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mostlysignssomeportents · 1 year ago

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Cleantech has an enshittification problem

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EVs won't save the planet. Ultimately, the material bill for billions of individual vehicles and the unavoidable geometry of more cars-more traffic-more roads-greater distances-more cars dictate that the future of our cities and planet requires public transit – lots of it.

But no matter how much public transit we install, there's always going to be some personal vehicles on the road, and not just bikes, ebikes and scooters. Between deliveries, accessibility, and stubbornly low-density regions, there's going to be a lot of cars, vans and trucks on the road for the foreseeable future, and these should be electric.

Beyond that irreducible minimum of personal vehicles, there's the fact that individuals can't install their own public transit system; in places that lack the political will or means to create working transit, EVs are a way for people to significantly reduce their personal emissions.

In policy circles, EV adoption is treated as a logistical and financial issue, so governments have focused on making EVs affordable and increasing the density of charging stations. As an EV owner, I can affirm that affordability and logistics were important concerns when we were shopping for a car.

But there's a third EV problem that is almost entirely off policy radar: enshittification.

An EV is a rolling computer in a fancy case with a squishy person inside of it. While this can sound scary, there are lots of cool implications for this. For example, your EV could download your local power company's tariff schedule and preferentially charge itself when the rates are lowest; they could also coordinate with the utility to reduce charging when loads are peaking. You can start them with your phone. Your repair technician can run extensive remote diagnostics on them and help you solve many problems from the road. New features can be delivered over the air.

That's just for starters, but there's so much more in the future. After all, the signal virtue of a digital computer is its flexibility. The only computer we know how to make is the Turing complete, universal, Von Neumann machine, which can run every valid program. If a feature is computationally tractable – from automated parallel parking to advanced collision prevention – it can run on a car.

The problem is that this digital flexibility presents a moral hazard to EV manufacturers. EVs are designed to make any kind of unauthorized, owner-selected modification into an IP rights violation ("IP" in this case is "any law that lets me control the conduct of my customers or competitors"):

https://locusmag.com/2020/09/cory-doctorow-ip/

EVs are also designed so that the manufacturer can unilaterally exert control over them or alter their operation. EVs – even more than conventional vehicles – are designed to be remotely killswitched in order to help manufacturers and dealers pressure people into paying their car notes on time:

https://pluralistic.net/2023/07/24/rent-to-pwn/#kitt-is-a-demon

Manufacturers can reach into your car and change how much of your battery you can access:

https://pluralistic.net/2023/07/28/edison-not-tesla/#demon-haunted-world

They can lock your car and have it send its location to a repo man, then greet him by blinking its lights, honking its horn, and pulling out of its parking space:

https://tiremeetsroad.com/2021/03/18/tesla-allegedly-remotely-unlocks-model-3-owners-car-uses-smart-summon-to-help-repo-agent/

And of course, they can detect when you've asked independent mechanic to service your car and then punish you by degrading its functionality:

https://www.repairerdrivennews.com/2024/06/26/two-of-eight-claims-in-tesla-anti-trust-lawsuit-will-move-forward/

This is "twiddling" – unilaterally and irreversibly altering the functionality of a product or service, secure in the knowledge that IP law will prevent anyone from twiddling back by restoring the gadget to a preferred configuration:

https://pluralistic.net/2023/02/19/twiddler/

The thing is, for an EV, twiddling is the best case scenario. As bad as it is for the company that made your EV to change how it works whenever they feel like picking your pocket, that's infinitely preferable to the manufacturer going bankrupt and bricking your car.

That's what just happened to owners of Fisker EVs, cars that cost $40-70k. Cars are long-term purchases. An EV should last 12-20 years, or even longer if you pay to swap the battery pack. Fisker was founded in 2016 and shipped its first Ocean SUV in 2023. The company is now bankrupt:

https://insideevs.com/news/723669/fisker-inc-bankruptcy-chapter-11-official/

Fisker called its vehicles "software-based cars" and they weren't kidding. Without continuous software updates and server access, those Fisker Ocean SUVs are turning into bricks. What's more, the company designed the car from the ground up to make any kind of independent service and support into a felony, by wrapping the whole thing in overlapping layers of IP. That means that no one can step in with a module that jailbreaks the Fisker and drops in an alternative firmware that will keep the fleet rolling.

