James McGinnis
CEO & Co-Founder, David Energy. On 1 show, 1 appearance. The Shows tab opens the full record on each.
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James McGinniss is the CEO and co-founder of David Energy, a retail electricity supplier and software platform. He advocates for plug-in distributed energy resources and virtual power plants.
1shows
1appearances
12statements
8resolved
5supported
1contradicted
63%fully supported
Everything James McGinnis said on any show that made the record, most notable first. Each card names its show and opens the statement there.
McGinnis: Permissionless plug-in systems can eliminate residential install soft costs
“Permissionless can effectively Put that to zero. Because two of the big components there are three of the big components are permitting labor and CAC. And so think about a buy online motion where a consumer is just going to Amazon and buying one of these and p…”
McGinnis: Rising electric bills will drive mass adoption of DIY plug-in energy
“The more that we see bills go up in the U.S., regardless of what the rules out there are, people are gonna go on Amazon, they're gonna start buying the stuff, they're gonna start plugging it in, and so I think this is coming one way or another, and it's really…”
McGinnis: US will deploy tens of gigawatts of plug-in DERs by 2036
“Again, if you look to Germany, like, doing a gigawatt in a handful of years in what is a much smaller, you know, country than ours, it wouldn't shock me to see tens of gigawatts deployed in the next five to 10 years in the US where that's actually making a mea…”
McGinnis: Current NEC Guidance Permits Behind-the-Meter Plug-In Batteries
“At the sort of electrical code level, these are, this is already allowed under the current guidance, and there are many products that support that. So from that lens, you could say in most places you can go out and buy these things and plug them in in whatever…”
McGinnis: 24 US States Have Introduced Plug-In Grid Export Bills
“A lot of the attention that's happened recently around regulations is specifically there's bills now introduced in I think it's up to 30 states, or sorry, 24 states with maybe 30 soon Introducing bills where you can actually export to the grid through these de…”
McGinnis: Standard 120V and 240V outlets are pre-existing bi-directional grid interconnections
“The 120 volts or the 240 volt outlet is a pre-existing bi-directional interconnection point on the grid that you can actually push power into, and it's safe to do so at the circuit level.”
McGinnis: State Plug-In DER Legislation Typically Caps Grid Export at 1.2 kW
“A lot of these rules that are being introduced in past are focusing on anything up to typically, 1.2 kilowatts is, You can export that amount from a meter from a home, and it's really even narrowly focused on consumer applications.”
McGinnis: Germany adopted 4M balcony solar units exceeding 1GW in four years
“And really remarkable there is in the last four years or so they've seen four million of these systems adopted. So four million in homes or apartments, wherever you think about it. Whereas that's about the same size as the traditional single-family installs, w…”
McGinnis: Commercial plug-in DER install costs are under 10% of system costs
“And what we've seen is in the commercial application installed costs of like less than 10% of system costs and it's closer to zero because all those soft costs are gone.”
McGinnis: Soft costs account for over 50% of residential energy installs
“An easy rule of thumb is that soft costs are typically 50% or more of a residential install.”
McGinnis: NYC commercial peak load shaving saves $50 monthly per kilowatt
“Some of the work we've seen in New York City, you know, it's about 50 dollars per month per kilowatt shaved, which to a small business actually can mean a lot, especially if they own 10 locations or so, and if you're doing a couple kilowatts, then that can be …”
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 CATALYSTLEDGER | CEO & Co-Founder, David Energy | 1 | 12 | 63% 5/8 | full record on Catalyst → |