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Supporting Microgrids

MCLI Recommendation: “Federal, state, and local governments should provide financial incentives for microgrid development.”

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Example States and State Governments

Massachusetts microgrid feasibility studies

In 2018, the Massachusetts Clean Energy Center provided $75,000 for feasibility studies to fourteen projects and communities across the state. This commitment followed up on previous studies into barr...
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Colorado 2022 Microgrid Legislation

In June 2022, Colorado enacted two microgrid-focused laws, HB1013 and HB1249. HB 1013 appropriates $3.5 million to create a Microgrids for Community Resilience Grant Program. A cooperative electric as...
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Connecticut’s Microgrid Grant and Loan Program

Connecticut’s Microgrid Grant and Loan Program (2012) has funded four rounds of grants to qualifying projects to study and build microgrids around critical facilities, defined as “any hospital, police...
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Connecticut’s HB 7006 (2020)

This 2020 legislation requires Connecticut’s Public Utilities Regulatory Authority (PURA) to investigate and develop a framework for implementing performance-based regulation for each electric distrib...
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Laurel MD solar microgrid

The Maryland Energy Administration awarded a grant to Standard Solar for the development of a large, entirely solar (402 kW) and battery powered microgrid in an office park in Laurel, MD, the first op...
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Maryland Resiliency Hub Legislation

In April 2022, Maryland adopted SB256 to provide grants for microgrid and community solar projects at resiliency hubs serving low-income and moderate-income households during extended grid outages. Pe...
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California’s SB 1339

California’s SB 1339 (2018) requires the CPUC to develop regulations, standards, and guidelines by December 1, 2020, to facilitate the commercialization of microgrids for customers of large electric u...
Example States and State Governments

NY Prize Program

The New York Prize program provides funding for microgrid development in three phases: first, a $100,000 prize for qualifying projects to conduct a screening study of microgrid feasibility; second, a ...
Resource Public Utilities

DC’s Proposed Light Touch Microgrid Regulation

Utility regulators in Washington, D.C., are considering a “lightened regulation” or “light touch” approach to microgrid rules, in an effort to facilitate deployment of more renewable energy and storag...