The US Senate passed a bipartisan “Energy Modernization Act” last week. Despite its many shortcomings (Katie Herzog, writing for Grist, describes the bill as an “…energy modernization bill that would have been modern in 1980”), the bill has one feature particularly noteworthy for those of us in the microgrid world – it explicitly calls out microgrids as part of the future US energy solution, for both basic electricity delivery in remote communities and resilience for the grid-connected communities that make up the vast majority of US households.
US Senate Recognizes Hybrid Microgrids as Part of Energy Modernization Act
on May 4, 2016
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