One of the first steps in planning and procurement for local utility storage or solar-plus-storage is to check for contractual and policy barriers that could affect the proposed acquisition. Incentives and new opportunities may also be unearthed. To support this early-stage effort, the SPECs project produced a white paper, which examines three levels of policy as they apply to the co-op sector and to local co-ops in particular. These include 1) state and local policies, 2) federal policies and related regional policies, and 3) policies and conventions that stem from institutions in the co-op sector, especially the relationships and agreements between local co-ops and their wholesale generating and transmission (G&T) suppliers. The objective of this paper is to identify and discuss the various policy and institutional factors that are relevant to the electric cooperative sector, and especially to local, distribution-level electric cooperatives (co-ops) that may be interested in procuring energy storage.
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DownloadThis report was developed following a workshop held on December 11, 2017 in Raleigh, North Carolina to explore the opportunities and barriers to making community solar available for low income households. The North Carolina Clean Energy Technology Center and the North Carolina Justice Center hosted Identifying Benefits, Barriers, and Solutions to Low-Income
Community Solar for Cooperative and Municipal Utilities in the Southeast, an in-person, half-day workshop with 38 attendees from 24 different organizations. The workshop participants represent a broad range of interests needed to address the challenges and opportunities for low to moderate income (LMI) community solar development in the Southeast.
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N.C. Clean Energy Technology Center (NCCETC) staff members from the Clean Transportation, Policy, and Clean Power & Industrial Efficiency teams recently worked together to help produce an Energy Storage, Electric Vehicles (EVs) and EV Charging Study for Fayetteville Public Works Commission (PWC).
The Energy Storage, EV & EV Charging study provides information about energy storage applications and services, electric vehicle options and trends, electric vehicle charging, EV fleets, initiatives by other utilities, relevant legislative policy, grid impact, codes and standards, incentives and tariffs – all considerations to help establish strategic direction for Fayetteville PWC.
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