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eLab Accelerator Part 1: Kickstarting Community Energy
This week, RMI kicks off eLab Accelerator, our bootcamp for electricity innovation. More than 100 participants from across the country are rolling up their sleeves to make rapid and targeted progress on the trickiest issues they’re facing.

eLab Accelerator
eLab is using cutting-edge approaches to bring together incumbents and insurgents to look at the forces at play in the electricity industry.

Cargo Pants, Duct Tape, and…Microgrids?
The promise of microgrid technology has caught the eye of large customers that require high levels of reliability. But no one customer has committed to explore the microgrid solution more than the U.S. military.

Learning from the Cell Phone Phenomenon
In many regions of the world there may be no other option for people to get access to electricity than through renewable-powered microgrids.

Retail Electricity Prices: It’s Time to Unbundle the Package
With the growth of the distributed solar PV market, there’s been quite a lot of attention paid to the fate of electric utilities recently.