 | It’s Time for a More Resilient Florida September 30, 2019 by Marriele Mango, Zelalem Adefris Despite not sustaining a direct hit, Hurricane Dorian still left parts of Florida flooded and over 170,000 people without power. In the past, a single extreme weather event has left hundreds of thousands of people in Florida without power, in some cases for more than a week. |
 | California Aims to Fix Low-Income Storage Program and Deliver New Resilience Incentives September 4, 2019 by Seth Mullendore California’s energy storage incentive program has been a great success, with more than 11,000 battery storage systems installed to-date. The problem is, it’s not reaching the state’s most vulnerable communities. |
 | Housing Department Decision Will Bring Solar Benefits to Low-Income Households in California August 16, 2019 by Seth Mullendore A memorandum issued by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development fixes a long-standing issue preventing hundreds of thousands of low-income households from realizing the financial benefits of solar. |
 Jason A G / Flickr / Creative Commons | Energy Freedom Act: South Carolina Takes Steps Towards Resilience July 30, 2019 by Marriele Robinson Hurricane season is here, and South Carolina is no stranger to the devastating impacts that natural disasters and extreme weather can have on communities. |
 Dennis Schroeder/NREL | Small Solar and Battery Storage Systems are Toppling Power Plants June 24, 2019 by Seth Mullendore From Florida to Nevada to California, big battery projects have been making headlines lately. But a more groundbreaking movement has received far less media attention – hundreds, in some cases thousands, of small distributed solar and battery systems working together to tackle power plant-sized problems. |
 Photo Credit: Portland General Electric | FERC Upholds Order Opening Markets to Energy Storage May 17, 2019 by Todd Olinsky-Paul FERC voted this week to uphold its landmark Order 841, which states that the nation’s electric grid operators (RTOs and ISOs) must allow energy storage resources fair and equal access to provide services in regional wholesale energy markets. |
 | Energy Storage Is the New Efficiency April 18, 2019 by Todd Olinsky-Paul 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. |
 | Health Care at Home: The New Risks from a Growing Trend March 25, 2019 by Marriele Robinson 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. |
 | Massachusetts becomes first in the nation to make battery storage eligible for energy efficiency incentives February 1, 2019 by Todd Olinsky-Paul Energy storage has been the coming thing for years. Now, it’s arrived – as an efficiency measure. |
 | Battery Storage Could Revolutionize Home Health Care: Lessons Learned from Puerto Rico January 30, 2019 by Lewis Milford A new research project in Puerto Rico demonstrates that the home health care industry is potentially a new market for solar and battery storage. |
