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Senate renews energy storage grant program to spur community-scale battery projects
Summary
Senators advanced SB78, a grant program through the Office of Economic Development to support energy storage demonstrations and startup capital; sponsor highlighted a solar-plus-battery residential development as an example and said the $1.5 million grand prize requested last year was removed.
Senate Bill 78 would create an Energy Storage Innovation Research and Grant Program through the Office of Economic Development to incentivize capital and pilot projects for energy storage and distributed generation.
Sponsor Senator Fillmore told colleagues the measure mirrors a bill from the prior session but without a previously proposed $1.5 million…
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