Jenny Chase

@solar_chase

Solar analyst with BloombergNEF, goose keeper. Author of "Solar Power Finance Without the Jargon". Opinions expressed are all my own.

Switzerland
Vrijeme pridruživanja: studeni 2014.

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  1. Prikvačeni tweet
    13. lis 2019.

    1. Time to make minor updates to my unpopular opinions thread, since this seems to be a good way to organize thoughts. If you like these, you’ll like my book, Solar Power Without the Jargon.

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  2. 2. velj

    Child is almost certainly making up words and confidently and consistently pretending they are Swiss German (which neither of her parents speak). Unless "Bossebuscherer" is really a caterpillar and a butterfly or dragonfly is something like "Marschiner".

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  3. 31. sij

    Today, internal discussions using much data have concluded: - Spain is sunnier than Italy, to the surprise of no British holidaymaker ever - Italy has about twice as much installed PV as Spain (this actually surprised me, Italy was a slow burner while Spain was a flameout)

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  4. 31. sij

    Obviously I agree with all of this but also regret that the book was published before Spain's new and most interesting chapter, the surge of unsubsidised rooftop and merchant ground mounted solar projects!

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  5. 30. sij

    I feel the need to share this delightful page from "Eager" by Ben Goldfarb about how the Scottish beavers were reintroduced. "Paul and Louise may not have actively released beavers, but they hadn't managed to keep them confined."

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  6. 30. sij

    Also, to be fair, sometimes innovations do work and catch on really fast - like bifacial module designs and diamond wire saws, both of which I did not see coming. Progress happens, usually not in the ways you expect.

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  7. 30. sij

    "But Meyer Burger sells the manufacturing lines and they're a reputable company!" Yes, I have no reason to diss Meyer Burger (great diamond wire saws)! But so were Oerlikon Solar and Applied Materials.

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  8. 30. sij

    Sadly, after 14 years covering solar, everything new now reminds me of something that failed before. But seriously, thin film silicon is an easy material to make PV modules with and a really hard material to make *good* PV modules with. (Panasonic HIT is good but expensive).

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  9. 30. sij

    Am I just old, or is the craze for heterojunction module factories basically a rerun of the Applied Materials Sunfab & Oerlikon Solar microcrystalline silicon module disaster, just with an extra layer. (21 companies bought factories from these two companies. 0 succeeded).

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    26. sij

    Started reading ‘s book where I come across this interesting titbit on ,

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    24. sij

    A quick reminder that every moment spent arguing on here could be spent learning about how beaver dams can push water onto a floodplain and decrease stream velocity, thus increasing sediment deposition and allowing, over time, for greater biodiversity

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  12. 24. sij

    The Yuin people had a ritualised whale hunting practice in cooperation with wild orcas, who got the tongues. A man would limp between two fires, signalling the orcas to drive other whales to shore. Europeans joined in, and soon one shot the lead orca, and that was that.

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  13. 24. sij

    European settlers brought sheep and cattle, which almost immediately caused overgrazing of the Aboriginal crops of grain and sweet potato, and compacted the soil. (Yes, this is item 99^78 of "things the European settlers fucked up badly").

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  14. 24. sij

    From Pascoe's Dark Emu: grindstones found at Cuddie Springs suggest that the Aboriginal people of New South Wales were grinding grains for baking 30,000 years ago (the Egyptians next invented baking, around 17,000 BC). They grew grain right across the hot center of Australia.

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  15. 23. sij

    Relevant to the other big news of the day, raising $161m for cultured meats. Hopefully, +1 to anyone who had "vat grown steak" in the SF Things Becoming Real bingo.

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  16. 22. sij

    Counterintuitive maths. (I'm afraid I had to set up an excel sheet to check it is true, but maybe I'm just dumber than most!). Thanks for pointing here.

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    21. sij

    I had a hunch that there's a bunch of similarities between cloud computing markets and energy market, and reading 's book "Solar Power Finance Without the Jargon" is SO useful. There are loads of relevant things to learn there, about decentralisation of supply.

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  18. 19. sij

    Child had quesadilla in a Mexican (well, Swiss Mexican) restaurant today and shouted enthusiastically "PIZZA" and honestly, where's the mistake. (Los Jalapenos, new restaurant in . We like it, it has draft beer, and it is open on Sundays when not much else is.)

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  19. 17. sij

    Changing my bio now to "Analyst. Author. Small and very unprofitable Independent Power Producer".

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  20. 17. sij

    Also, we should be putting solar on nearly all new buildings just to save some poor sod climbing a ladder carrying panels later. Scaffolding's expensive.

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  21. 17. sij

    The other tension here is that roof-mounted solar is at least twice as expensive to build as ground mounted solar. So, either way, someone on Twitter's gonna have a problem with it.

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