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Students, developers and advocates press committee to prioritize battery storage and distributed procurement
Summary
Witnesses supported S2325, a study for grid battery storage innovation, and urged policy to include distribution‑connected storage procurement and retail programs to capture local peak‑reduction benefits.
BOSTON — High school students, clean‑energy developers and industry groups told the Joint Committee on Telecommunications, Utilities, and Energy on July 9 that Massachusetts should study and deploy battery storage at scale and create procurement pathways for distributed storage.
“Battery storage allows us to store excess electricity when generation is high and deliver it when it’s most needed,” Mariah Eskel, a North Andover high school student, told the committee in support of S2325, which would authorize a study led by the Massachusetts Clean Energy Center. Eskel and Groton High School student Sofia Flores Cuero said the study should include researchers, utilities and private‑sector…
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