solar industry

“They promised the same thing, and now we ended up is with hundreds of people with certificates that are useless. Certificates for solar that, where there are no jobs.”

“One of the other lessons from solar was like the best technology on paper did not necessarily win out. What won out at the end of the day was who could get to scale and who could manufacture quickly when the market was ramping. And I think we'll see something …”

“We have the most important piece of legislation ever passed to support the solar industry that is being rolled out and implemented now with a lot of open questions around that.”

“I think we've always known that net metering has declining value beyond sort of five percent penetration, and, but when you get to five percent penetration, the solar industry has so much political power that they're able to keep things going.”

“So far, the entire cultivated meat industry has had about three billion dollars worth of investment in its entire history, and right, the Inflation Reduction Act is, you know, building battery factories in Georgia for that, that are going to be twice that and …”

“You know, you had trade policy, which kept the industry alive for a long time. It didn't necessarily allow it to reach the scale that it is now. But, you know, I think there'd been a focus and an effort to reshore, you know, even prior to the Inflation Reducti…”

“Electric vehicles have obviously had, had this tremendous impact on, on batteries, but electric vehicles themselves benefited from early investments from the solar industry in, ah, power electronics, in wide band gap semiconductor materials, which enable highe…”