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CESA Releases Residential Solar Group-Purchasing Guide for State Policy Makers

September 4, 2014

The New England Solar Cost-Reduction Partnership, a coalition of five New England States managed by the Clean Energy States Alliance (CESA), has produced a new guide for community group purchasing, “Planning and Implementing a Solarize Initiative: A Guide for State Program Managers.”

Clean Energy States Alliance’s ESTAP Project Director, Todd Olinsky-Paul, discusses the energy storage component of the Stafford Hill Project with other guest speakers at the project’s press event, including Mary Powell, President of Green Mountain Power, Vermont Governor Peter Shumlin, and Dr. Imre Gyuk of the US Department of Energy.

Solar + Energy Storage = Resilient Power in Vermont

August 12, 2014

Around the country, a new model is arising to provide clean, reliable, locally generated and locally managed energy: solar power combined with energy storage in the form of batteries.

CESA States Push For Grid Modernization

June 18, 2014

We in the Northeast have seen firsthand the enormity of the changes wrought by Hurricane Sandy – not only the storm damage itself, but subsequent and longer-lasting changes in state policy addressing resilient power and the electric grids.

Like Federal Renewable Energy Policy, State Policy Is Important and Uncertain

January 7, 2013

Clean energy advocates have praised the decision in the fiscal cliff legislation to extend important federal energy tax provisions, such as the production tax credit for wind.

New Massachusetts Report Identifies Renewable Thermal Opportunities

June 11, 2012

For many types of renewable technologies and fuels, producing thermal energy is much more efficient than producing electricity. Yet the vast majority of state Renewable Portfolio Standards address renewable thermal technologies minimally, if at all.

Long Island Solar Farm – How Public/Private/Federal Partnerships Can Make Big Things Happen

April 2, 2012

In early 2012, the Long Island Solar Farm, located in Upton, NY on Long Island, was given the Renewable Energy World’s “Excellence in Renewable Energy – Reader’s Choice Award.”