In a blog for Smart Electric Power Alliance, Guidehouse Insights shares how utilities and local governments are utilizing microgrids as a tool for resiliency
As climate change drives more frequent natural disasters across the globe, microgrids are increasingly being recognized as a resilience solution.
In a co-authored blog for the Smart Electric Power Alliance (SEPA), Peter Asmus, research director at Guidehouse Insights, discussed actions stakeholders are taking to further commercialize microgrids as a tool to provide local energy resilience and facilitate clean energy deployment.
Asmus and his co-author outlined four key messages that stand out in recent policy and market developments:
To date, lawmakers in 18 different states have proposed or enacted 112 bills with New York (15), Massachusetts (14), and New Jersey (13) leading the way in the northeast.