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Duke Energy’s SC Net-Metering Replacement Won a Crucial Ally: Rooftop Solar Companies

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Few grid policy battles have been fought as bitterly as those surrounding replacements for net-metering, which determines how much rooftop solar customers get paid for power they export to the grid. It got the rooftop solar industry on board. Beyond solar.

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California’s Interconnection Rules Open Doors to Flexible Solar-Storage, Vehicle-to-Grid Charging

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California has more distributed energy resources than any other state, pressuring it to find ways to integrate them into the grid. That’s the big change enabled by a Rule 21 revision entitled “conditions that allow distributed energy resources to perform while avoiding upgrades.”

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The Texas Polar Vortex Resurrects the Question of Fuel Diversity for the Decarbonized Grid

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The record gas demand would have been even higher without the rolling blackouts, because more homes with central heat would have run either gas-fired heaters or electric heat pumps, which would have been powered mostly by coal or gas-fired generators if those weren't on outage. decarbonization targets and policies.

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5 States Blazing the Trail for Integrating Distributed Energy Resources

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Distributed energy resources (DERs) is an expansive term, including everything from backup generators to microgrids. In some states with 100 percent clean energy mandates, like California and Hawaii, the focus is on solar — lots and lots of it — and the tools needed to integrate this massive new grid edge resource.

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California’s Plan to Crowdsource Distributed Energy to Replace Grid Upgrades

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California regulators are on the cusp of breaking open a long-awaited opportunity to enlist rooftop solar, behind-the-meter batteries and other distributed energy resources (DERs) to substitute for expensive grid upgrades. The leading U.S. California’s investor-owned utilities have argued against this approach.

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Grid Edge M&A Alert: Sentient Acquires Varentec for Dynamic Grid Control

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After a decade of eking out a niche in the world of advanced distribution grid power controls, Silicon Valley startup Varentec has sold its key assets for an undisclosed sum. energy industry, with Koch Engineered Solutions (KES) serving as its engineering and project services arm. ” Consolidating the realm of grid edge controls.

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A decidedly impartial review of Mark Jacobson’s 100% Clean, Renewable Energy and Storage for Everything

Renewable Energy World

When you’ve followed the evolving research of a leading clean energy expert and become a supporter of his vision for a global clean energy transition, it should come as no surprise that I was eager to crack open Mark Jacobson’s 2021 book release, 100% Clean, Renewable Energy and Storage for Everything.