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Resilience for Free: Protecting Vulnerable Communities
Clean Energy Group, through its Resilient Power Project, has released a new report analyzing the economics of resilient solar PV and battery storage (solar+storage) systems for multifamily affordable housing.
Read MoreNew Mexico Attracts Jobs and Revenues with Renewable Energy Tax Credit
Over the past decade, New Mexico leaders have positioned the state as a major growth area for renewable energy by developing effective policies and programs, along with financial and other incentives, including a state-level renewable energy production tax credit.
Read MoreBuilding a Regional Roadmap for Offshore Wind: Northeast States Receive DOE Award
The Department of Energy has awarded around a half-million dollars to New York, Maine, Rhode Island and Massachusetts state organizations to cooperate on scaling up the offshore wind industry in the region. CESA will help coordinate the interstate project.
Read MoreDistributed Resilient Storage for Utility Capacity Shaving: A Use Case
Earlier this month, I had the pleasure of attending the commissioning of a solar+storage powered microgrid in Rutland, Vermont.
Read MoreShedding Some Light on a Taxing Situation for Community-Shared Solar
As community-shared solar has proliferated, a growing number of states have adopted community solar-enabling laws. This is clearly good news for solar, but one issue that has been less clear is whether an individual owner of solar panels installed in an offsite, community- shared array qualifies for one of the primary carrots offered to homeowners adopting solar—the 30% federal residential investment tax credit called the “residential ITC.”
Read MoreThe Tides Are Turning for Offshore Wind in the US
Offshore wind excitement is growing in the Northeast with the recent arrival of foundations for Deepwater Wind’s Block Island offshore wind farm.
Read MoreUtilities Seek to Integrate Distributed Storage
For the past year or two, there have been many stories in the press about how utilities view distributed generation and storage as a threat, rather than an opportunity. Now, there is evidence that this is starting to change.
Read MoreEnergy Storage and the Clean Power Plan
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) released the final version of its monumental Clean Power Plan last week – all 1,560 pages of it.
Read MoreEnergy Storage, Electricity Markets, and Economics
A lot of people are talking about energy storage these days, which is hardly surprising considering energy storage has often been idealized of as a kind of Holy Grail for the energy industry.
Read MoreOffshore Wind: At Long Last
After an embarrassingly long time, it seems the US has finally stopped dithering at the starting line and entered a race that Europe and China have been running for years.
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