New York is pouring hundreds of millions of dollars to jump start its solar market. Those efforts are just now starting to bear dramatic results. In the first quarter developers filed requests to connect solar projects to the state’s grid totalling over 670 megawatts of generating capacity, according to a report by the New York…...
California is engaged in increasingly more granular DER activities spread across a number of proceedings for energy efficiency, energy storage, demand response, residential rate structures, and alternative-fueled vehicle programs. The two main proceedings are the Distribution Resource Planning (DRP) proceeding (R.14-08-013) aimed at determining the values of DER and the locations for DER deployment by…
Hawaii is trying to facilitate a longer-term competitive market structure after capacity limits under its grid supply program – a replacement to NEM that was ended in October 2015 – were reached earlier than anticipated. The alternative self-supply program has been slow due to multiple issues including battery costs and technical and permitting issues. The…