Described in a recent report as the "undisputed king" of the energy storage industry, California continues to blaze new trails, now with legislation to boost customer-sited energy storage. The California Senate recently passed SB 700, which creates incentives for customer-sited energy storage in homes, schools, farms and businesses. Next, … [Read more...]
Citing the benefits of energy storage for reducing greenhouse gas emissions, providing grid support and promoting market transformation, California regulators have doubled incentives for the Self-Generation Incentive Program, giving the lion’s share to energy storage funding. The state’s investor-owned utilities in 2017, 2018 and 2019 must … [Read more...]
More than half of the labs that responded to a survey from the Smart Grid Interoperability Panel are testing solar, inverters, energy storage or some combination of the three, and half are doing so in a microgrid configuration, according to SGIP. SGIP surveyed 35 utilities, national laboratories, universities and technology solution providers … [Read more...]
Anthony Colonesse, vice president of Ameresco’s Energy Security Group, describes the evolution of Ameresco’s microgrid business strategy — from energy efficiency to today’s battery storage advances.
Today, a range of technologies is making the implementation of microgrids more attractive across a wide variety of applications. From the falling costs of solar power generation and energy storage to advances in control systems, the business case for microgrids is improving by the day.
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