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Can Big Data Help Us Get to a Carbon-Free Future?
This speeding avalanche of data—and all the information in it—can lead to great opportunities, especially in the areas we work in at RMI—electricity, buildings, and transportation.
New York and California are Building the Grid of the Future
New York and California are leading the charge on how to integrate significantly higher amounts of distributed energy resources onto a grid historically built around centralized assets like large power plants.
Bringing Shared Solar to Scale
For solar PV broadly to continue to scale, shared solar specifically has to become more valuable for utilities, solar companies, and customers.
Keeping Up with the Joneses
Let’s take a hypothetical look into the future at the Jones family, at a time when utilities offer more sophisticated pricing structures and third-party service providers offer solutions that will keep both customers and the utility happy.
The Distributed Energy Storage Industry In One Chart
Thanks to these projections and no shortage of media coverage, an outsider could be led to believe that distributed storage is capable of solving many of our electricity system ills. However, we’re not quite there yet.