Ithaca, NY approved a plan to decarbonize independently from the grid using DERs, energy sharing, and dividend-paying ownership shares to community members.
New Jersey utilities must show how they will support DERs within 30 days to help meet “unprecedented” load growth from data centers.
Microgrid and DER developers remain bullish about their market and see projects growing in complexity.
In a recent UC Berkeley paper, Keith Taylor proposes a form of local energy ownership beyond individual household solar.
Energy planning has emerged as a high-stakes discipline for data centers. Mistakes aren’t just expensive; they can delay or even derail data center projects.
The energy abundance agenda carries appeal. But achieving it on the complex electric grid will take more than just building more stuff.
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Permit Power’s Nick Josefowitz explains how to reduce solar soft costs by tackling the red tape discouraging American households from installing rooftop solar.
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A new FERC proceeding reveals distributed energy’s growing role easing pressure on an oversubscribed transmission system.