Solar Pilots Set for Northeast Utilities

摘要

This summer, two northeastern utilities have launched residential solar and energy-storage pilot projects, designed to reduce ratepayers' electricity costs while improving the grid's reliability. In New York, 300 homeowners are participating in a $15-million Con Edison "virtual power-plant" project, the utility says. Sun-Power will provide solar storage batteries, while Sunverge will provide the integration. Ravi Manghani, senior research analyst at Green Tech Media, calls Con Ed's 1.8-MW residential distributed energy-storage project "the largest to my knowledge." However, Green Mountain Power's Tesla pilot project in Vermont will have more deployments-500 versus 300.