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

GreenTechMedia

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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These Are the Benefits of Going Solar at Home

The Environmental Blog

This includes reducing your monthly energy costs. This article takes a look at the incredible benefits of going solar. Keep reading to discover insight into the reason you should make the shift to solar panels for your home so that you can save money while helping to save the planet. Reduce Energy Costs.

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Can Solar and Batteries Outlast an Extended Power Outage?

GreenTechMedia

Even by the standards of the generally well-informed clean energy customers in California's Bay Area, Todd Karin is a savvy one. Karin works as a postdoctoral researcher in the energy storage and distributed resources division at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. Not quite full resilience.

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California Won’t Touch Wildfire Budgets in Behind-the-Meter Battery Incentive Shift

GreenTechMedia

California regulators plan to address pleas from stakeholders in the energy storage industry to free up money for the state’s behind-the-meter battery incentive program, directing an additional $108.5 billion available through 2024 to cover part of the costs of installing batteries at homes and businesses.

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Transforming Customer Segmentation with the Power of AI

Bidgely

Learn more about how you can integrate Bidgely’s AI-powered customer profiling and segmentation capability into your operations to generate greater ROI from your AMI investment by downloading our Data Science Lab’s AI-Powered Customer Segmentation for Utilities white paper. Transforming Customer Segmentation with the Power of AI.

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Distributed solar+storage should qualify for Minnesota utility energy efficiency programs

Renewable Energy World

Due to interconnection delays, Minnesota utilities plan to replace their fossil fuel generators with utility-scale solar in Integrated Resource Plans. But that diminishes distributed scale solar prospects. An example of a generator replacement is replacing a retiring coal unit with solar.

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Western Heat Wave Tests California’s Clean Grid Transition

GreenTechMedia

this weekend will push California’s grid to the limits, as the state charts a course to eliminating fossil fuel power. To prepare, grid operator CAISO issued a Flex Alert , asking customers to reduce electricity consumption during the late afternoon and evening Friday as the grid copes with “near-record or record-breaking heat.”