in the middle of a field.”
O'Donnell: Recent Middle East utility-scale solar reached 1.3 cents per kWh
“Recent projects in the Middle East have seen utility scale solar at 1.3 cents a kilowatt hour.”
Davis: Corporate and utility buyers drive the majority of US solar procurement
“The primary drivers of utility scale solar procurement, at least, are corporate buyers signing contracts and voluntary procurement on the part of utilities. That's where the majority of utility scale solar, or how the majority of utility scale solar is procure…”
Texas is poised to surpass California in utility-scale solar deployment
“You can look at what renewables are doing in Texas, which is arguably the most free electricity market in the country and they're adding so much solar that they're about to or perhaps even have passed California in terms of utility scale solar deployment with …”
Kann: Solar modules represent a minority share of utility-scale project costs
“And in utility scale solar, you know, the module is a minority share of the overall project cost. And so most of the costs now fall into a combination of the balance of systems. And then increasingly, Not the hardware, right? It's labor and interconnection and…”