We will present new analyses showing how commercial facilities in Massachusetts (and beyond) can maximize energy savings and resiliency by installing solar + electric storage systems. We will review and explain how to take advantage of a suite of incentives and revenue streams including the SMART solar incentive with storage adder, the new energy efficiency performance incentive, the federal investment tax credit (ITC), demand charge management, and net metering. This will help Massachusetts building owners understand how the incentives and opportunities for solar+storage systems interact, how “value stacking” works (and when it doesn’t), how to optimize system sizing and operations, and how systems pencil out in real economic terms, using real existing commercial buildings as examples. Finally, we will address common barriers in financing, interconnections and metering. This presentation will be discussing the results of two reports scheduled to be published in the fall of 2020.
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Boston 2020 Areas of Focus
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AIA 1.0 LU