Tag: Clean Coalition
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Solar + Whatever: Different ways installers can provide home energy resilience
It only takes one hurricane, tornado or wildfire for the value of a resilient home energy system to sink in. Add to such increasing natural disasters the unpopular new utility practice in California of Public Safety Power Shutoffs (PSPS) — a preemptive shut down of swaths of the grid toRead More — Solar Builder magazine
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Big news: California PUC adds ‘avoided transmission costs’ to value of distributed energy resources
In a big win for clean local energy in California, the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) has agreed to include avoided transmission costs as part of the valuation of distributed energy resources (DER). The CPUC uses the Avoided Cost Calculator (ACC) as a key tool to calculate the valueRead More — Solar Builder magazine
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Santa Barbara School District to build solar-driven microgrids to improve community resilience
As deadly wildfires and Public Safety Power Shutoffs (PSPS) become the “new normal” in California, communities are increasingly turning to renewables-driven microgrids to maintain power for their most critical loads during grid outages that can last for days or potentially weeks. To bring these communities unparalleled economic, environmental, and resilienceRead More — Solar Builder magazine
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Watt’s Next? A crowd-sourced collection of ideas, innovations and inquiries for the Solar+ Decade
It’s gonna break my heart to see it blown to bits. That’s the refrain of the best song of 2019, “Blown to Bits” by Charly Bliss — a catchy rumination on the state of the world right now. It was playing in my headphones as I put this section togetherRead More — Solar Builder magazine
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This California city is trying a community microgrid to improve resiliency against wildfires, PG&E shutoffs
The City of Calistoga, Calif., is in Pacific Gas & Electric (PG&E) territory, and therefore subject to PG&E’s Public Safety Power Shutoffs (PSPS) during times of high fire danger. The city experienced two PSPS warnings last fall, and a 48-hour shutoff disrupted the city and led to lost revenue for localRead More — Solar Builder magazine