This TIME article, with its description of asset backed securities and the (extreme) costs of financing in US rooftop solar really shook me. I really wonder if anyone has clarity into the extent to which those US soft costs aren’t just marketing.

time.com/6565415/roof...

ht to @volts.wtf for the recommendation. Truly worth a read for anyone interested in thinking deeply about how we might want to run utilities in the future.

Yeah, I tried Mastodon out, but I could never get into it. I’m new here, but it seems to have more of the old energy twitter vibe.