The critical role of local solar in achieving 80% clean electricity by 2030

Описание: Traditional thinking tells us that utility-scale renewable energy resources are the most cost-effective lever to pull to decarbonize the US energy system. However, advanced planning models show us that coupling these remote resources with greater amounts of distributed energy resources like community and rooftop solar and battery storage actually maximizes cost savings and better distributes the myriad benefits of clean local energy.

Using the sophisticated WIS:dom®-P utility planning model, the latest Vibrant Clean Energy study from Local Solar for All provides data-driven evidence that coupling local solar with remote renewable energy will enable the US to meet the Biden administration’s bold 80% clean electricity by 2030 goal, at least cost and greatest benefit to the nation.

The following Vibrant Clean Energy reports commissioned by Local Solar for All examine the role of local solar in achieving:

-The Biden administration’s decarbonization goals (the focus of this webinar)
-California’s decarbonization goals (covered in a previous webinar)
-National goals to decrease CO2 emissions by 95% by 2050 (covered in this blog post)
-New York study (mentioned in this webinar)

This webinar will cover:

-Conventional thinking compared to the needed paradigm shift
-The study’s methodology and assumptions
-The importance of coordinating the transmission grid with the distribution grid to find the overall lowest system cost
-Detailed findings of the study
-Benefits of local solar+storage