State’s Energy Plan for a Long Hot 2021 summer

The State: California

The energy options California is considering to protect itself from blackouts and brownouts:

• Lithium storage (battery storage) of solar energy
  • as grid resources to form “virtual power plants” that bring together hundreds or thousands of batteries
  • as residential energy back up
• Incentivizing energy conservation

What do stakeholders, like California Solar and Storage Assn. say?

• must simplify the process of applying for clean energy subsidies
• maintain “net metering” compensation program
• change the system to allow households, with batteries, to export electricity to the grid during emergencies
• speed up local government approval processes 

LA Times via Governing | California Looks for Ways to Alleviate Coming Energy Squeeze