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Report: How many jobs will microgrids produce?
Investing in the renewable energy components of microgrids — especially energy storage and solar photovoltaics (PV) — generates jobs and yields economic benefits, along with resilience and environmental pluses. With additional regulation and incentives, those numbers could be even higher, according to the report.
Bad news. Santa’s bringing coal this year. How do we change the story?
Bad news. Santa is bringing coal this year. Lots of it. The International Energy Agency (IEA) expects coal-fired generation to reach a new worldwide record high by the end of 2021. This, of course, is the opposite of what supporters of microgrids want to see. The goal is a cleaner, not dirtier, electric system.