• Energy

How ‘Bout That D.E.R?

• distributed energy
• pipelines

It’s been quite a week for pipelines. Though the Colonial pipeline has resumed operations after being shut down by hackers earlier this week, its shuttering prompted gas shortages across the South and East Coast. The incident also increased calls by green groups and clean energy advocates to step up distributed energy resources. Wind and solar […]

• Energy

Making Microgrids More Accessible

• battery
• California
• distributed energy
• microgrid
• Solar
• wildfires

In the aftermath of the recent PG&E shutdowns, we wrote about the hardships that Californians faced–especially those who didn’t have solar and battery storage available to them.

Fighting climate change means helping ease upfront costs of distributed energy so that it becomes available to low-income households as well as wealthier ones.

• Energy

Microgrids the Solution to CA’s Wildfires?

• California
• DER
• distributed energy
• microgrid
• PG&E

Last week the massive power shutoffs enacted by California’s largest electric utility, PG&E, affected millions of people and even lead to the death of a man whose ventilator stopped working. In the aftermath, there’s a lot of anger among PG&E customers and across the state, people are grappling with how to best address wildfire prevention. […]

• Energy

PG&E files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy

• bankruptcy
• California
• distributed energy
• PG&E
• public utility
• Solar
• utility
• wildfires

It’s been a long road for Pacific Gas and Electric, after facing possible murder charges for its role in California’s recent wildfires as well as lawsuits from survivors, the utility has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy. As PV Magazine explained, the filing is a financial move that allows PG&E to reorganize its debts, and does not involve […]

• Energy

California looks to more distributed solar

• California
• DER
• distributed energy
• renewable energy
• Solar

We wrote recently that after the massively destructive wildfires in California in 2017 and 2018, the state’s largest electric utility, PG&E, was facing criticisms that large utilities have become an obsolete way to provide power to people in a state prone to wildfires. The argument is that PG&E is incapable of managing risk and its response […]