Shifting to Carbon Free

In 2019, Flow Energy contracted to began developing RISS, a solar/storage project to ultimately power 15,000 new homes — driven by Title 24, California’s legislation requiring solar energy on new homes. The opportunity to spearhead powering what might be the world’s largest net-zero community shifted my focus back to solar and decarbonization.

Rooftop solar may seem like a panacea for low-cost, clean energy but it creates problems at scale. Title 24 allows utilities an alternative— under certain circumstances and with CEC approval — to instead provide centralized community solar. We hoped for application submission, presentation and approval before year-end, but the newness of legislation, prickly storage economics, and the methodical pace of working with regulators, we pushed into 2020, soft-circling the March CEC meeting.

The rest, as they say, is history.

Now emerging from Covid, with the USA also newly focused on decarbonization, I’m back to write about it.