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JAdams: Solar in COVID-19

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NANO 1: What thought styles, semiotic ideologies, and phenomenologies are in play in imagining and responding to the impacts of COVID-19 on energy systems, energy use, and knowledge of energy?

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“John Berger, CEO of Houston-based Sunnova Energy International Inc., a residential solar and storage service company… said that despite the disruption caused by COVID-19, his company's first quarter this year showed nearly 7,000 new customers, the company's best quarter in its history.‘The uncertainty brought upon by COVID-19 has shown us the world may be more fragile than we originally thought, magnifying the importance of being self-reliant and further proving the economic and societal value of solar plus storage,’ he said during a May 15 earnings call.”

JAdams: Climate Determinism

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Energy in COVID-19

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NANO 1: What thought styles, semiotic ideologies, and phenomenologies are in play in imagining and responding to the impacts of COVID-19 on energy systems, energy use, and knowledge of energy?

Simon Donner argues that climate determinism colors some of the reporting and rhetoric of the impacts of climate change on impoverished communities and nations. He argues that investment in adaptation is being stunted by claims that certain communities are simply doomed.