Commission to Study the Economic, Environmental and Energy Benefits of
Energy Storage to the Maine Electricity Industry
(Resolve 2019, c. 83)

The Commission has completed its work and has issued its final report:

Final Report of the Commission to Study the Economic, Environmental and Energy Benefits of Energy Storage to the Maine Electricity Industry

Commission Meeting Dates: 

• Monday, December 2, 2019 from 1:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m.
  Room 211, Cross Office Building (Energy, Utilities and Technology Committee Room)
  The meeting is to finalize the commission’s report
  
  • Draft Report
  • Member Comments on Draft Report
  • Considerations for Suggested Legislation

   

• Tuesday, November 19, 2019 at 9:00 a.m.
  Room 211, Cross Office Building (Energy, Utilities and Technology Committee Room)
  • Meeting Agenda
  • “Work Session Handout – Member Takeaways and Findings”
  • “Work Session Handout – