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Students and industry push Massachusetts to study grid battery storage and expand distributed storage programs
Summary
High school students and industry witnesses urged the Joint Committee to back S.2325, a Clean Energy Center-led study of battery storage, and to authorize programs that would better deploy distribution-connected batteries to reduce outages and lower peak-driven costs.
High-school students, developers and grid analysts told the Joint Committee on Telecommunications, Utilities and Energy that Massachusetts should accelerate planning and programs for battery energy storage to strengthen reliability and lower costs.
Two students who said they helped develop S.2325 asked the committee to authorize a formal study, led by the Massachusetts Clean Energy Center, to identify technologies and strategies for deploying grid-scale and distributed battery storage, including input from researchers, utilities and private industry. "Battery storage allows us to store excess electricity when generation is high and deliver it when it's most needed," Mariah Eskel said, urging…
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