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Energy Storage News•about 2 months ago

•The Puerto Rico Energy Bureau (PREB) has approved a motion allowing Tesla, Sunrun, and SunStrong Management to auto-enroll residential energy storage participants into an emergency capacity resource program.
•This regulatory decision streamlines the aggregation of distributed residential battery storage, creating a new pathway for these assets to provide grid services and generate revenue.
•The program aims to leverage aggregated residential storage as a critical emergency capacity resource, enhancing grid resilience and potentially reducing reliance on traditional generation during peak demand or grid instability events.

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Utility Dive•about 2 months ago

•State governments hold significant control over permitting hurdles for rooftop solar and battery installations, impacting their affordability and deployment.
•Reforming these permitting processes is presented as a key component of state affordability agendas, suggesting potential reductions in soft costs for distributed energy resources (DERs).
•While focused on residential, streamlined permitting for solar and batteries can reduce project timelines and costs, benefiting commercial, industrial, and utility-scale distributed generation developers and large power consumers.

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