This is the third EV risk – not just finance, not just charger infrastructure, but the possibility that any whizzy, cool new EV company will go bust and brick your $70k cleantech investment, irreversibly transforming your car into 5,500 lb worth of e-waste.

This confers a huge advantage onto the big automakers like VW, Kia, Ford, etc. Tesla gets a pass, too, because it achieved critical mass before people started to wise up to the risk of twiddling and bricking. If you're making a serious investment in a product you expect to use for 20 years, are you really gonna buy it from a two-year old startup with six months' capital in the bank?

The incumbency advantage here means that the big automakers won't have any reason to sink a lot of money into R&D, because they won't have to worry about hungry startups with cool new ideas eating their lunches. They can maintain the cozy cartel that has seen cars stagnate for decades, with the majority of "innovation" taking the form of shitty, extractive and ill-starred ideas like touchscreen controls and an accelerator pedal that you have to rent by the month:

https://www.theverge.com/2022/11/23/23474969/mercedes-car-subscription-faster-acceleration-feature-price

Put that way, it's clear that this isn't an EV problem, it's a cleantech problem. Cleantech has all the problems of EVs: it requires a large capital expenditure, it will be "smart," and it is expected to last for decades. That's rooftop solar, heat-pumps, smart thermostat sensor arrays, and home storage batteries.

And just as with EVs, policymakers have focused on infrastructure and affordability without paying any attention to the enshittification risks. Your rooftop solar will likely be controlled via a Solaredge box – a terrible technology that stops working if it can't reach the internet for a protracted period (that's right, your home solar stops working if the grid fails!).

I found this out the hard way during the covid lockdowns, when Solaredge terminated its 3G cellular contract and notified me that I would have to replace the modem in my system or it would stop working. This was at the height of the supply-chain crisis and there was a long waiting list for any replacement modems, with wifi cards (that used your home internet rather than a cellular connection) completely sold out for most of a year.

There are good reasons to connect rooftop solar arrays to the internet – it's not just so that Solaredge can enshittify my service. Solar arrays that coordinate with the grid can make it much easier and safer to manage a grid that was designed for centralized power production and is being retrofitted for distributed generation, one roof at a time.

But when the imperatives of extraction and efficiency go to war, extraction always wins. After all, the Solaredge system is already in place and solar installers are largely ignorant of, and indifferent to, the reasons that a homeowner might want to directly control and monitor their system via local controls that don't roundtrip through the cloud.

Somewhere in the hindbrain of any prospective solar purchaser is the experience with bricked and enshittified "smart" gadgets, and the knowledge that anything they buy from a cool startup with lots of great ideas for improving production, monitoring, and/or costs poses the risk of having your 20 year investment bricked after just a few years – and, thanks to the extractive imperative, no one will be able to step in and restore your ex-solar array to good working order.

I make the majority of my living from books, which means that my pay is very "lumpy" – I get large sums when I publish a book and very little in between. For many years, I've used these payments to make big purchases, rather than financing them over long periods where I can't predict my income. We've used my book payments to put in solar, then an induction stove, then a battery. We used one to buy out the lease on our EV. And just a month ago, we used the money from my upcoming Enshittification book to put in a heat pump (with enough left over to pay for a pair of long-overdue cataract surgeries, scheduled for the fall).

When we started shopping for heat pumps, it was clear that this was a very exciting sector. First of all, heat pumps are kind of magic, so efficient and effective it's almost surreal. But beyond the basic tech – which has been around since the late 1940s – there is a vast ferment of cool digital features coming from exciting and innovative startups.

By nature, I'm the kid of person who likes these digital features. I started out as a computer programmer, and while I haven't written production code since the previous millennium, I've been in and around the tech industry for my whole adult life. But when it came time to buy a heat-pump – an investment that I expected to last for 20 years or more – there was no way I was going to buy one of these cool new digitally enhanced pumps, no matter how much the reviewers loved them. Sure, they'd work well, but it's precisely because I'm so knowledgeable about high tech that I could see that they would fail very, very badly.

