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Shah: Net metering's value declines past 5% solar penetration
“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.”
Shah: Zero-backfeed VPPs bypass utility permission hurdles by only offsetting load
“And so if you make a simplifying assumption, which is that no one is backfeeding anything into the grid. Right? Right? That the batteries you know, basically use case here is to make your home go off grid. Right? Sort of an energy efficiency play. So your home…”
Shah: Climate tech startups understand equity but are unequipped for debt
“The vast majority of companies like Monolith that come into the loan programs office are experts at equity and not really well staffed on debt. And they don't really think debt, they think equity. And as a result, they think, The grass is always greener, and t…”
Shah: Electric utilities value dispatchable home batteries over rooftop solar generation
“I think we're just at a point now where people recognize that what's really of value to the electric utility company is dispatchability. Right? It's not the generation of power on rooftops. It's the battery that's actually in the home.”
Shah: Hydrogen and ammonia create massive option value for renewable power
“So I just think that people are so myopic in the way that they think about traditional solar and wind models, that they think that the price of this stuff is going to zero. But in fact, the option value has now just gone up substantially.”