Eric Wesoff
Executive Director and Board Member, Canary Media. On 1 show, 4 appearances. The Shows tab opens the full record on each.
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Eric Wesoff co-founded Canary Media in 2021 to cover the clean energy transition, climate tech investing, and grid modernization. He previously served as editor-in-chief of Greentech Media and senior editor at pv magazine, establishing a career reporting on solar energy and decarbonization.
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1said about them ↓ Everything Eric Wesoff said on any show that made the record, most notable first. Each card names its show and opens the statement there.
Wesoff: All advanced nuclear reactor designs are untested paper reactors
“All of the reactors in the advanced reactor population are paper reactors. We haven't built them. We haven't tested them.”
Wesoff: SMRs are engineering solutions misapplied to financial and PR problems
“Small reactors, SMRs, are a nuclear engineering solution to a financial problem. We need a financial solution to this financial problem. Small modular reactors are a nuclear engineering, engineering solution to a PR problem. We need a PR solution to that, not …”
Wesoff: Nuclear industry should build AP1000 reactors over novel designs
“We should be figuring out how to build AP 1000 instead of flailing around trying to find silver bullet designs that will rescue this industry.”
Wesoff: Ultra-cheap solar and storage may make advanced nuclear concepts obsolete
“We're gonna have amazingly cheap, abundant solar. Combined with storage, we may not need all of these advanced energy ideas.”
Westhoff: US Is No More Suited to Solar Manufacturing Than iPhones
“However, I have to say that the United States is no more suitable to solar manufacturing than it is to iPhone manufacturing.”
Westhoff: Auxin Solar Is an Uncompetitive Manufacturer Seeking Government Aid
“I would suggest that they are just an uncompetitive manufacturer looking for any help they can get.”
Wesoff: SolarCity would have gone bankrupt without Tesla's $2.6B acquisition
“If Tesla had not purchased SolarCity for 2.6 billion dollars plus the assumption of a couple of billion dollars worth of debt, SolarCity would for sure have gone bankrupt within a couple of months.”
Wesoff: Tech billionaires trying to disrupt nuclear with software will fail
“We have these hordes of software developer billionaires thinking that they can disrupt the nuclear industry just like you can disrupt the software industry, and I think they're going to be sadly disappointed very soon.”
Wesoff: NuScale SMR footprints exceed traditional 1.2 gigawatt reactor sizes
“The modular reactor from NuScale is 76 feet tall, so that's not exact. If you're thinking it's the size of a bread box, it's not. It's 76 feet tall, and when you're building a twelve-pack of these modular NuScale reactors, the size of the civil works that you …”
Wesoff: South Korea aligns nuclear construction incentives better than the U.S.
“In places like, say, South, South Korea, the folks who design The nuclear plant and build the nuclear plant are also the same people, in many cases, are the same people who operate and maintain the nuclear plant, and all of their incentives are aligned, and th…”
Westhoff: Auxin Solar froze the $10 billion US solar market
“In a world where Chinese manufacturers are at gigawatt and 10 gigawatt and 50 gigawatt capacities, aux and solar is relatively inconsequential on the world stage, and yet they're still able to essentially freeze the ten billion dollar U.S. Solar industry.”
Westhoff: Tariffs Give the US the World's Highest Solar Module Costs
“In fact, the United States has the highest cost solar modules in the world because we are taxing ourselves with tariffs.”
Westhoff: US Energy Transition Cannot Happen Without Imports
“The energy transition does not happen in the United States without imports.”
Wesoff: Tesla likely would not exist today without $465M DOE loan guarantee
“Without that diving save of getting that venture capital, and without the half a billion dollars in loan guarantee, it's quite likely that the Tesla of today would not exist.”
Wesoff: Tesla had barely installed 1,000 solar roofs total by 2021
“Despite ridiculous promises about spooling up to 1000 roofs per week, I would say that he's barely installed a thousand roofs with the product, and it went through four different revisions over the course of the first few years.”
Wesoff: Despite Musk's lies, Tesla catalyzed the global energy transition
“They are forcing the curve on EVs. They're forcing the price structure of batteries. It's hard not to see them as one of the greatest forces of the last decade in catalyzing the energy transition. For all of the lying and prevaricating and questionable busines…”
Wesoff: Only 20-25% of nuclear plant costs come from equipment
“Only 25%, 20 to 25% of the cost of a nuclear site stems from the actual equipment itself, the reactor vessel, the fuel rods. 50% of the cost of a nuclear project is due to the cost of installation, the cost of building reinforced concrete and the steel that's …”
Wesoff: DOE is funding too many advanced reactor designs instead of standardizing
“There are too many advanced reactor designs being looked at by the DOE and the industry. That's an enormous problem right there. We need to pick a design and stop this first-of-a-kind nonsense.”
Wesoff: Current climate tech boom will not repeat Cleantech 1.0 bust
“Those of us who have lived through a bubble might see certain parallels this time, and this is certainly not your grandmother's venture capital bubble. It's a very different situation. The societal impetus for acknowledging climate change, the bank and financi…”
Westhoff: Solar Protectionism Unites Obama, Trump, and Biden Administrations
“We've seen them enacted during the Obama administration, we've seen them during the Trump administration, and we've seen them continued under the Biden administration. Turns out there's one thing that they can all agree on is, ah, protectionism.”
Westhoff: Solar manufacturers halt US shipments over retroactive tariff risk
“Not only is it raising prices for power purchase agreements, not only is it causing paroxysms within the developer world, But it's causing manufacturers to stop shipping to the United States because they're afraid of tariffs, and more importantly, retroactive …”
Westhoff: 65% of 2022-2023 US solar projects threatened by tariff probe
“Surveys by industry groups, whether it be SEIA or American Clean Power have found that 65% of the projects that are on the books in the United States in 20, 22 and 23 are threatened.”
Westhoff: Biden Clean Energy Promises Are Empty Rhetoric Under Solar Tariffs
“And Biden is also a union man, and there's a union aspect to keeping manufacturing going in the United States, and so Biden has to balance that out, but it's empty rhetoric if you're going to cut the industry off at its ankles with a tariff, and to then say we…”
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| GREEN BLUEPRINTLEDGER | Executive Director and Board Member, Canary Media | 4 | 40 | 89% 16/18 | full record on the Green Blueprint → |