You may think EVs are bullshit, and they are – though there will always be room for some personal vehicles, and it's better for people in transit deserts to drive EVs than gas-guzzlers. You may think rooftop solar is a dead-end and be all-in on utility scale solar (I think we need both, especially given the grid-disrupting extreme climate events on our horizon). But there's still a wide range of cleantech – induction tops, heat pumps, smart thermostats – that are capital intensive, have a long duty cycle, and have good reasons to be digitized and networked.

Take home storage batteries: your utility can push its rate card to your battery every time they change their prices, and your battery can use that information to decide when to let your house tap into the grid, and when to switch over to powering your home with the solar you've stored up during the day. This is a very old and proven pattern in tech: the old Fidonet BBS network used a version of this, with each BBS timing its calls to other nodes to coincide with the cheapest long-distance rates, so that messages for distant systems could be passed on:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FidoNet

Cleantech is a very dynamic sector, even if its triumphs are largely unheralded. There's a quiet revolution underway in generation, storage and transmission of renewable power, and a complimentary revolution in power-consumption in vehicles and homes:

https://pluralistic.net/2024/06/12/s-curve/#anything-that-cant-go-on-forever-eventually-stops

But cleantech is too important to leave to the incumbents, who are addicted to enshittification and planned obsolescence. These giant, financialized firms lack the discipline and culture to make products that have the features – and cost savings – to make them appealing to the very wide range of buyers who must transition as soon as possible, for the sake of the very planet.

It's not enough for our policymakers to focus on financing and infrastructure barriers to cleantech adoption. We also need a policy-level response to enshittification.

Ideally, every cleantech device would be designed so that it was impossible to enshittify – which would also make it impossible to brick:

Based on free software (best), or with source code escrowed with a trustee who must release the code if the company enters administration (distant second-best);

All patents in a royalty-free patent-pool (best); or in a trust that will release them into a royalty-free pool if the company enters administration (distant second-best);

No parts-pairing or other DRM permitted (best); or with parts-pairing utilities available to all parties on a reasonable and non-discriminatory basis (distant second-best);

All diagnostic and error codes in the public domain, with all codes in the clear within the device (best); or with decoding utilities available on demand to all comers on a reasonable and non-discriminatory basis (distant second-best).

There's an obvious business objection to this: it will reduce investment in innovative cleantech because investors will perceive these restrictions as limits on the expected profits of their portfolio companies. It's true: these measures are designed to prevent rent-extraction and other enshittificatory practices by cleantech companies, and to the extent that investors are counting on enshittification rents, this might prevent them from investing.

But that has to be balanced against the way that a general prohibition on enshittificatory practices will inspire consumer confidence in innovative and novel cleantech products, because buyers will know that their investments will be protected over the whole expected lifespan of the product, even if the startup goes bust (nearly every startup goes bust). These measures mean that a company with a cool product will have a much larger customer-base to sell to. Those additional sales more than offset the loss of expected revenue from cheating and screwing your customers by twiddling them to death.

There's also an obvious legal objection to this: creating these policies will require a huge amount of action from Congress and the executive branch, a whole whack of new rules and laws to make them happen, and each will attract court-challenges.

That's also true, though it shouldn't stop us from trying to get legal reforms. As a matter of public policy, it's terrible and fucked up that companies can enshittify the things we buy and leave us with no remedy.

However, we don't have to wait for legal reform to make this work. We can take a shortcut with procurement – the things governments buy with public money. The feds, the states and localities buy a lot of cleantech: for public facilities, for public housing, for public use. Prudent public policy dictates that governments should refuse to buy any tech unless it is designed to be enshittification-resistant.

This is an old and honorable tradition in policymaking. Lincoln insisted that the rifles he bought for the Union Army come with interoperable tooling and ammo, for obvious reasons. No one wants to be the Commander in Chief who shows up on the battlefield and says, "Sorry, boys, war's postponed, our sole supplier decided to stop making ammunition."

By creating a market for enshittification-proof cleantech, governments can ensure that the public always has the option of buying an EV that can't be bricked even if the maker goes bust, a heat-pump whose digital features can be replaced or maintained by a third party of your choosing, a solar controller that coordinates with the grid in ways that serve their owners – not the manufacturers' shareholders.

We're going to have to change a lot to survive the coming years. Sure, there's a lot of scary ways that things can go wrong, but there's plenty about our world that should change, and plenty of ways those changes could be for the better. It's not enough for policymakers to focus on ensuring that we can afford to buy whatever badly thought-through, extractive tech the biggest companies want to foist on us – we also need a focus on making cleantech fit for purpose, truly smart, reliable and resilient.

