Provides funding for microgrid development in three phases.
Incorporates an Energy Shared Storage Adder to a more traditional renewable incentive program.
Authorized the Public Utility Commission to double the budget for the Self-Generation Incentive Program.
Encouraged investor-owned utilities to develop up to 500 MW of storage.
Offered different incentive levels to residential solar customers of the state’s three major investor utilities.
Showing that wind energy is responsible for less than 0.01% of human-caused bird fatalities.
Emphasizes minimal bird impacts, notes that bat impacts can be minimized or compensated for.
On the impacts and regulation surrounding birds and bats takings from wind energy, providing a brief overview of relevant federal and state regulations.
Wind Turbine Interactions with Wildlife and Their Habitats, and Bats and Wind Energy: Impacts, Mitigation, and Tradeoffs.
Maps important ecological resources, such as sensitive habitats, large forest blocks, and migration routes