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New Report: California Ratepayers Can Save $120B with Sustained Local Solar and Storage Growth
Enabling the continued growth of DERs like rooftop and community solar and battery storage would save California ratepayers $120 billion over the next 30 years.
Why rooftop solar and home batteries make a clean grid vastly more affordable
Distributed energy is not an alternative to big power plants — it's a complement.
New Analysis: Local Solar Could Save Illinois $3.4 Billion as State Transitions to 100% Carbon-free Electricity
A new analysis reveals that developing 8.5 gigawatts (GW) of local rooftop and community solar by 2030 as part of Illinois’ quest for 100% clean electricity would save money and reduce electricity rates for Illinois families and businesses by 43%, or $39 per month based on today’s average electricity consumption.
Broad Coalition Calls on Congress to Expand Solar Access for All
A coalition of advocates representing civil rights, indigenous, environment, equity, rural, and business organizations is calling on Congress to prioritize the equitable and just deployment of renewable energy through policies that support expanding local rooftop and community solar power for all.
Want a more distributed and lower cost power system? Try this new planning tool
A new tool from Vibrant Clean Energy offers system modeling to match today's granularity and breaks the barrier between bulk system and distribution system planning.
Boiling Point: How rooftop solar could save Americans $473 billion
With less than two weeks until Joe Biden takes office — and with Democrats taking control of the Senate — the growth of clean energy is poised to accelerate. Even if Congress doesn’t fully embrace the president-elect’s $2-trillion climate plan, there will be plenty of actions his administration can take to support renewable power and put pressure on fossil fuels.
New DER planning model shows why local solar for all costs less
The grid of the not-so-distant future will be clean, distributed and co-optimized. What that means is that generation and other resources on transmission and distribution lines will be designed and built to work together for maximum efficiency and savings for individual customers and the system as a whole.
The roadmap to the lowest cost grid is paved with distributed solar and storage
For months now we have heard President-elect Joe Biden tout the job and economic growth that would come from transitioning to a clean electric grid. We’ve also heard from critics who say the new clean electric grid he is proposing will cost upwards of $2 trillion.
The US would save billions if local solar powered just 25% of homes
Vote Solar, the Coalition for Community Solar Access, and solar provider Sunrun (Nasdaq: RUN) conducted a study that found that if just a quarter of US households were powered by local rooftop and community solar and storage, Americans would benefit financially and environmentally overall in a very big way.
Scaling distributed solar and storage is lowest-cost path for US to reach clean electric grid – study
Deploying at least 247GW of rooftop and community solar and 160GW of local energy storage is the most cost-effective way for the US to transition to a clean energy system by 2050, a new report has found.
New report makes the case for local solar + storage to lead U.S. transition to clean energy
Developing 247 GW of local rooftop and community solar and 160 GW of local energy storage is the most cost-effective way for the United States to transition to a clean energy system by 2050, while saving consumers up to $473 billion on electricity. This is enough local solar to power over 25% of all U.S. homes. These are among the core findings of a new report, “Why Local Solar for All Costs Less: A New Roadmap for the Lowest Cost Grid,” issued by Vote Solar, the Coalition for Community Solar Access and Sunrun.
EXPANDING LOCAL SOLAR AND STORAGE COULD SAVE RATEPAYERS NEARLY A HALF A TRILLION DOLLARS
Developing 247 GW of local rooftop and community solar and 160 GW of local energy storage is the most cost-effective way for the United States to transition to a clean energy system by 2050, while saving consumers up to $473 billion on electricity.
ROOFTOP AND COMMUNITY SOLAR TEAM UP TO LAUNCH “LOCAL SOLAR FOR ALL” CAMPAIGN
A coalition of companies and advocates representing rooftop and community solar has announced the launch of Local Energy for All, a campaign advocating for a more local, clean, and affordable energy grid. Local Energy for All’s mission is to create a safer, more affordable, and more equitable way to supply power to our communities.