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Resilient Solar: New York and San Francisco Study Solar With Batteries as a Resiliency Solution

April 24, 2018

While Superstorm Sandy made energy resilience a priority, the devastating outage on Puerto Rico has taken it to a whole new level.

Puerto Rico is only now approaching full power seven months after Hurricane Maria decimated the island, knocking out about two-thirds of transmission and distribution systems. And earlier this month, an accident knocked out power to nearly all the island’s residents once again.

Sandy and Maria have spurred communities across the country to look more closely at how they treat electricity in their emergency management preparations. Many are looking at new approaches, usingsolarand battery storage technologies to provide greater reliability and economics than diesel generators.

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