The weekend read: PV feed in, certified

As more renewable energy capacity is built, commissioned, and connected, grid stability concerns are driving rapid regulatory changes. In the European Union, regulatory changes are now building momentum. As the first mover, Germany has shown that achieving compliance can initially seem burdensome, but it can quickly be integrated into existing processes and platforms.
https://www.pv-magazine.com/2021/05/01/the-weekend-read-pv-feed-in-certified/
#renewable, #pv, #highlights, #policy, #assets, #energy, #markets

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The weekend read: PV feed in, certified

As more renewable energy capacity is built, commissioned, and connected, grid stability concerns are driving rapid regulatory changes. In the European Union, regulatory changes are now building momentum. As the first mover, Germany has shown that...

Array Technologies supplying trackers for potentially 4-GW solar project portfolio

Array Technologies has been awarded a contract for up to 4 GW of solar trackers from Primoris Services Corporation, a specialty contracting services provider that also provides solar installation through its renewable energy subsidiary. “Primoris Renewable Energy is one of the top solar contractors in the U.S., and we are pleased to expand our relationship…
https://www.solarpowerworldonline.com/2021/04/array-technologies-supplying-trackers-for-solar-project-portfolio/
#racking, #mounting, #projects, #tracking, #markets, #components, #news, #commercial

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Array Technologies supplying trackers for potentially 4-GW solar project portfolio

Array Technologies has been awarded a contract for up to 4 GW of solar trackers from Primoris Services Corporation, a specialty contracting services

Germany installed 548.6 MW of PV in March

In the first three months of 2021, newly installed solar capacity reached 1.42 GW.
https://www.pv-magazine.com/2021/04/30/germany-installed-548-6-mw-of-pv-in-march/
#modules, #pv, #markets, #germany, #photovoltaic, #photovoltaics, #plant

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Germany installed 548.6 MW of PV in March

In the first three months of 2021, newly installed solar capacity reached 1.42 GW.

German solar generates 40 GW for the first time

Germany is currently seeing cool, sunny weather, which is ideal for PV power generation. According to Energy Charts, the photovoltaic systems installed in the country have cracked the 40 GW mark for the first time.
https://www.pv-magazine.com/2021/04/28/german-solar-generates-40-gw-for-the-first-time/
#policy, #markets, #pv, #residential, #commercial, #industrial

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German solar generates 40 GW for the first time

Germany is currently seeing cool, sunny weather, which is ideal for PV power generation. According to Energy Charts, the photovoltaic systems installed in the country have cracked the 40 GW mark for the first time.

Hoosier Solar planning 1.6 GW of solar projects in the Hoosier state

Hoosier Solar Holdings is developing 1,600 MW of solar projects in economically distressed, rural communities across Indiana that have been designated as “Qualified Opportunity Zones.” Several solar and battery storage projects are currently in active development, and some of these projects are expected to be operational by 2023. “Indiana has a unique opportunity to take…
https://www.solarpowerworldonline.com/2021/04/hoosier-solar-planning-solar-projects-in-the-hoosier-state/
#projects, #markets, #utility, #storage, #news, #hoosiersolar, #inovateussolar

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Hoosier Solar planning 1.6 GW of solar projects in the Hoosier state

Hoosier Solar Holdings is developing 1,600 MW of solar projects in economically distressed, rural communities across Indiana that have been designated as

Going off-grid in the 2020s: Updated battery choices for today’s power needs

Describe an off-grid solar setup, and someone 20 years ago would imagine a remote cabin in the woods, with lead-acid batteries and diesel generators used as backup power. But in the 2020s, off-grid homes might be closer than you think — like, right next door. Many neighborhoods, either because of their geography or restrictions on…
https://www.solarpowerworldonline.com/2021/04/off-grid-batteries-for-todays-power-needs/
#featured, #batteries, #storage, #components, #markets, #residential

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Going off-grid in the 2020s: Updated battery choices for today's power needs

Describe an off-grid solar setup, and someone 20 years ago would imagine a remote cabin in the woods, with lead-acid batteries and diesel generators used

Sweden hits 1 GW milestone

The Scandinavian country saw the installation of more than 400 MW of PV systems last year. The Swedish solar market keeps being driven by rooftop PV.
https://www.pv-magazine.com/2021/04/01/sweden-hits-1-gw-milestone/
#pv, #scale, #commercial, #residential, #industrial, #utility, #markets

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Sweden hits 1 GW milestone

The Scandinavian country saw the installation of more than 400 MW of PV systems last year. The Swedish solar market keeps being driven by rooftop PV.

