Dive Brief:
The U.S. Department of Energy has selected 14 communities that will receive technical assistance from the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory as part of the agency’s broader Energy Storage for Social Equity initiative (ES4SE).
The initiative, launched last September, is aimed at helping underserved communities use energy storage as a way to build resilience and energy affordability. The DOE selected the 14 communities from more than 60 that applied for assistance.
The effort addresses the issue of bringing some technical help to better prepare fundable projects, Mike Jacobs, a senior energy analyst with the Union of Concerned Scientists, said. “There is a bit of a history of microgrid projects that never happened – and this program, in particular, is designed to think about those [problems] and fix them before…