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Hawaii Will Power Its Clean Grid with 6,000 Home Batteries Installed by Swell Energy

GreenTechMedia

Hawaii's largest utility enlisted a new tool in its quest for a carbon-free electricity system: thousands of batteries installed in people's homes. Hawaiian Electric won regulator approval for a $25 million plan to harness solar and batteries at 6,000 homes across the islands of Hawaii, Maui and Oahu.

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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. Utility Duke Energy tossed out the conventional playbook when proposing a net-metering successor for its South Carolina territory.

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How New Building Rules Can Revitalize Residential Solar in England

GreenTechMedia

Tighter rules on the carbon footprint of new homes in England look set to trigger a fresh boom for residential solar. New homes will be expected to produce 31 percent less carbon dioxide than they do now, according to plans laid out this week , which will require better energy efficiency and being “heat pump ready.”

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Sunrun to Turn Home Batteries Into Grid Resources for 2 Major Utilities

GreenTechMedia

rooftop solar installer, finalized two utility partnerships to turn home batteries into miniature power plants. Sunrun is also assembling a 300-home fleet for New York state utility Orange & Rockland, a subsidiary of Con Edison, it announced Wednesday. Sunrun, the leading U.S.

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Michigan Utility DTE Ordered to Seek Out More Renewables

GreenTechMedia

Michigan's two big investor-owned utilities, Consumers Energy and DTE Energy, have both committed to meeting state-mandated clean energy targets and retiring coal plants by 2040. The order gives the Detroit-area utility until March 21 to resubmit its IRP, and until April 1 to submit an amended renewable energy plan.

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5 States Blazing the Trail for Integrating Distributed Energy Resources

GreenTechMedia

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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Rooftop solar skyrockets if an alternative to monopoly utility models is employed

Renewable Energy World

Since rooftop solar became possible, electric utilities have struggled to incorporate it into their outdated business model. In recent years, this lag in utility recognition has become increasingly problematic, risking the health, environmental, and financial impacts of over-investment in large fossil fuel power plants.