PODCAST: Reporting back from the renewable USA, climate protests… and what’s next for nuclear?

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Soleil Lofts, a ‘100% electric’ housing complex and community partway under construction in Utah. Sonnen invited Energy-Storage.news along to see the development, which will inclulde 12.6MWh of battery energy storage systems in a virtual power plant. Image: Andy Colthorpe / Solar Media.

Energy-Storage.news editor Andy Colthorpe reports back from Solar Power International 2019 in Salt Lake City on trends including bifacial PV modules, corporate PPAs, utilities and energy storage as a grid infrastructure asset and lots more. Solar Media’s editor in chief Liam Stoker discusses what’s next for nuclear after EDF’s latest Hinkley Point C update, and the two reflect on an important week for the climate crisis as Greta Thunberg inspires global protests, as well as the ire of a handful of detractors.

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