Why Local Solar + Storage Is a Pillar of the Net-Zero Grid

Energy Gang

Wood Mackenzie

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🗓️ 22 January 2021

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

This week, we finally left behind a destructive regime that thwarted environmental policy at every turn. We exchanged it for a government putting climate experts and clean-energy doers in its highest ranks in a way that no prior administration has done before.

What comes next?

First up this week: If Biden wants his $2 trillion climate spending plan to make a bigger impact, should he emphasize rooftop solar and small-scale batteries? A leading modeler says a local solar-storage plan could save hundreds of billions of dollars as we build out the net-zero grid.

Then: the board members of major corporations are often ignorant about climate change and what it takes to address it, according to a new report from NYU’s Stern business school. Why is that true – still? What can be done about it?

And last: Should you sign up for your utility’s green power program? Is there a better way to guarantee that your monthly power bill supports the world you envision? We’ll answer a listener question.

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0:00.0	The Energy Gang is brought to you by Sungrow. Sungrow is meeting the growing calls for deep decarbonization with constant innovation across its inverter business.
0:10.0	Sungrow is the leading provider of PV inverter solutions around the world.
0:13.8	It's delivered 10 gigawatts of inverters to the Americas alone and 120 gigawatts in total
0:18.9	across the globe.
0:20.4	Even as the pandemic affected our lives and crippled much of the economy in 2020,
0:26.0	Sungrow was able to deliver its technology on time while keeping an eye
0:29.0	toward what the future of clean energy will need.
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0:33.4	R&D at sungrow power.com. We're also brought to you by Seapower.
0:39.0	Seapower is back with a webinar series aimed to help organizations make sense of the chaos of the pandemic and what's happening in energy markets and optimize their energy use and energy spend in 2021.
0:52.8	The chances are good that the pandemic has affected energy management for your organization.
0:57.2	In this hour-long webinar series features market by market breakdowns to help energy planners
1:02.3	make the right decisions to lower energy costs,
1:04.8	earn revenue, help grid reliability, and achieve sustainability goals.
1:08.7	Visit the C-power Way.com slash 2021 to register. There are a bunch of webinars coming up and you don't want to miss
1:15.2	them.
1:16.2	Green Tech Media Podcasts This is the Energy Gang.
1:25.0	Weekly debates and discussions about the fast-changing world of energy.
1:30.0	I'm Stephen Lacy.
1:31.0	Welcome.
1:32.0	I Joseph Robinette Biden Jr. do solemnly swear.
1:36.0	I Joseph Robinette Biden Jr. do solemnly swear.
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