Storage & Renewable Energy Integration
2016
GE is building America's first offshore wind farm with turbines twice as tall as the Statue of Liberty; Leanna Garfield, Business Insider, Aug 17, 2018
Energy Storage Requirements for Achieving 50% Solar Photovoltaic Energy Production in California; Paul Denholm and Rober Margolis, National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Aug 2016 [Report]
Should Energy Storage Share the Tax Credits for Renewable Energy?; Nick Stumo-Langer, Institute for Local Self-Reliance, Aug 15, 2016
'Range anxiety' is scaring people away from electric cars — but the fear may be overblown; Chris Mooney, The Washington Post, Aug 15, 2016
Snowpack As Battery: A Primer; Katie Fulton, Citizen's Utility Board, Aug 9, 2016
Blackouts looming, California speeds battery deployment after Aliso Canyon gas leak; Peter Maloney, Utility Dive, Aug 11, 2016
Former Norwich dairy farm turns into solar energy site; Luther Turmelle, New Haven Register, Aug 10, 2016
Solar is Good. Solar Microgrids are Better; Elisa Wood, Microgrid Knowledge, Aug 8, 2016
Adelaide charges ahead with world's largest 'virtual power plant'; Michael Slezak, The Guardian, Aug 5, 2016
An Energy Storage Mandate Could Be Coming Soon to Massachusetts; Julian Spector, greentech:Media, Aug 02, 2016
German company plugs into L.A. area for its electricity storage operation; Ivan Penn, Los Angeles Times, Jul 31, 2016
Community Microgrid Project Profile: From Disaster to Opportunity in Freeport, NY; Microgrid Knowledge, Jul 27, 2016
Port of Los Angeles unveils $27 million solar+storage microgrid project; PV Magazine, Edgar Meza, Jul 27 , 2016
Living Lab for Advanced Microgrids in Sonoma…Elon Musk: "Not Some Silly, Hippy Thing"…National EV Charging Coming; Elisa Wood, Microgrid Knowledge, Jul 26, 2016
Germany Sets a New Solar Storage Record; Jeffrey H. Michel, The Energy Collective, July 18, 2016
GRID: Utilities give a first peek at N.Y.'s distributed energy future; Saqib Rahim and Peter Behr, E&E Publishing, Jul 7, 2016
Energy Storage Procurement Guidance Documents for Municipalities; Clean Energy Group/Clean Energy States Alliance, Jun 27, 2016
Is this the 'Non-Weird' Future of Microgrids?; Elisa Wood, Microgrid Knowledge, Jun 27, 2016
New York City Seeks Developer for District Energy Microgrid; Elisa Wood, Microgrid Knowledge, Jun 23, 2016
Greater than the sum: How aggregation is making storage into a software business; Herman K. Trabish, Utility Dive, Jun 13, 2016
Here's why the lights stayed on at NYU while the rest of Lower Manhattan went dark during Hurricane Sandy; Jeremy Deaton, Business Insider, Jun 11, 2016
We need lots more power lines. Why are we so bad at planning them?; David Roberts, Vox, Jun 9, 2016
Statement from ESA on Congressional Approval of an Energy Storage ITC; Energy Storage Association, May 25, 2016
Microgrids take off; Greg Scheu, Energy Central, May 18, 2016
What SolarCity's new portfolio of grid services can do for utilities; Herman K Trabish, Utility Dive, May 16, 2016
Electric Cars to Rival Tesla's Powerwall in Nissan Deal; Ania Nussbaum & Jessica Shankleman, Bloomberg, May 11, 2016
Why Used Electric Car Batteries Could Be Crucial To A Clean Energy Future; Joe Romm, Think Progress, May 9, 2016
Tesla will install more energy storage with Solarcity in 2016 than the USA installed in 2015; John Fitzgerald Weaver, electrek, Apr 25, 2016
New Discovery Leads to a Better Battery; Scicasts, Apr 22, 2016
"Community Storage" Is a New Way to Think About Reducing Grid Costs; Mark Dyson, Rocky Mountain Institute, Apr 18, 2016
First Grid-Scale Rail Energy Storage Project Gets Environmental Approval From BLM; Eric Wesoff, greentech:Media, Apr 18, 2016
Exelon's Next Big Stride: Connecticut Fuel Cell Microgrid; Elisa Wood, Microgrid Knowledge, Apr 14, 2016
Leading edge: Hawaii utilities push storage, solar integration for 100% renewables mandate; Peter Maloney, Utility Dive, Mar 21, 2016
India opens market for solar battery makers such as Tesla; Anindya Upadhyay, LiveMint, Mar 15, 2016
New Fuel Cell Design Powered By Graphene-Wrapped Nanocrystals; Scicasts, Mar 15, 2016
In a Big Northwest Earthquake, Microgrids Can Prevent Outages; Lisa Cohn, Microgrid Knowledge, Mar 10, 2016
GE creates 'sunrotor' system to store, generate clean energy; Brittany A. Roston, SlashGear, Mar 9, 2016
Mighty Microgrids; Matt Grimley & John Farrell, Institute for Local Self-Reliance, Mar 2016 [Reports]
Water Heaters: As Sexy as a Tesla?; Margaret McCall, Rocky Mountain Institute, Feb 24, 2016
Integrating Run-of-the-River Hydropower into a Microgrid for Reliability; Lisa Cohn, Microgrid Knowledge, Feb 22, 2016
Solar microgrids and batteries could prevent another Black Saturday bushfire; Max Opray, The Guardian, Feb 7, 2016
All the Benefits this Utility Expects from its Microgrid Test Projects; Lisa Cohn, Microgrid Knowledge, Jan 11, 2016
2015
