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Energy Storage Is the New Efficiency
When Massachusetts took the nation-leading step of integrating energy storage into its energy efficiency plan this year, it didn’t just add a new technology. It consummated a decade-long, slow-motion embrace of an important new form of efficiency.
Read MoreHealth Care at Home: The New Risks from a Growing Trend
As more people opt to receive medical care at home, access to resilient emergency backup power will need to be prioritized and made more accessible, especially to low-income households.
Read MoreMassachusetts becomes first in the nation to make battery storage eligible for energy efficiency incentives
Energy storage has been the coming thing for years. Now, it’s arrived – as an efficiency measure.
Read MoreBattery Storage Could Revolutionize Home Health Care: Lessons Learned from Puerto Rico
A new research project in Puerto Rico demonstrates that the home health care industry is potentially a new market for solar and battery storage.
Read MoreHistoric, Record-breaking Offshore Wind Lease Auction
Equinor Wind, Mayflower Wind, and Vineyard Wind are the three provisional winners of last Friday’s BOEM competitive wind energy area lease auction.
Read MoreBatteries Replacing Gas in California, Coal in Colorado and Indiana
How storage will power a low carbon energy transformation has begun to emerge across the country – surprisingly led by utilities in the Midwest and West as they pursue an economic mix of renewables and battery storage to shut down and replace existing fossil-fuel plants.
Read MoreThe Right to Energy Data – An Emerging Environmental Justice Issue
Free access to energy data should be a basic right in today’s changing regulatory environment.
Read MoreMaryland’s New Resiliency Program Could Serve as a Model for Other States
There’s a lot to like about the Maryland Energy Administration’s new $5 million program to support community resiliency hubs powered by solar and battery storage.
Read MoreAs Hurricane Michael damages the Southeast, Puerto Rico provides lessons on resilient power
In its extraordinary drive to rebound from a historic storm, Puerto Rico’s policymakers have staked a new resilient future that their mainland colleagues would do well to follow.
Read MoreSolar+Storage Powers Critical Community Services in Boulder, Colorado
For the City of Boulder, a September 2013 flood emphasized the need for energy resilience as critical to providing emergency services. The city partnered with two leading nonprofit services providers to demonstrate how solar+storage systems can reliably support critical loads during an outage.
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