Distributed Storage: The Killer App for Solar?

The Energy Gang

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🗓️ 16 December 2013

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

There convergence of solar and distributed batteries is underway. Although the use of storage is still very limited in the solar sector, more companies are looking to bring new value to customers by pairing the two technologies. In this week's podcast, the Gang will look at some new business models for customer-sited storage, which include targeting buyers of solar PV. We'll also look at the progress of California's cap and trade market one year after implementation, and speculate about whether President Obama's latest staff shakeup will influence energy policy. The Energy Gang is produced by Greentechmedia.com. The show features weekly discussion between energy futurist Jigar Shah, energy policy expert Katherine Hamilton and Greentech Editor Stephen Lacey. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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0:00.0	For the week of December 16th, 2013, this is the Energy Gang Podcast from Green
0:09.6	Tech Media. media.
0:15.0	Stephen Lacey here in Washington, senior editor at Green Tech Media.
0:20.0	Also with me in DC is Catherine Hamilton, a partner at 38 North Solutions, the clean energy public policy consulting firm.
0:28.0	Hey there, Catherine, I'm so sad I missed your office holiday party this week.
0:33.6	That's okay.
0:34.1	D.C. has been plagued with what I would call snow events in air quotes
0:38.5	because you know, as you know, it doesn't really snow
0:41.4	but everything shuts down anyway.
0:43.0	Did your party get shut down?
0:45.0	No, we were good, but we're supposed to get more snow tomorrow.
0:48.0	Yeah, well, I love it.
0:50.0	I was just out in San Diego and it's hard for me to get in the Christmas spirit, the holiday spirit,
0:54.8	without cold weather and snow, so I embrace it.
0:59.2	And out there in San Francisco is Jiggershaw, a clean tech investor energy futur
1:03.6	and author of the book Creating Climate Wealth. Are you feeling festive out in California this week
1:08.0	Jigger? I am I was actually at this hotel yesterday that had four and a half foot high gingerbread houses.
1:17.0	Actually made of gingerbread, so it's like smelled of gingerbread when you went in.
1:21.6	It's pretty cool. Were there any like battery backup systems made of candy or any solar panels made of ribbon candy?
1:28.4	Well, you know, the funny thing is they did have one house with solar panels on it but the other thing was that they were
1:34.3	all lit up so they're clearly electric so they put some like LEDs in.
1:38.7	All right there you go sustainability coming to the gingerbread movement. In this week's show we're going to talk about
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