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One of the ways SRP is addressing the effects of climate change and achieving decarbonization is by implementing more solar. Learn more about SRP's solar and battery storage systems here below! #electricutility #energyindustry #arizona #solarpower #batterystorage #decarbonization

Have you ever wondered what happens to solar energy once it’s captured? Or what happens at nighttime or on a stormy day? While the sun provides an abundant source of clean energy, this energy needs to be immediately used or stored in large batteries.   That’s where large-scale battery storage systems come into play.  In 2022, Salt River Project announced two new contracts to add more battery storage to our power system, which will bring our total battery storage to more than 1,100 MW by 2024. 

With staggering energy costs and an increasing awareness of the impact of greenhouse gas emissions, home and business owners are leaning into clean and renewable energy opportunities such as solar power generation. Fortunately, solar system installation is more affordable than ever. Spotts, Stevens and McCoy https://lnkd.in/eyvyyaeR

The DOE SETO team shares the Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of Energy Efficiency & Renewable Energy (three times fast ;) Jeff Marootian's solar industry challenge, a model for siting community solar, a new NREL Report, and more at this link!

An interesting comment by Rod Welford on quite a good article by www.thefifthestate.com.au Rod says “Our main utility companies are still proceeding on the basis that THEY are the energy suppliers and the centralised grid the the mainstay of the system just like the 'old' days.” I checked to see if Rod was from the USA or elsewhere that has “utility” electricity providers … he’s not … he’s in QLD but even the daylight saving joke of being an hour and 10 years behind does get him out of trouble (the NEM is over 2 decades old)! We do NOT have utilities … the sad thing is we do still have a lot of vertical integrated thinking by politicians and our regulatory triumvirate AEMC, AER, and AEMO … and of course by the incumbent gentailers trying to preserve their “utility” glory days! The extraordinary thing is that with our structurally separated deregulated NEM we have the best opportunity for the CONSUMER GRID … an optimisation of the Distribution Networks as a platform to deliver the lowest community cost energy system!! However we are our own worst enemy … the gentailers resist any/all network tariff reform, and facilitate pitting some consumers versus others! We need low cost storage deep in distribution with a focus saving consumers on their energy rather than retailers (read gentailers) making profits via arbitrage! That’s what Community Batteries with ESaaS (Energy Storage as a Service) deliver … in spades! A DNSP/DSO partnership with Consumers to deliver the Consumer Grid would dramatically reduce the community cost of energy. However an essential part of that is a understanding that the distribution network is a community commons for energy *flow* not (just) delivery. We need to think of distribution as subscription platform that provides us the capacity to BOTH import and export … it’s the dynamic nature of the flows that is important. Then we can use the network free of “tolls” to export excess RTS to a Community Battery, and get it back, and/or store cheap (even free or be paid to take) grid VRE to use later (if we don’t have RTS)! We would just have to a path a “round trip” ESaaS fee though that buffer. That ESaaS fee would always be less than trying to do it with our own BTM battery and that’s before all the risks, dramas, and would be pickpockets trying to elk an earning out of your battery! A Community Battery’s much more easily managed value stack revenues would simply be used to lower the ESaaS (as it’s using the consumers’ energy for FFR, FCAS, network support etc.). We (consumers and our regulators) really have to look at DNSPs differently, focus on them being DSO’s with the Consumer being THE “stakeholder” and “client” with the regulatory focus being, as it is now, the lowest community cost of energy (ie the NEO)! Anna Collyer Clare Savage Marc England Rob Amphlett Lewis John Cleland Mike Cole Guy Chalkley Scott Ryan Andrew Bills Brendon Hampton Lynne Gallagher Benn Barr Ben Potter Dan Bolger

We asked our energy team to break down some of the key financial opportunities available by going solar. Check out the article below to learn more Spoiler alert: the return on investment has never been quicker!

Discover the future of solar energy with our latest blog post on solar energy storage technologies. Learn how these innovations are making solar power more efficient and sustainable for homes. Read, share, and join the conversation about renewable energy!

🔋☀️Big news for the US Solar industry! 2023 was a record year for grid-scale energy storage installation in the US! Check out this article from Kelly Pickerel at Solar Power World detailing the advances we've made in the industry. #SolarEPC #SolarPower #RenewableEnergy #Sustainability

Unlocking the Potential of Solar Energy: Explore Maryland's Solar Energy Grant Program to discover how you can benefit from the state's incentives and support for renewable energy. #MarylandSolar #RenewableEnergy #Grants https://lnkd.in/ent2Pj4T

Distributed generation is an indispensable component in our #cleanenergy transition because it provides a more flexible and efficient approach to #solar adoption. Read Dan Smith's entire article on the important of DG solar on Solar Power World. ⤵️