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Why Owning Your Own Power Plant Might Not Be Crazy
It’s not that far-fetched to imagine a day when large segments of customers choose to go mostly or even entirely off-grid with clean, quiet, distributed solar-plus-battery systems.

A Clean Energy Future for Lafayette, Colorado
The eLab Accelerator process has been instrumental in focusing discussion among key players in Lafayette, enhancing our chances of achieving substantial progress on clean energy and action on climate change, and perhaps most importantly, raising the bar on our clean energy goals.

Boulder’s Bold Ambition
After passing the nation’s first carbon tax in 2006 and ballot measures in 2011 and 2013 asking the city to explore options for clean, reliable, low-cost, local energy, the City of Boulder, Colorado, is in the process of creating the "utility of the future" with help from eLab Accelerator.

From Grid Defected to Grid Connected
RMI's Virginia Lacy talks with Sunverge vice president of products Steve Wolford about how grid-connected solar-plus-battery systems are already helping the grid’s ongoing transition to the electricity system of the future.

Full Speed Ahead for Spokane’s University District Smart City Accelerator
The Spokane University District can be viewed as a smart city laboratory, a place to implement and evaluate the best smart city strategies of today and the most promising next-generation smart city strategies for tomorrow.