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A new video geared to at-risk youth features AJ, who found out about the growing solar industry from his Job Corps advisor. Students throughout the country can learn about AJ’s journey to a rewarding career in solar, thanks to an innovative partnership between IREC and Home Builders Institute (HBI).
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Designed to help regulators and stakeholders evaluate and improve voluntary community solar across the country, the checklist promotes scalable and replicable community solar programs that benefit customers and communities. Developed in collaboration with our friends at VoteSolar.
On November 28, IREC and VoteSolar hosted a webinar on the checklist and other shared renewables resources, including the IREC Shared Renewables Scorecard and Policy Catalog.
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and watch the archived version.
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Join us as prominent national and state clean energy influencers lead thought-provoking expert panels and targeted outcome-driven discussions at this day-long event tailored for energy decision makers, advocates and educators. Keynote opening remarks by Rose McKinney-James, a national role model for legislative and regulatory advocacy for renewable and clean energy policy. Program descriptions, speakers and event details
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South Carolina Tackles
Unprecedented
Interstate Interconnection Issues
When Duke Energy recently sought to waive one state’s rules in order to allow projects to participate in a program initiated by a neighboring state, it opened a can of worms relating to fairness, rate prudency and grid transparency. An unprecedented issue, IREC stepped in to help shape a South Carolina policy outcome that avoids unintended consequences for ratepayers and renewable energy developers in that state. Now other states and utilities ought to take note: consider the implications of distributed energy resource (DER) incentives or interconnection rules on
all
stakeholders — including those located in other states.
Originally published in UtilityDive 11/13/18
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For the 4th year, students from across the Grid Engineering for Accelerated Renewable Energy Deployment (GEARED) network will showcase their research
to bring innovative solutions to power system challenges associated with the evolving smart grid
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Over 40 posters will be on display in the conference hall of DistribuTECH 2019 in February.
GEARED is preparing the current and next generation power systems engineers specifically to work with high penetrations of solar electricity and other distributed technologies on the grid. IREC has been GEARED's national network administrator since launched in 2013.
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The 2018 Scorecard, released late in October, provides a valuable tool for policymakers, regulators and other stakeholders to compare 17 active state shared renewables programs (distributed across 13 states and the District of Columbia). Program strengths, weaknesses and opportunities are evaluated. Complementing the scorecard, IREC’s updated
Shared Renewables Policy Catalog
compiles details of all state shared renewables programs. Together, the catalog and scorecard offer valuable insight into these programs.
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IREC in the News
Shared Renewables Scorecard
Community Solar Checklist
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