This webinar explored innovative solar+storage applications in vulnerable communities, including a mobile emergency response trailer and microgrid for medically vulnerable households, both on the island of Vieques. Panelists discussed barriers to resilient power development and local workforce training initiatives.
As we evaluate and re-evaluate the undoubtedly substantial and lasting impacts COVID-19 will have on our work and the work of our partners across the country moving forward, it is more evident than ever that resilient power is a critical component to improving health outcomes in the event of a crisis like the world is currently experiencing.
Since Hurricane Maria destroyed Puerto Rico’s energy infrastructure in 2017, the small island of Vieques has had an especially difficult time maintaining a reliable power supply. The island’s only source of electricity is a single under-water cable line that was heavily damaged during Maria. Although power has been restored, the grid is still very vulnerable…
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CEG Filing in Vermont PUC docket on adding energy storage to state energy efficiency plan
CEG filed comments to the Vermont Public Utility Commission in a docket considering, among other things, the question of whether the state’s energy efficiency program should include behind-the-meter energy storage as an efficiency measure.