Xcel Owns the Batteries, You Pay the Bill — Episode 269 of Local Energy Rules

About this episode

The episode discusses expectations from a new utility-owned distributed storage program announced over 18 months ago.

What can we expect from a new utility-owned distributed storage program that made headlines when it was announced over 18 months ago Show page available: https://ilsr.org/article/energy-democracy/distributed-storage-ler269/ Listen to all of our Local Energy Rules podcast episodes at our site: https://ilsr.org/energy/local-energy-rules-podcast/ Don't forget to subscribe, share with your friends, leave a recommendation on our podcast feeds, and join the conversation online using the #LocalEnergyRules hashtag!

Topics covered

• energy
• utilities
• storage
• policy
• infrastructure

Keywords

• utility-owned
• distributed storage
• Xcel
• energy democracy
• program announcement

Mentioned in this episode

Products: batteries

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