For any communities looking for resources on developming a community solar or microgrid program, I recommend checking out NREL's C2C program. Their C2C program provides communities with expertise and tools to achieve clean energy goals across a range of technologies through the 3-month expert match offering and the multiyear in-depth partnership offering. Here's a recent announcement from...

So true. I think personal security from climate and other disasters is going to be more of a concern for everyone long before anyone needs to worry about the world ending from climate change.

Thebest solutions that we've found is developing close relationships with suppliers/ manufacturers and putting good contracts in place. That article highlighted a real issue, but I think a lot of people are actually successfully navigating the delays through careful planning.

Non-utility parties have until Nov 9th to submit tariff proposals for multi-property microgrids to the CPUC for approval. Time will tell if this is really a success in helping developers overcome the onerous restrictions on becoming a regulated utility due to the over-the-fence rule. I remain skeptical plus the almost impossible to meet deadline is ridiculous. Here's a link to the CPUC...