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Declining Battery Storage Costs Raise Questions About the Role of Natural Gas
Batteries are beginning to complete head-to-head with natural gas peaker plants, and they’re starting to win.
Read MoreHow Could Solar+Storage Benefit Your Community? Find Out for Free.
A new release of NREL’s free online tool allows anyone to enter in a building’s information to estimate how much solar+storage capacity would be needed to keep critical loads powered during an emergency.
Read MoreOptions for “Getting to Shore” Discussed at First U.S. Offshore Transmission Conference
The opportunities and challenges of developing a cost effective, technically feasible, environmentally responsible offshore transmission network and interconnecting the offshore cables were the topics of the day at the first Offshore Wind Transmission, USA conference last week.
Read MoreRegional Cooperation Stressed at the New York Intergovernmental Renewable Energy Task Force Meeting
On May 9th, BOEM held its Task Force Meeting for the New York Bight to present an overview of its Call for Information and Nominations, provide updates on recent developments, and seek public input.
Read MoreWhy California’s New Home Solar Requirement Includes Batteries and Not Zero Net Energy
California’s recently adopted building standards require solar to be a part of all new residential construction. As the first state to enact such a standard, it’s been lauded as a historic and game-changing event for solar power in the U.S. But some have argued that the new standards don’t go far enough.
Read MoreBattery Storage: After 100 Years, The Market Finally Arrives
After a hundred years of technology improvement, an old enabling technology — battery storage — has emerged anew.
Read MoreRecharging the Clean Energy Transition with Battery Storage
It’s rare to have an opportunity to shape an energy technology market as it emerges. Today, battery storage is that energy technology.
Read MoreFERC 841 Opens Markets to Energy Storage
Last month’s FERC order 841 was hailed by some as a watershed moment in energy storage history, but the devil’s in the implementation.
Read MoreCalifornia Utilities Propose Storage for Energy Resilience and Equity, But More Needs to be Done
Three of California’s largest utilities recently proposed more than 100 megawatts of utility-owned energy storage to support resiliency in critical public facilities and $6 million in incentives for customer-owned storage at multifamily affordable housing properties.
Read MoreFederal Energy Funds for Puerto Rico, A Small Down Payment
Just this past week, Puerto Rico suffered another setback in its effort to restore power to the island. One of its 400 megawatt power plants caught fire, plunging people back into the darkness.
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