Bridging the Gap: How Emerging State Policies are Making Energy Storage Affordable and Accessible

NEW REPORT

As energy storage becomes an increasingly integral tool to deliver numerous benefits to communities and to the electric grid, the question of how to make this new technology broadly affordable and accessible becomes more urgent, particularly for state agencies tasked with meeting clean energy goals. A new report compiles the results of independent research conducted by the Clean Energy States Alliance (CESA) and Sandia National Laboratories, providing a summary of emerging affordability and accessibility approaches in leading state energy storage programs. The intent is to create a body of reference material that can be used in state energy storage policymaking across diverse geographical and regulatory jurisdictions.

The report, Bridging the Gap: How Emerging State Policies are Making Energy Storage Affordable and Accessible, highlights emerging strategies used by the leading states to advance energy storage adoption in underserved and low-income communities. While the challenges are daunting, early results from at least some of these programs show that positive results can be achieved when states adopt a focused and long-term commitment.

READ THE REPORT HERE

This material is based upon work supported by the U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Electricity (OE), Energy Storage Division.

UPCOMING WEBINAR

Bridging the Gap: How Emerging State Policies are Making Energy Storage Affordable and Accessible

Tuesday, January 7, 2-3:30pm ET

Report authors Todd Olinsky-Paul (Senior Project Director, CESA) and Will McNamara (Energy Storage Policy Analyst, Sandia National Labs) will discuss the emerging practices and lessons learned from states. Elischia Fludd (Environmental Justice Senior Lead, Massachusetts Department of Energy Resources) joins to discuss relevant provisions in Massachusetts programs. Additionally, Broderick Bagert (Organizer, Together New Orleans) joins to discuss the Community Lighthouse Project, an initiative that has created a network of resilient, solar-powered community resilience hubs for communities to access in the wake of hurricanes or other disasters.

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This webinar is a presentation of the Energy Storage Technology Advancement Partnership (ESTAP). ESTAP is a federal-state funding and information sharing project that aims to accelerate the deployment of electrical energy storage technologies in the U.S. ESTAP is funded by the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Electricity, managed by Sandia National Laboratories, and administered by the Clean Energy States Alliance.