Month: July 2015
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.
What role should utilities play in ownership of energy storage resources?
States have been using group purchasing and special marketing initiatives to bring down the cost of solar. A wide range of campaigns, each called Solarize, have been launched with leadership from state agencies in Oregon, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and other states.
Whether we like it or not, the power system remains a black box to most people.
The path to scaling up clean energy technologies like solar+storage sometimes can seem like unchartered territory.
Forget energy storage as the technology of the future, for many utility customers the time for storage is already here.
Solar power plus storage is a technology marriage that can work and is working already.