Energy Storage Brings Resiliency to Eugene, OR; Todd Olinsky-Paul, Clean Energy States Alliance, Dec 21, 2015
3 Ways Wind and Solar Can Continue To Grow In a 21st-Century Grid; Mark Dyson, James Mandel, Ph.D., Amory B. Lovins, Rocky Mountain Institute, Nov 30, 2015
Sonnenbatterie Launches Solar-Plus-Storage Storage System for $10,645; Jason Deign, greentechMedia, Nov 25, 2015
Oregon saddles up to implement trailblazing energy storage mandate; Herman K. Trabish, Utility Dive, Nov 17, 2015
Will Utilities Look at Solar Microgrids in the Rearview Mirror and Say "Uh Oh"; Elisa Wood, Microgrid Knowledge, Nov 16, 2015
Automakers on Second-Life Batteries for the Grid: 'We Want a Foot in the Door of This Market'; Julia Pyper, greentech:Media, Nov 9, 2015
Cheap, Reliable, Lightweight Battery Near, but Not Here Yet; Umair Irfan, Scientific Amercian, Nov 2, 2015
Green Banks to Finance Microgrids?; Elisa Wood, Microgrid Knowledge, Nov 2, 2015
Here's how microgrids and utilities are getting along; Mike Hower, GreenBiz, Oct 30, 2015
Think tank report says German solar-plus-storage breakthrough is imminent, warns of challenges; Andy Colthorpe, PV Tech Storage, Oct 28, 2015
San Francisco braces for the Big One with microgrids; Laurie Guevara-Stone, Green Biz, Oct 26, 2015
Primer: The now and future impacts of energy storage; Herman K. Trabish, Utility Dive, Oct 20, 2015
Utilities and Microgrids: It's Complicated; Elisa Wood, Microgrid Knowledge, Oct 19, 2015
Rocky Mountain Institute: San Francisco Prepares for the Big One with Microgrids; Microgrid Knowledge, Oct 16, 2015
A 6 Step Methodology for Developing a Community Microgrid; Greg Thomson & Sierra Dall, Municipal Sustainability Forum, Oct 15, 2015
Kentucky utility installs home storage for demand response pilot program; Robert Walton, Utility Dive, Oct 9, 2015
Are German Transmission System Operators Against Energy Storage?; Stephen L. Prince, Renewable Energy World, Oct 5, 2015
Ontario electricity operator offers money for cutting power consumption; Shawn McCarthy, The Globe and Mail, Oct 5, 2015
US DOE Sees "Enormous" Benefit in Integrating Microgrids Nationwide; Elisa Wood, Microgrid Knowledge, Oct 2, 2015
Experimenting with Solar Microgrids: A Missouri Municipal Utility Teams Up on Effort; Hallie Heinzler, the Energy Times, Sep 29, 2015
Microgrids: Self-sufficient energy islands; Ethan Howland, Public Power Weekly, Sep 28, 2015
Duke Energy looks to create business opportunity from storage backup and microgrids; John Downey, Charlotte Business Journal, Sep 24, 2015
How aggregated storage can help utilities create a 'new kind of demand response'; Robert Walton, Utility Dive, Sep 23, 2015
Inside Southern California Edison's energy storage strategy; Gavin lade, Utility Dive, Sep 22, 2015
Portland General Electric could join CAISO Energy Imbalance Market; Herman K. Trabish, Utility Dive, Sep 22, 2015
Tesla battery storage tapped for Texas' first community solar project; Robert Walton, Utility Dive, Sep16, 2015
Virtual power plants: Moving beyond demand response to an integrated solution; Robert Walton, Utility Dive, Sep 16, 2015
Beyond batteries: The diverse technologies vying for the bulk storage market; Herman K. Trabish, Utility Dive, Sep 14, 2015
Adobe earns money from California grid-balancing in aggregated storage pilot; Andy Colthorpe, PVTech:Storage, Sep 08, 2015
Value of Battery-Backed Solar in California: 25 Cents per Kilowatt-Hour; Jeff St. John, greentechGrid, Sep 4, 2015
Why the future of microgrids won't look like the past; Robert Walton, Utility Dive, Jul 29, 2015
Beyond Energy: Making the Distributed Grid 'Capacity-Efficient'; Jeff St. John, greentechGrid, July 28, 2015
Should Utilities Own Distributed Battery Storage?; Michael O'Boyle & Sonia Aggarwal; greentechGrid, Jun 29, 2015
Valuing Customer-Sited Solar and Storage: Is Adding Batteries Worth It?; Jason Keyes, Renewable Energy World, Jun 24, 2015
What Mayors and City Leaders Need to Know about Community Microgrids; Elisa Wood, MicrogridKnowledge, Jun 17, 2015
Liquid Batteries for Solar and Wind Power; Henry Fountain, New York Times, Apr 22, 2015
How a smart grid project is pushing Northwest utilities to innovate; Robert Walton, Utility Dive, Apr 22, 2015
Batteries and Renewable Energy Set to Grow Together; Henry Fountain, New York Times, Apr 20, 2015
Oncor microgrid gives a peek into the future of distributed energy; Robert Walton, Utility Dive, Apr 15, 2015
The Economics of Load Defection; Rocky Mountain Institute, 2015
The Economics of Load Defection-Execuitve Summary; Peter Bronski, Jon Creyts,
Mark Crowdis, et al, April 2015
Advanced Inverter Functions to Support High levels of Distributed Solar: Policy and Regulatory Considerations; Joyce McLaren: National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Dec 11, 2014
Tesla's Closed Loop Battery Recycling Program; Kurt Kelty, Tesla Blog, Jan 26, 2011