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SMUD’s electrification rebate packages are worth up to $5,000 for new homes and up to $13,750 for gas-to-electric conversions in existing homes. SMUD as a testing ground SMUD, which serves more ...
A new report takes aim at regressive volumetric rates and proposes a new way to share the costs of the state’s clean electrification goals.
Transmission developers have long said that if only a few big renewable-linked projects could get built, the path would open to others once the benefits were made manifest. That theory was largely ...
Back in December, Advanced Energy Economy published a list of the top 10 public utility commission actions of 2016. With 2017 halfway done, we wanted check in on the top public utility commission ...
The Trump administration’s solar tariff saga continues.After months of legal back-and-forth, a ruling in the U.S. Court of International Trade has reinstated tariffs on two-sided solar panels ...
Spillover into other markets At the same time, growth in German offshore wind installations is creating problems for Germany’s neighbors. TenneT, the transmission system operator that serves the ...
California’s heat-wave-driven rolling blackouts last month, and the threat of more to come, have focused state political leaders and energy regulators on how to fix the California Public ...
“Inverters are constantly going down and going offline,” said Corbitt. “Somebody has to be there on the site to troubleshoot.” Origis prefers including corrective maintenance in the ...
The European Union wants to build 40 gigawatts of green hydrogen electrolyzers by 2030 and estimates that 80 to 120 gigawatts of solar and wind will be needed to power them. That’s a new ...
One of the most complicated challenges of a 100 percent renewable power grid is how to replace the inertial stability provided by the spinning generators that the modern grid is built to serve ...
Fluence, one of the largest suppliers of large-scale energy storage for the grid, is not a startup. It was formed as a joint venture between two massive global energy companies, power producer AES ...
Washington State Ferries, which runs the second-largest ferry system in the world, is switching from diesel to batteries amid a growing trend toward electrification in shipping. Ian Sterling ...