New Report Shows Rapidly Increasing Distributed Solar and Storage is Critical to Achieving President Biden’s Climate and Equity Goals at the Lowest Cost
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Thursday, October 7, 2021
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The U.S. must deploy a minimum of 103 gigawatts (GW) of distributed, local solar power and 137 GW of distributed energy storage by 2030 to achieve President Bidens climate and equity goals at the lowest cost.
Key Points:
- The U.S. must deploy a minimum of 103 gigawatts (GW) of distributed, local solar power and 137 GW of distributed energy storage by 2030 to achieve President Bidens climate and equity goals at the lowest cost.
- At least 103 GW of distributed solar and 137 GW of distributed storage must be deployed by 2030 to achieve President Bidens goals at the lowest cost.
- Scaling up distributed solar and storage reduces stress on utility-scale resources and enables access to 579 GW of utility-scale solar and 442 GW of wind.
- Scaling up distributed solar and storage saves all ratepayers over $109 billion by 2030 compared to deploying utility-scale renewables only.