Random excerpts: “we honestly have so many soft costs in the DER world – there’s the business, and then there’s the business – headwinds just because they don’t have a capacity market – how do you empower the people? – shout out to people who do storm duty – simplicity is important – piss-poor enforcement – biggest soft cost I see in most of these things is actually education – scaling things that are known to work – homogenizing the electrical code – two incentives that were now competing with each other – real-time pricing – Texas has built more solar than the rest of the country – more to do with standard processes and easy permitting – they would never talk to each other – reverse hacking the APIs – in competition with zero marginal cost and the markets will fail – be okay with pissing a few people off – it is very frustrating that opt-in real-time pricing is still very scarce across the US – very angry and upset – some people are getting the data and some people aren’t – because of utility blocking your information source – fined $1.5 million – 10 years I’ve been focused on getting access to data – you have to have this information – rethinking of the way in which our markets are structured – utility lobbyists – like a glaring hard cost, like this: humans are hardware – if I’m not there, that person who’s in charge of billions of dollars of investment from utilities in their home state literally doesn’t hear it – no ratepayer dollars, go to utility lobbyists … that should be prohibited – an amalgam of different kinds of solutions because you’re trying to chase a shape – they’ve decided to go with a walled garden approach – prohibited from accessing interval usage data – they wanted access to the data that it affords you and the commission said, no – don’t want to be held to a standard – they’re often afraid and timid of using that power – asking utilities nicely to please provide information – consequences – this ain’t working – a big shout out to Ecosuite and all of our panellists.”