The complexity of this project stems from many factors including the University’s requirement for price controls on single family housing, structuring the ownership and control of on-site generation the relationship between the renewable energy provider and PG&E (the local utility), the impact of this outcome on WVCP’s investment in energy efficiency, and the rapidly changing environment in rebate. [...] The addition of the advanced energy storage will ensure reliability of the renewable energy production and should eliminate the need for energy during peak hours. [...] When the development generates all of its electricity usage, excess power flow to the grid will serve the distribution portion of the utility grid and neighboring users more efficiently as it reduces the transmission losses in the utility grid. [...] This reduced the financial and regulatory risk of the project and was critical when studying the feasibility of a zero net energy community development. [...] The addition of the advanced energy storage will ensure reliability of the renewable energy production and should eliminate the need for energy during peak hours.
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