Featured in Gas busters – 09-2020

One million solar charged batteries

What catapulted solar to massive growth 14 years ago was a move beyond the “techie” and “greenie” niche markets of the 1980s and 1990s and into the mainstream, driven by consumer demand for energy bill savings and reliability (think the Enron debacle in the United States). Storage now needs its own transformational program if it hopes to move beyond the “prepper” and “shaver” niche markets it occupies today.

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pv magazine

08 Sep 2020

Bernadette Del Chiaro, executive director, California Solar & Storage Association (CALSSA) | Image: CALSSA

How can this happen? First, net energy metering (NEM) policies will continue to be the linchpin for the growth of both solar and storage. It is bad math to think storage will negate the need for NEM, or vice versa.We can get the load-shifting benefits of batteries without forcing batteries to be big enough to …

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