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Why is the US walking away from energy efficiency?

Why is the US walking away from energy efficiency?

Energy efficiency is the least expensive energy there is, yet our ACC recently repealed the EE rules, stating that they put a burden on rate-payers. Not true. When one home becomes more energy efficient, it lowers everyone's electric bill because expensive upgrades to the grid become unnecessary. ENERGY EFFICIENCY

u/Arizona-Energy — 3 hours ago

New Hampshire legislature advances plug-in solar bill to governor

Balcony solar is gaining unstoppable momentum here in the US. 7 states have sent bills to their governor, and many more are looking at it. It didn't pass here in Arizona this time, but hopefully we can get it through next year. Plug-in solar

u/Arizona-Energy — 1 day ago

Firm solar and storage costs fall to $75/MWh, says IRENA

Another agency confirms that solar + storage is the cheapest and most reliable form of energy that's available today.

IRENA

u/Arizona-Energy — 2 days ago

Competitive markets are best for virtual power plants, consumers

The utilities recognize that virtual power plants are the next thing happening in the energy world, so they want to own it. There is no point in paying shareholders when we can own the VPP ourselves. VPP's

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u/Arizona-Energy — 4 days ago

The high cost of Arizona’s energy cancel culture

The following article has 1 error in it: both APS and TEP have reached their 15% target. However, there is a valid point made that there is opposition to the cheapest, most reliable, and quickest to deploy source of energy, solar + storage, because of partisan reasons.

u/Arizona-Energy — 5 days ago
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For cheaper power, Virginia’s local utilities build small grid batteries

Virtual power plants will be the thing of the future. Virginia is touching on this by investing in small batteries.

u/Arizona-Energy — 7 days ago

Community Choice Aggregation (CCA) happens when a town purchases the electricity from different energy generators, i.e., wind farms, solar farms, etc., and then sells the electricity to the people, bypassing the investor-owned utility. This can lead to cheaper and cleaner energy. Tucson is currently looking into this, but state law needs to change for this to happen. The state of Maine is now allowing CCA's.

CCA in Maine

u/Arizona-Energy — 13 days ago

This will be taking off in the US in the next few years. Here in Arizona we nixed it this year, but it will come back next year, and we have to tell our legislators to support it.

Balcony solar

u/Arizona-Energy — 15 days ago

One month ago, it was reported that Australia would be getting 3 hours of free electricity every day starting July 1st. This is because they have so much rooftop solar. Now I find this article that says, in South Australia, they will actually be paid to use electricity, through credits on their electric bill, because of too much electricity on the grid (need to balance out supply and demand). Take a look!

South Australia's grid

u/Arizona-Energy — 18 days ago