Experts say a recent FERC decision and falling prices are
creating an opportunity for Northeast states to aggressively adopt energy
storage.
While California and other solar-heavy states are leading on
energy storage targets, experts say New York, New Jersey, Massachusetts and
Maryland could quickly close the gap, with political support.
“Legislators in those states are putting everybody on notice
that ‘We’re going there,’” said Mike Jacobs, a Cambridge, Mass.-based senior
managing analyst with the Union of Concerned Scientists. “It might not be as
lucrative as you want or as scary as you feared, but we’re going there.”