Markets, buyers & sellers, goods & services, and overall effectiveness

Markets do well with simple, uniform goods, with clearly-determinable, rapidly-ascertained effects, where buyers and sellers are each plentiful, the direct beneficiary, payor, and buy-side decisionmaker roles combined, the direct providor, payee, and sell-side decisionmaker roles combined, where individual recipient and contributor value is independent of systemic or environmental circumstances and factors, and external costs and benefits minimised.

Start relaxing or reversing any or multiple of those conditions and the market transactional fit wears exceeding poorly.

Adapted from a comment on @Joerg Fliege's post here.

#economics #markets #assumptions

Scientific materialism has been to humanity what supermarkets have been to our conception of food: the combination of marketing and variety has greatly convinced a significant portion of us that the supermarket is not only the origin of food but the best and only place to get it.

- Imam Marc Manley

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#الإسلام #education #educate #indoctrinate #administer #معاملات #scientism #science #materialism #scientificmaterialism #belief #epistemology #religion #market #markets #usury #fiat #fiatmoney #money #technocracy #freedom #Europe #Europeans #Western #WesternCivilization #ربا #history #culture #society #economics #Islam #Sharia #Shariah #Shariat #Sufi #Sufism #Muslim #Khalifa #muamalat #riba #تَصَوّف

Don't be an information-markets sucker

The debate on the information markets tends to split on the "it wants to be free" vs. "authors need to be paid" divide. That's misleading and confining.

There's content produced because some audiences (readers, viewers, listeners, etc.) will want to access it, for information, entertainment, distraction, or some mix of the above.

There's content produced because the author wants others to experience it: propaganda, indoctrination, advertising, disinformation.

A #tootstorm in 12 parts.

#information #markets #publicGoods #propaganda #news #journalism #fakeNews

https://mastodon.cloud/@dredmorbius/101678973535192556

Doc Edward Morbius ❌​ (@dredmorbius@mastodon.cloud)

@doctorow@mamot.fr The debate on the information markets tends to split on the "it wants to be free" vs. "authors need to be paid" divide. That's misleading and confining. There's content produced because some audiences (readers, viewers,...

Dreddit: Markets and Price-Setting: Thoughts on information, created goods and services, fixed-supply commodities, financial instruments, and other market values behave

I've been reflecting on Paul Mason's Postcapitalism, particularly as concerns what he identifies as a hum-dinger of information goods: Information goods destroy the price formation mechanism based on scarcity.

That's one of a few cases in which markets as price-setting mechanisms fail, or are subject to very high degrees of ambiguity...

Continued at the dreddit.

#economics #prices #markets #value #information #finance #luxury #assets

http://www.reddit.com/r/dredmorbius/comments/2jh7l7/markets_and_pricesetting_thoughts_on_information/

And the Woozle sez:

You can't have a market without regulation. Discuss.

From the Plus. You're a brave man, Mr. Hypertwin, even with the Yapadoodle blocked.

My view:

• What is typically called "the free market" is, in fact, an exceptional, special, and limited case.
• The evidence is that even in so-called free-market economies, huge amounts of transactions occur in other-than-free-market contexts. Government sector. Monopoly and cartel transactions. Very highly regulated or constrained markets. Markets in which legislated advantage is afforded a particular player. Markets in which a small cadre have gamed circumstances strongly to their advantage.
• That the "free market" itself is no panacea. It has very little future awareness and, as with evolution, is largely undirected. Even activities which are plainly highly deleterious or suicidal in the long run are pursued by "the market".
• That I'm not sure of any single preferred solution.

What Adam Smith's idealized market does provide is an ability for individual actors (firms, merchants, producers, consumers) to meet as equals. And if the parties aren't meeting as at least nominal equals, what you've got is no free market.

And Smith writes at great length over the regulatory environment which is required. As a counterexample: Calivinball.

@woozle@hey.iseeamess.com
#markets
#regulation
#FreeMarket