Today, there’s a battle brewing across the US to reinvigorate a little-used law and bring it into alignment with a modern marketplace riper than ever for small-scale renewables. Like other policies that present compelling local economic value — among them net metering and community solar — PURPA lives or dies by its implementation.
Nevada Governor Brian Sandoval signed a handful of new solar and energy related bills today in Carson City to help the state pivot away from the anti-consumer, anti-solar net metering regulation that forced SolarCity out of the state in late 2015.
Major urban low-carbon innovations include net metering, vehicle fleet emissions standards, complete streets zoning, wind-powered trains and electric buses, all driven by regulation and policy.
4 US states lead the nation in net metering and interconnection policies designed to make installing solar energy easier for homeowners and businesses.
A new report ranks states on net metering and interconnection policies designed to boost small-scale renewables. […]
Brazil’s been slow to realize its vast solar energy potential, but that’s changing. Brazil’s Agencia Nacional de Energia Electrica said that in two weeks it will enact new regulations that offer solar energy tax breaks to utilities and authorize net metering, which would allow consumers and businesses to sell electricity from renewable sources to grid operators.
Net metering and grid interconnection may not be as sexy as solar panel breakthroughs and consumer products, but I think they are at least as important. And I think the renewable energy advocates and experts who create the annual Freeing the Grid report agree with me.
Freeing the Grid is a policy guide that grades all 50 states on two key programs: net metering and interconnection procedures. The 2011 Edition of Freeing the Grid was released this week.
Recently Jefferies Group, one of the United States largest investment banks, asked me to speak to a global group of their clients, institutional investors representing billions and possibly trillions in funds.
A couple of weeks ago, I presented to a group of institutional investors, clients of Jefferies Group investment bank. One … [continued]
Legacy forms of electrical generation are going to diminish radically in significance. Total energy requirements are going to halve. Renewable generation will dominate. Grids will become even more important. Storage will be everywhere.
