Author: LEED Blogger
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New York PSC approves smart meter for National Grid that’s ideal for wholesale market participation
Widespread installation of distributed energy resources will require an upgrade in utility equipment. Grid-edge technology to ease behind-the-meter projects (and potentially add more ROI) is especially useful. The New York Public Service Commission has approved the Landis+Gyr Revelo meter for use in electric metering applications in National Grid service territories throughout New York, and the……
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Black & Veatch completes assessment of Boviet’s Gamma and Vega Series PV modules
Black & Veatch completed an independent assessment of Boviet Solar Technology‘s Gamma Series Monofacial and Vega Series Bifacial PV Modules, manufactured at Boviet’s facility in Vietnam. Black & Veatch is a leading engineering, procurement, construction (EPC) and consulting company. Its independent PV module assessments are often relied upon by industry stakeholders to evaluate PV modules……
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FERC Order 2222 implementation ‘gaps’ present serious challenges, says Guidehouse Insights
In 2020, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) issued Order 2222 with the intent of opening regional transmission organization (RTO)/independent system operator (ISO) wholesale markets to aggregations of distributed energy and demand response resources (DER). Doing so would vastly expand the tools system operators can use to balance the transmission grid. Order 2222 also meant……
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Code crisis averted: ICC ready to designate solar, storage as Risk Category 2
In a release of preliminary results on the 2024 ICC Building Code online governmental vote, the International Code Council’s (ICC) members have approved two compromise proposals from the Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA) that designate solar and storage projects as Risk Category 2 infrastructure. Without SEIA’s proposals, S79-22 and S81-22, a proposal from the Federal……
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Four takeaways from California NEM 3.0 remix
California is taking a new shot at designing residential solar incentives after a revision proposed in December 2021 raised the ire of nearly everyone in the solar industry and, coincidentally, almost no one at the major utilities. The critique of last year’s Net Energy Metering proposal, known as NEM 3.0, centered on concerns that the……