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Community Storage Gives Co-ops Flexibility
Electric Cooperative Today — February 22, 2016
Energy storage — the holy grail of the electric power industry — that will save consumers money and give electric cooperatives new flexibility might be as close as your water heater. Electric cooperatives across the country are discovering that behind-the-meter storage technologies, particularly grid-interactive water heaters, represent a low-cost path to improved grid management and renewable integration.
Read MoreWater Heaters as Grid Batteries: The Community Storage Opportunity
Utility Dive — 2016
A new initiative from NRECA, NRDC, and PLMA is positioning electric water heaters and other behind-the-meter storage devices as a valuable but underutilized grid resource. The Community Storage Initiative is working to standardize and scale programs that aggregate these distributed resources into a coordinated grid asset.
About the InitiativeThe Hidden Battery: How Electric Water Heaters Could Transform the Grid
Greentech Media — 2015
A report commissioned by three major energy organizations estimates that electric water heaters could provide $1 billion in annual grid services in the PJM and MISO markets alone. The Brattle Group study highlights how demand flexibility from water heaters could reduce the need for costly peaking generation and support renewable energy integration.
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