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We tend to think that the Secretary of Energy has a hard job.  And it used to be exactly that, which is why the past two leaders of the U.S. Department of Energy, Dr. Ernest Moniz and Dr. Steven Chu, …

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The solar PV growth curves illustrate the rapid expansion in the deployment of this form for distributed generation (DG).  The only conclusion one can draw from looking at these graphs is that, after decades of customers’ putting their toes in …

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In today’s discussion on energy storage, senior energy analyst Glenn Doty writes: As far as who should pay for storage, that’s easy… the storage facility should pay for itself by the value that it adds to the grid. If it …

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