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A Vermont Utility Plans to End Outages by Giving Customers Batteries: Green Mountain Power, a Vermont utility, is asking regulators to approve a plan to address problems with grid reliability by providing battery storage systems to the households most prone to power failures. This is an unusual proposal for a utility, but Green Mountain Power has been on the leading edge of encouraging the use of home-based batteries, as Ivan Penn reports for The New York Times.
Making Solar Energy as Clean as Can Be Means Fitting Square Panels Into the Circular Economy: We Recycle Solar is one of the companies trying to build a market for reusing and recycling solar panels and their materials. Like many businesses in a nascent industry, The Arizona-based company has advantages as an early mover but disadvantages because there isn’t much infrastructure yet for solar recycling, as my colleagues Emma Peterson and Wyatt Myskow report for ICN. This story is a reminder that most of the mass in a solar panel is glass, so despite all the talk of rare materials in the clean energy economy, the main task for a recycler is figuring out what to do with all that glass.