GreenTechMedia
AUGUST 19, 2020
After a massive heat wave in California that led grid operator CAISO to order its first rolling blackouts since the 2001 energy crisis on Friday and Saturday, the state has thus far managed to avoid further forced outages. Several out-of-state power grids also reported emergency conditions on Monday and Tuesday.
GreenTechMedia
OCTOBER 7, 2020
California’s two days of rolling blackouts in August were the result of disconnects between its existing grid reliability constructs and the needs of an increasingly solar-powered grid, and its failure to prepare for a Western U.S.-wide wide heatwave that undermined its reliance on out-of-state resources.
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GreenTechMedia
SEPTEMBER 22, 2020
California’s distributed energy resources add up to gigawatts' worth of capacity that could be used to prevent future rolling blackouts and balance the state’s increasingly clean-powered grid — if the state can compensate them for those services.
Women in Cleantech and Sustainability
FEBRUARY 20, 2014
In this vision, GRID Alternatives , a non-profit solar installer, was formed in 2004. Looking at real-world economic challenges to solar power, GRID Alternatives takes a broader approach to solar that has helped set the stage for large-scale solar adoption worldwide.
GreenTechMedia
APRIL 20, 2020
” In other words, NERA is asking FERC to assert control over all state net metering programs, which pay customers for the energy they don't consume on-site, but feed back to the power grid. FERC has addressed net energy metering before in decisions in 2001 and in 2009, Peskoe said.
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