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California Shifts $100M in Behind-the-Meter Battery Incentives to Low-Income Communities

GreenTechMedia

billion Self-Generation Incentive Program budget to help low-income communities install about 100 megawatts of stalled behind-the-meter battery projects. The shift won’t tap the $613 million in SGIP funds earmarked for low-income and medically vulnerable customers at highest risk of fire-prevention power outages. California Sen.

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AEP OnSite Partners signs LOI to develop solar field to power cryptocurrency mining

Renewable Energy World

Sangha Systems, developers of an 82-MW cryptocurrency mining facility at a former steel mill in Hennepin, Illinois announced that it has signed a letter of intent (LOI) with AEP OnSite Partners to develop a 2 – 5-MW behind-the-meter solar power array to begin to migrate its electricity consumption towards clean energy.

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CalCom Energy’s $100M Fund Targets Farms for Solar-Battery Systems

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In California, it’s not just vulnerable families and critical services that could use battery-backed solar systems to ride through wildfire-prevention power outages. CalCom Energy, a long-time solar and energy services provider for California’s agricultural sector, thinks it has a solution.

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Ensuring equity in Washington’s 100% clean electricity law implementation

Front And Centered

Washington passed 100% clean electricity into law earlier this year, and with public input government agencies are currently drafting rules to guide utilities on how to comply with the law by phasing out fossil fuel emissions and integrating equity in their service models. 100% Clean Energy by 2045 is now the law in Washington!

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China’s new frontier for VOC regulations

GreenBiz

In March 2020, for example, China’s State Council announced four national requirements for VOC content in adhesives, coatings, inks and cleaning agents widely used in the electronics and electrical industry; the stringency and implementation of these mandates may have a significant impact on production and business risk moving forward.

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ComEd’s Favorable Regulatory Treatment for Grid Investments Comes Under Fire

GreenTechMedia

For the past nine years, Chicago-based utility ComEd has earned excessive profits from a regulatory structure set in place by a 2011 state law whose passage has been linked to a bribery scandal that’s embroiled key state lawmakers and ComEd’s former CEO. The workings of the 2011 Energy Infrastructure Modernization Act.

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St. Louis Adopts Midwest?s First Building Performance Standard

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Louis Mayor Lyda Krewson recently signed a law establishing a mandatory Building Energy Performance Standard in the city, which is the second-largest in Missouri. The standard will be set to ensure that 65 percent of the buildings in each property type will have to save energy to comply with the law. In 2018 St.