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#random #au idea #tsams why must you haunt me in this way #Okay basically a bloodmoon au where they get tired of depending on other folks to fix em up #So they just. become an engineer.#crash at a car shop for a bit and demand lessons #Take courses online through the daycare computers when no one’s operating it #possibly ‘threaten’ solar and eclipse into teaching them some stuff in p&s #Yknow that kinda thing #anyways #yea they also might learn some software stuff for the sake of tryna figure out how their code behaves #just realizing that this is the second au in which i give a tsams character a profession #Whoops

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Solar Panel Installation Guide – Step By Step Process | 2025

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gireportstory · 3 months ago

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Global Solar Photovoltaic Design Software Market Report Analysis 2025

On 2025-3-13 Global Info Research released【Global Solar Photovoltaic Design Software Market 2025 by Manufacturers, Regions, Type and Application, Forecast to 2031】. This report includes an overview of the development of the Solar Photovoltaic Design Software industry chain, the market status of Consumer Electronics (Nickel-Zinc Ferrite Core, Mn-Zn Ferrite Core), Household Appliances (Nickel-Zinc Ferrite Core, Mn-Zn Ferrite Core), and key enterprises in developed and developing market, and analysed the cutting-edge technology, patent, hot applications and market trends of Solar Photovoltaic Design Software. According to our (Global Info Research) latest study, the global Solar Photovoltaic Design Software market size was valued at US$ 201 million in 2024 and is forecast to a readjusted size of USD 2912 million by 2031 with a CAGR of 5.5% during review period. Solar photovoltaic design software is a comprehensive software developed specifically for solar photovoltaic system design. It integrates photovoltaic power station planning, design, simulation, analysis, optimization and report generation functions. It can provide users with all-round support from preliminary planning to detailed design, and help design more efficient, economical and reliable photovoltaic systems. This report is a detailed and comprehensive analysis for global Solar Photovoltaic Design Software market. Both quantitative and qualitative analyses are presented by company, by region & country, by Type and by Application. As the market is constantly changing, this report explores the competition, supply and demand trends, as well as key factors that contribute to its changing demands across many markets. Company profiles and product examples of selected competitors, along with market share estimates of some of the selected leaders for the year 2025, are provided.

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bigulalgotrading · 3 months ago

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terotam · 4 months ago

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How CMMS for Renewable Energy Supports Solar and Wind Farms?

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arka360 · 5 months ago

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Best Solar Data Software for Accurate Energy Analysis & Monitoring

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erpsolutionsforyou · 5 months ago

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How ERP Increases Solar Panel Benefits in Production

The demand for solar panels is rising as consumers and businesses increasingly opt for solar energy to reduce carbon footprints and lower energy costs. However, the solar panel industry faces significant challenges, from fluctuating solar panel prices to inefficiencies in solar inventory management and production. The implementation of an ERP system for solar panel manufacturers is crucial in addressing these challenges and optimizing the entire solar system production process. ERP technology not only streamlines operations but also enhances solar panel manufacturing efficiency, paving the way for a greener future.

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The solar panel manufacturing process is complex and involves multiple stages, from sourcing solar products to ensuring compliance with regulatory standards. Without a centralized system, manufacturers often face delays and production bottlenecks, particularly in managing solar inventory, solar panel tracking systems, and supply chain inefficiencies. By implementing ERP systems for solar panels, manufacturers gain real-time visibility into inventory levels, improving resource allocation and eliminating unnecessary costs associated with production inefficiencies.

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Meeting Quality and Regulatory Standards with ERP

The solar industry faces strict regulations to ensure that all solar panels and solar products meet environmental and quality standards. ERP solutions integrate compliance tracking features that ensure each solar pv module adheres to these standards, reducing the risk of penalties and boosting the reputation of manufacturers. Moreover, the built-in quality control features ensure that only the best photovoltaic panels are produced, meeting customer expectations for performance and durability.

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Leveraging Data for Smarter Decision-Making

One of the most valuable features of an ERP system is its ability to provide actionable data. Solar panel manufacturers can harness the power of solar panel tracking system to gain insights into production trends, demand forecasts, and efficiency rates. By integrating solar tracking and solar solar panels data, manufacturers can optimize their operations and improve decision-making regarding the purchase of materials, production schedules, and supply chain management.

