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Public safety power shutoffs and equity resiliency incentives – a perfect storm for home battery demand

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By Kevin Mulvey, Manager of Product & Technology, Energy Toolbase The behind-the-meter energy storage market posted another year of record growth in 2019, according to Wood Mackenzie’s latest U.S. Energy Storage Monitor report.

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

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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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Sunrun Taps AutoGrid to Optimize Grid Services for its Growing Fleets of Home Batteries

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Sunrun is landing contract after contract to put solar-charged residential batteries to work serving grid needs. On Thursday, it picked Silicon Valley energy management software startup AutoGrid to help it optimize this growing fleet. A growing market for optimizing distributed energy.

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A Vibrant Cleantech Startup Ecosystem Takes Root in India

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Several floors below the firm’s balcony, power lines crisscross over piles of garbage, a fleet of rickshaws and cow patties on a rooftop, being dried for cooking fuel. “I don’t think you can just deploy solar and solve everything,” he said. Demand for flexible, clean power spurs startup activity.

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Natural Gas Microgrids Do What Solar and Batteries Alone Can?t for California Resiliency, Report Says

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Earlier this year, Pacific Gas & Electric faced pushback from environmental and solar and energy storage industry groups to a plan to deploy natural gas generators to back up communities facing multi-day fire-prevention blackouts. Natural gas vs. diesel vs. solar-storage.

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How to advance equity in energy solutions in the COVID-19 era

GreenBiz

How to advance equity in energy solutions in the COVID-19 era. During the day I work in the energy sector supporting government and utilities design programs to perform outreach to and educate low-income and diverse communities. Daphany Rose Sanchez. Mon, 07/06/2020 - 02:01. More than 122,000 U.S. But this isn't new.

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Massachusetts’ Clean Peak Standard Is Ready to Go

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Charlie Baker’s administration has finalized a major rule for promoting clean energy during the most expensive hours of electricity production. The Clean Peak Standard, called for in legislation passed in 2018, creates credits for clean energy delivered during time windows identified as peak hours for a given season.