rooftop solar

6 statements across 6 episodes · 2 bullish · 2 bearish · 6 people on the record · first statement Mar 11, 2022 by Astrid Atkinson · across every show →

Everything said about rooftop solar, oldest first

Mar 11, 2022 negative
Assertion Supported
Atkinson: High solar saturation in Hawaii and Australia causes utility pushback and installation limits
“One of the things that we've seen go into place in places like Hawaii and Australia, where this is also an issue, is that you'll start to see limitations on how much solar can go in, whether that's limiting new installs or limiting the size of the install. You…”
Astrid Atkinson Mar 11, 2022 ▶ 14:15 What the grid can learn from the internet
May 26, 2022 positive
Insight
Bhatraju: Rooftop solar should be the entry point to whole-home electrification
“I think, you know, rooftop solar companies do this amazing feat, which is sell someone a 20, 25 year power plant on their roof. But it really should be the entry point to whole home electrification, all those little products stacking up value and management fo…”
Kiran Bhatraju May 26, 2022 ▶ 39:43 Tapping the goldmine of consumer energy data
Dec 1, 2022 positive
Assertion Supported
Chase: EU is proposing one-month automatic rooftop solar permitting
“So the European Union is proposing to More or less automatically allow rooftop solar nearly anywhere with a permitting time of a month.”
Jenny Chase Dec 1, 2022 ▶ 13:58 Unpopular solar opinions, 2022 edition
Oct 19, 2023 negative
Assertion Supported
Kann: Solar companies abandoned efficiency retrofits due to high sales friction
“In the early days of rooftop solar, some of those companies, SolarCity being an example, you know, dabbled in like, oh, maybe we should do an energy efficiency retrofit at the same time that we do rooftop solar. They all backed away from that, because it ended…”
Shayle Kann Oct 19, 2023 ▶ 24:45 The pace of home electrification
Sep 24, 2024 neutral
Assertion Supported
Johnson: One in three Australian homes have rooftop solar
“So if you take Australia, for example, where one in three homes have rooftop solar, I think that's about 20 gigawatts of solar, so a very similar solar install capacity to somewhere like Texas”
Charlotte Johnson Sep 24, 2024 ▶ 6:54 The state of connected DERs [partner content]
Jul 10, 2025 neutral
Opinion
Dumoulin-Smith: Standalone residential storage market remains modest
“Look, I don't necessarily think there's a sizable storage standalone business, at least relative to the size and scope of what we're looking at today in, you know, solar and storage and solar only, right? Like, that's Like, obviously, it's there. It's just as …”
Julian Dumoulin-Smith Jul 10, 2025 ▶ 33:11 Tumult in residential solar
Made with StarZero

Turn any episode into a week of clips.

This entire site, over 200 episodes transcribed, diarized, checked and made playable, runs on the StarZero media pipeline. Drop in your own episode and the podcast clipper finds the moments worth sharing, cuts them, captions them, and reframes them for every feed.