Sentences with phrase «solar policy models»

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Scenarios in the model reflect different economic and policy options that would influence e.g. natural gas prices, hydropower availability or cost of solar power.

CCSA is today releasing new model state legislation for community solar and an updated Policy Decision Matrix to guide policymakers in designing community solar programs tailored to their state.

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Based on CCSA's Core Principles, the model legislation represents proven successful and sensible community solar policy based on lessons learned from states across the country.

CCSA will work in partnership with consumers, local stakeholders, and utilities to promote smart policies and innovative program models to give all Americans in every community the ability to directly benefit from clean, affordable, and reliable solar power.

Prior to Vote Solar, she was a 2015 - 16 Fulbright scholar in India, where she researched policies and business models that enable solar microgrid development in rural communiSolar, she was a 2015 - 16 Fulbright scholar in India, where she researched policies and business models that enable solar microgrid development in rural communisolar microgrid development in rural communities.

The LBNL study — which models the effect of various policies on distributed solar deployment — does contain one bit of good news for utilities: The death spiral isn't inevitable.

Worried about self - preservation, and acting in its own best interest — rather than that of consumers specifically, and America in general — solar industry groups have sprung up to defend the favored - status energy policies and attack anyone who disagrees with the incentive - payment business model.

Using a «high - resolution electricity system planning model» of the DOE's two - year - old SunShot Initiative (meant to knock down the cost of solar electricity to market prices by 2020) alongside likely carbon - limitation policies, Kammen and company found that it's not unrealistic for solar to capture a third of the Western U.S. electricity market within 40 years, displacing currently more - attractive technologies like nuclear and natural gas.

Sunrun, the nation's largest residential solar installer that has battled HECO on net metering policies, said the law could be a model for other states.

Topics covered: solar tech, business models, regulation and policy, distributed solar, utility solar.

The American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) recently released a model resolution calling for the weakening of solar net metering policies that threaten the traditional utility industry business model.

«Declining solar costs, increasing customer awareness of the business model, and the opening of new state markets by policy, will all contribute,» reads the report.

clean energy innovation improving consumer choice and affordability more efficient use of energy deeper penetration of renewable energy resources wider deployment of «distributed» energy resources micro grids roof - top solar on - site power supplies and storage promote markets advanced energy management enhance demand elasticity and efficiencies empower customers more choice 50 % of its electricity from renewable resources by 2030 business as usual bad public policy clean energy's economic and environmental potential the power industry was headed for trouble rising utility bills growing customer dissatisfaction socially unjust clean energy economy haves - and - have - nots change in culture business model for the whole system moves the electric industry away from a monopoly, top - down and incentive driven system governed by the market emphasizes distributed energy a distributed system platform market exchange microgrids solar energy efficiency distributed energy resources compete to serve the grid pro-consumer pro-innovation markets - based more affordable resilient capital efficiencies encouraging more distributed energy demand response energy efficiency