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The Finance Industry on DERs: Solar and Batteries are Coming
If you want to see where the grid is heading, follow the money. And by that measure, the banks have spoken loudly.
Report Release: The Economics of Load Defection
The Economics of Load Defection is a new report that analyzes how grid-connected solar-plus-battery systems will become cost competitive with traditional retail electric service and why it matters to financiers, regulators, utilities, and other electricity system stakeholders.
Kaiser Permanente buys 153 MW of wind and solar power
Authored by Iain Kelly Kaiser Permanente’s recent announcement that it would purchase enough renewable energy to meet half of its electricity consumption in California…
How to Deploy Solar as a Grid Resource
There’s an opportunity to use distributed PV to better utilize the existing electricity system, which not only makes that PV more valuable to the individual customers who install it but also by reducing the cost to operate the grid, thus benefiting all customers.
Second Annual eLab Accelerator Kicks Off This Week
This week, RMI's Electricity Innovation Lab (eLab) convenes the second annual eLab Accelerator. This intensive workshop brings together a dozen outstanding project teams making change at the grid’s distribution edge.
