How the Energy Changemakers Community Advances Your Work Transforming the Electric Grid
Energy Changemakers is a private, online community for those who support local, clean distributed energy. A place to gather, help each other, find opportunities, learn what’s new, and advance your ideas and projects. We amplify the work of our members through our magazine, Decentralized Grid, an online publication designed to generate discussion about the growing move toward energy democracy.
Decentralized Grid Magazine
Community Solar Economics: How money is made, saved, and even sometimes lost
Rob Hong of Sapling Financial Consultants explains community solar economics on the Energy Changemakers Podcast with Elisa Wood.
What if Consumers were the Changemakers Demanding a Decentralized Grid?
A Boston Consulting Group report explains how a demand-centric energy strategy would boost growth of distributed energy resources.
Transforming Ideas into Policy: VPPs
EPDI’s Ted Ko explains how to translate ideas raised about virtual power plants in an Energy Changemakers’ podcast into actionable government policy.
Are We Expecting Too Much from Virtual Power Plants?
Many see virtual power plants (VPPs) as the best way to organize distributed energy. Here’s a contrarian view.
Community Solar Needs a Bigger Boat
Only a limited number of states have pro-community solar policies. That has to change for community solar to continue to thrive in the US.
Making Rural America into a Climate Migration Mecca with the Help of Distributed Energy
Two academics are pressing rural inland communities to seize the opportunity to recast themselves as attractive places for climate migrants to relocate. Distributed energy plays a key role in their reinvention.