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What is the Decentralized Grid? Let’s Agree on a Definition

The decentralized grid is an electric network of distributed energy resources that interact with each other or with the central grid to improve efficiency, lower costs, reduce emissions and provide greater local control of energy assets.

Elisa Wood
February 22, 2024
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How to Create a Consumer-First Energy Policy: An Interview with Congressman Sean Casten

In Energy Changemakers’ first video podcast, US Congressman Sean Casten describes a new bill he co-sponsored that addresses several problems facing decentralized energy

Elisa Wood
February 1, 2024
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How Regulation Creates Markets for Distributed Energy — And Why it Must

Regulators sometimes open up a piece of the utility monopoly’s business to competition from distributed energy providers.

Elisa Wood
January 16, 2024
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After We Ditch the Gas Pipes, What Then?

How non-pipeline alternatives create opportunities for distributed energy resources

Elisa Wood
January 8, 2024
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Maine Issues RFP in Next Step Toward Distribution System Operator (DSO)

If Maine goes forward with the DSO, it will be the first US state to do so.

Elisa Wood
January 1, 2024
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An Energy Wonk Comes Face-to-Face with the Real World. It isn’t Pretty

Well known energy analyst and writer, Peter Asmus, faced red tape and confusion when he tried to install solar plus storage on his home. If it was hard for him, what’s it like for the rest of the world?

Peter Asmus
December 13, 2023
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Is There an Easier Way to Create Public Power Utilities?

Does public power’s defeat in Maine mean it’s a fool’s errand? Or is there another way to create community-owned utilities? Take a look at what’s happening in California with targeted public power.

Elisa Wood
December 7, 2023
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What if We Decarbonized the Grid from the Bottom Up?

A coalition of clean energy groups argue that adding solar to rooftops would move California more quickly to 100% renewables than building large land-based projects.

Elisa Wood
November 19, 2023
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Will Maine Show the Rest of the US How to Open the Door to Distributed Energy?

Distributed energy supporters have floated the DSO concept for years, but no state has yet to brave its complexity. Enter Maine.

Elisa Wood
November 14, 2023
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Five Big Ideas Out of Dervos 2023

Dervos 2023 stimulated some of the most thought-provoking discussion about distributed energy I’ve heard at a conference. Here are a few (of many) big ideas floated at the event hosted by the DER Task Force last week in Brooklyn, NY.

Elisa Wood
November 14, 2023
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