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The solar panel industry is rapidly evolving, and new solar panel solar system technologies are transforming manufacturing processes. ERP systems are adapting by incorporating solar panel new technology, enabling manufacturers to track real-time data on the performance of solar system modules and solar panel solar system configurations. With the integration of IoT-enabled devices and AI-driven analytics, future ERP solutions will further enhance solar system solar panel monitoring and maintenance.

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astiinfotech1 · 5 months ago

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How Field Force Management Solutions Drive Success in the Solar Industry | Asti Infotech

The world is transitioning toward renewable energy unprecedentedly, with solar power leading the charge. The solar industry is pivotal in achieving global sustainability goals, accounting for nearly 60% of new global renewable energy capacity. However, this rapid expansion also brings unique challenges, particularly in managing a vast and dispersed field workforce. In this blog, we’ll explore the importance of field force management solutions in addressing these challenges and how they enable solar companies to streamline operations, enhance productivity, and achieve their growth objectives. Towards the conclusion, we’ll introduce IMPRINT, a field force management tool that has proven to be a game-changer in this space.

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virtosolar · 3 months ago

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Avoid Costly Mistakes in Solar PV Design with the Right Tool!

The shift toward renewable energy has made solar PV design a crucial aspect of planning and implementing solar power systems. Whether you are a homeowner, installer, or solar engineer, understanding how to design an efficient solar PV system is essential. However, many people struggle with the complexities of the process, including system sizing, shading analysis, and layout optimization.

Fortunately, modern solar design tools can simplify these tasks, making solar PV projects more efficient and error-free. In this microblog, we will explore the key challenges in solar PV design and how the right solar design tool can help overcome them.

What Are the Common Challenges in Solar PV Design?

Designing a solar PV system involves several steps, and many beginners encounter the following challenges:

1. Accurate System Sizing

Choosing the right solar panel capacity to match energy needs is tricky.

Oversizing increases costs, while undersizing leads to power shortages.

2. Site Analysis and Shading Issues

Assessing shading from trees, buildings, and other obstructions is critical.

Poor shading analysis can reduce energy production significantly.

3. Layout Optimization

Arranging solar panels efficiently for maximum sunlight exposure is challenging.

Roof and land constraints make manual layout planning complex.

4. Compliance with Regulations

Solar PV design must adhere to local grid codes and safety standards.

Keeping up with changing regulations is difficult for designers.

5. Time-Consuming Manual Calculations

Traditional methods involve complex spreadsheets and manual calculations.

This process is prone to errors and takes up valuable time.

How Can a Solar Design Tool Simplify the Process?

A solar design tool automates many of these challenges, making solar PV planning faster, easier, and more accurate. Here’s how:

1. Automated System Sizing

Advanced software calculates the ideal system size based on energy consumption and solar potential.

Prevents underperformance or excessive costs.

2. Advanced Shading Analysis

Uses 3D modeling and satellite imagery to detect shading problems.

Ensures optimal panel placement for maximum sunlight exposure.

3. Smart Layout Planning

AI-powered tools automatically suggest the best panel arrangement.

Takes roof angles, obstructions, and available space into account.

4. Compliance Checking

Built-in regulations help designers stay compliant with local codes.

Reduces risks of approval delays or legal issues.

5. Faster Design Process

Eliminates manual calculations and complex spreadsheets.

Saves hours of work and improves accuracy.

Which Solar Design Tool Should You Use?

There are several solar design tool available, but not all are user-friendly or accurate. A good tool should offer: 1. Easy-to-use interface — No need for advanced technical skills. 2. Accurate shading and energy yield analysis — Based on real-world data. 3. Integration with CAD and other design software — For seamless workflow. 4. Fast and automated design process — Reducing effort and increasing efficiency.

Tools like Virto Solar provide comprehensive features for solar PV design, helping users make data-driven decisions.

Final Thoughts

Designing a solar PV system can be complex, but with the right solar design tool, the process becomes much simpler. Whether you’re a professional installer or a homeowner exploring solar energy, leveraging digital tools ensures efficiency, accuracy, and better project outcomes.

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