The Sierra Club is urging New Jersey regulators to include microgrids as part of the state’s strategy for supporting energy efficiency and peak demand reduction. The environmental group and others are also pushing the state to use energy storage to improve energy efficiency and peak demand cuts, according to comments filed with the New … [Read more...]
Microgrid Installed for Low-income Apartments, First for Washington DC
January 28, 2020 By
In a first for Washington DC, a microgrid that combines solar and energy storage has been installed in an affordable housing complex. The Maycroft Apartment's $327,000 resiliency center includes a 70.2-kW rooftop solar array combined with a 46-kW/56 kWh battery system that can disconnect from the grid and provide power for up to three days … [Read more...]
How Massachusetts Compensates Battery Storage Owners for Energy Efficiency: Report
April 4, 2019 By
When most people think of energy efficiency, they think of using fewer electrons. But the Clean Energy Group has an expanded definition — to shift energy usage from high peaks to low demand times. And it says that battery storage is the important new technology to allow this. The Clean Energy Group, supported by the Barr Foundation and the … [Read more...]
Using Energy Storage to Improve Public Health in Disadvantaged Communities
August 24, 2016 By
Here's another twist on why energy storage is a good thing. It can help clean the air and improve public health. Seth Mullendore of Clean Energy Group explains. Energy storage deployment has been ramping up at a rapid pace across the country, mainly because it can reduce electric bills and cut utility expenses. It is now time to consider another … [Read more...]
California: Out of Controversy Comes a Role Model for Energy Storage?
June 15, 2016 By
The Clean Energy Group's Seth Mullendore describes problems that have plagued California's Self-Generation Incentive Program (SGIP) and reforms that may make it a role model for energy storage incentives. The California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) recently proposed a few changes to California’s Self-Generation Incentive Program (SGIP) … [Read more...]
How to Bend the Technology Arc to Bring Resilient Energy to those Most in Need
September 2, 2015 By
Today’s drive to develop resilient energy is good for the world. But how quickly will microgrid-like technology arrive for those most in need? That’s a question that’s worried Lew Milford, president and founder of the Clean Energy Group (CEG), an organization for years at the forefront of innovations in renewable energy funding. Milford … [Read more...]
How about Microgrid Financing through Warehouse Credit?
January 31, 2015 By
Solar took off once the industry started to use power purchase agreements and leasing. What's the equivalent for microgrid financing? ‘Warehouse credit’ might be the answer for microgrids, energy storage and other resiliency projects, according to a new report by the Clean Energy Group, “Ramp Up Resilient Power Finance.” Widely used in … [Read more...]
Connecticut DEEP Contemplates Microgrid Program Revisions
December 26, 2014 By
Connecticut officials are considering changes to the state's microgrid program, a first-of-its-kind grant offering. Clean Energy Group's Todd Olinsky-Paul explains the proposed legislative and regulatory action. The hallmark of good programs is that they keep getting better. Last month, Clean Energy States Alliance awarded a State Leadership in … [Read more...]
Green Mountain Power Builds Microgrid to Revitalize City
August 13, 2014 By
Green Mountain Power has begun building what is believed to be the US’ first solar microgrid in a brownfield landfill, part of project to revitalize Rutland City. The Vermont utility is installing 7,700 solar panels that can generate 2 MW, backed up by a 4-MW battery storage system. Called Stafford Hill Solar Farm, the $10 million microgrid … [Read more...]
