Accounting for ComEd Community Solar Rate Forecasting Idiosyncrasies
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Accounting for ComEd Community Solar Rate Forecasting Idiosyncrasies

Publish Date: April 16, 2025 Written by: Tom Michelman and Sahil Bakht Estimated Reading Time: 5 Minutes Recap. Analyzing and forecasting the ComEd community solar credit rates which are based directly on ComEd’s retail price-to-compare ...
SEA’s <i>Revenue Stack Advantage</i><sup>SM</sup> Approach for Analyzing and Forecasting Distributed Solar Variable Revenue Streams
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SEA’s Revenue Stack AdvantageSM Approach for Analyzing and Forecasting Distributed Solar Variable Revenue Streams

Publish Date: February 25, 2025 Written by: Tom Michelman, Vice President & Senior Director, Distributed Energy Resources Practice Lead Estimated Reading Time: 3 Minutes We describe our distributed solar (e.g., community solar, virtual net metering) ...
Maine NEB: Generator Assets vs. Load Reducers: What’s Best for Maine Ratepayers?
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Maine NEB: Generator Assets vs. Load Reducers: What’s Best for Maine Ratepayers?

Publish Date: February 5, 2025 Written by: Jacob Nichols, Analyst Estimated Reading Time: 7 Minutes Recently, Sustainable Energy Advantage LLC (SEA), on behalf of the Maine Public Utilities Commission (the Commission), analyzed Maine’s Net Energy ...
Looking Back and Looking Ahead: CPS in 2024 and What’s Next for 2025
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Looking Back and Looking Ahead: CPS in 2024 and What’s Next for 2025

Late addition: the article below was drafted before President Trump’s return to office. Our preliminary review of the initial set of executive actions suggests that, to date, actions would have a limited direct impact on ...
How Will Prioritizing Viability and Maturity in Procurement Impact Prices and Costs?
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How Will Prioritizing Viability and Maturity in Procurement Impact Prices and Costs?

Part 3 of SEA's New York REMO Clean Energy Standard Biennial Blog Series Publish Date: December 4, 2024 Written by: Sahil Bakht, Senior Analyst; and Po-Yu Yuen, Director Estimated Reading Time: 12 Minutes ...
Can New York successfully boost land-based wind?
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Can New York successfully boost land-based wind?

Part 2 of SEA’s New York REMO Clean Energy Standard Biennial Blog Series Publish Date: November 26, 2024 Written by: Eric Pinsker-Smith, Senior Analyst; and Po-Yu Yuen, Director Estimated Reading Time: 10 Minutes ...
Peak Potential: Unpacking Recent CPS Developments
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Peak Potential: Unpacking Recent CPS Developments

This is the tenth blog in our “2024 Clean Peak Standard” blog series. Read the first nine blogs here. This month’s sweeping regulatory and legislative developments have unlocked new opportunities and raised critical questions for ...
What will it take for New York’s Tier 1 large-scale renewables to deliver on CES Biennial Review timeline? 
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What will it take for New York’s Tier 1 large-scale renewables to deliver on CES Biennial Review timeline? 

Part 1 of SEA's New York REMO Clean Energy Standard Biennial Blog Series Publish Date: November 19, 2024 Written by: Po-Yu Yuen, Director; and Chinmayee Atre, Consultant Estimated Reading Time: 10 Minutes This post is ...
The CPS Excitement Continues: Legislature Makes Progress on Storage Solicitations
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The CPS Excitement Continues: Legislature Makes Progress on Storage Solicitations

This is the ninth blog in our “2024 Clean Peak Standard” blog series. Read the first eight blogs here. On October 21, 2024, the Massachusetts General Court Conference Committee negotiating the energy omnibus legislation released ...
Third Round of CPS Emergency Regulations Increases and Fixes ACP Rate
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Third Round of CPS Emergency Regulations Increases and Fixes ACP Rate

This is the eighth blog in our “2024 Clean Peak Standard” blog series. Read the first seven blogs here. On October 11, 2024, the Massachusetts Department of Energy Resources (DOER) announced several important updates to ...