Checking in with CEO of Kauai Island Utility Cooperative, David Bissell, on their approved pumped storage hydro facility helping Kauai reach 90% renewables with a special long duration storage solution.

173 - KIUC CEO David Bissell PSH - Pumped Storage Hydro helping Kauai reach 90% Renewables

We head to Bobcaygeon, Ontario to see an off-grid, solar-powered cottage made out of steel shipping containers. Learn more at http://www.greenenergyfutures.ca/episode/sea-container-cabin-cottage-country

112. The Octopod: A cool, off-grid, solar powered, shipping container cottage design

Tune in to hear Josh and Jay talk with Billy Parish of Mosaic!

SolarCoaster - 110 - Billy Parish CEO Mosaic

Tune in to hear Shea discuss his upcoming two wheeled electric motorcycle streamliner land speed record attempt!

113 - SolarCoaster - Shea Nyquist  EV Bike Landspeed Record Attempt!

Join Josh and Jay as they meet up with renewable energy project pioneer Bruce Levy of BMR Energy!

Bruce deployed some of the first large scale solar and wind operations in the Caribbean and learned loads about how these projects can be made more resilient in the face of extreme weather conditions.

BMR was recently acquired by the Virgin group and now is a part of Richard Branson's plans for incorporating more renewable energy projects throughout the Caribbean.    

Maui and greater Hawaii are on the cusp of the Phase 2 RFP for massive utility scale renewable energy deployments at this moment!  Bruce's insights may very well play a role in helping our community make informed decisions about these projects to help them last in the face of more and more extreme weather conditions ahead.

114 - SolarCoaster - BMR CEO Bruce Levy of Virgin Group Discuss Extreme Weather Resiliency!

Aloha and welcome to the future of solar. 

Hawaii is leading the way with its post NEM solar model and while utility scale solar is booming, residential solar is having a rough time!

Whats the best model to preserve citizen's choice and solar company jobs once the utility decides its ready to embrace solar wholeheartedly?

On our way to our 100% RPS ( renewable portfolio standard) will the local companies that paved the way be left to the wayside? Will homeowners energy autonomy be compromised or will we arrive at a new balance protecting all interested parties not just the big companies looking to make a profit? 

Who shares in the opportunity that clean energy provides?! 

Tune in to hear Will dig deep and provide tremendous insight into this world this week on the SolarCoaster!

119 - William Giese of HSEA talks about the health of our post NEM solar industry in Hawaii!

Join Josh and Jay as they dig DEEP with new on air commentary reviewing their Salt Lake City SPI 2019 - taped SolarEdge interview with Lior Handelsmen! 

Back home in Maui KAOI Studio's on air AM/FM the fellas discuss the impact of SolarEdge's culture of "relentless innovation" on installers, homeowners and even the financial markets. 

The discussion reads like a list of industry wide superlatives.  Whether its the new battery company acquisition allowing integration of up to 60kwh useable of world's leading NMC Chemistry to their solar systems...

....or their recently launched integrated level-2 EV charger( the highest power spec of any level 2 charger with the lowest install costs)

....or their awesome scaleable HD wave inverter technology allowing up to three (11.4 kw battery ready inverters to stack in one install..at 1.55 DC/AC ratio, does that mean you could stack  53kw DC max on roof!??!!)

...or the linear solar hot water system controller (very cool in post NEM/non grid back-feeding environs for absorbing the back of the duck curve when your batteries are already full!) 

or..............................YES THERE IS MORE !.... their newly offered smart switches allowing load curtailment during grid outages....

...SolarEdge is swinging for the proverbial fences offering all of us a glimpse of what the future of the world's energy companies ( not just "solar companies" anymore) will look like! 

Brian Thomas of Fairwinds Wealth Management, a regular contributor to the SolarCoaster explains that the markets are responding favorably to all of the above ...with #1 Market Leading ETF( electronically traded fund) at the time of airing, the absolute BULL that is TICKER SYMBOL :TAN.....is lead by  .... you guessed it ...SolarEdge..with the single largest percentage in the basket at 9.24%

TUNE IN, you don't want to miss this one!

127 - SolarEdge Cofounder Lior Handelsmen Talks New Expanded Solar Plus Offering at SPI 2019

With CES 2020 Las Vegas in full swing, Josh joins the fray and scours the dozen plus venues, 4500 exhibitors and 177,000 attendees to find energy innovation where-ever it may be hiding. 

Air mobility and new EV concepts captured all of our imagination and Bell's Nexus and Mercedes AVTR were two major highlights.  Check out the inside of the future of air mobility with one of Bell's head designers on site and explore the full technical ecosystem it'll take to finally get us to a "Jetsons" future. 

Then join us with Mercedes, 130 years in the future, as James Cameron's AVTR  plugs into Josh, reading his heartbeat as man and machine merge. 

A dozen more CES interviews are in the can and pending release. Stay close to the SolarCoaster where the worlds new energy future is uncovered one innovation at a time!

140 - Josh at CES 2020 Vegas Show #1 - Where Bell's Nexus VTOL and Mercedes AVTR take center stage

The SolarCoaster covers the fast evolving community, business and government response to the COVID-19 Pandemic.

We start out with a call in from Linda Puppolo from Maui County, discussing the new website to cover unemployment claims, training, SBA loans. 

https://www.mauiamericanjobcenter.com/

William Giese of HSEA calls in and reviews how the solar industry in Hawaii is responding.

http://www.hsea.org/

We wrap the show with a call in from Jen Oberg sharing her experience of Sewing masks for medical professionals around Maui county.

Email to:

Julie MacMillan -  HaleMahina1@gmail.com

SHOW NOTES:


Global
https://www.greentechmedia.com/articles/read/economics-of-european-solar-braced-to-ride-out-coronavirus-storm
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-03-27/global-solar-wind-growth-will-be-erased-this-year-rystad-says

Tech 
https://cleantechnica.com/2020/03/26/solar-fuel-yep-its-a-genuine-artificial-leaf/
Resi
C&I
National 
https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidblackmon/2020/03/25/solar-ceo-expand-investment-tax-credit-to-include-domestic-oil-and-gas/#5a8a4ff63c06
https://pv-magazine-usa.com/2020/03/26/guide-to-installing-residential-solar-amid-a-global-pandemic/
https://www.greentechmedia.com/articles/read/much-u.s-solar-manufacturing-continues-despite-covid-19-restrictions
https://arstechnica.com/cars/2020/03/tesla-plans-to-retool-solar-panel-factory-to-make-medtronic-ventilators/
Hawaii 
https://news.un.org/en/story/2020/03/1059832
https://pv-magazine-usa.com/2020/03/27/morning-brief-hawaii-is-installing-batteries-to-support-solar-and-wind-ted-danson-on-energy-storage/
https://bigislandnow.com/2020/03/13/rising-sun-solar-implements-precautions-due-to-covid-19/
https://www.hawaii.edu/news/2020/03/11/uh-team-wins-heco-challenge/
https://www.staradvertiser.com/2020/03/25/breaking-news/developer-of-palehua-wind-farm-in-waianae-withdraws-its-bid/

Finance 
https://www.fool.com/investing/2020/03/26/why-general-electric-vivint-solar-and-clean-energy.aspx
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-03-27/global-solar-wind-growth-will-be-erased-this-year-rystad-says

151 - Community Resilience: Linda Puppolo - Maui Cty , Will Giese - HSEA, Jen Oberg - Maui Mask Fund

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