How New York Is Building the Renewable Energy Grid of the Future
(WorldNews Environment)

This is a story of ripping up old incentives that encouraged selling as much electricity as possible, then unleashing the entrepreneurs. MAY 25, 2017 The energy start-up Opus One is helping New York understand how power from distributed resources interact with traditional power flows. Credit: Opus One New York State is making a $5 billion bet that by making its power cleaner, it can become a magnet for the clean energy jobs of the future. Its efforts stand out among the many states racing to integrate more renewables into their power grids-such as Massachusetts, Hawaii and California-not necessarily for the technology but because of what`s happening behind the scenes: New York has launched a...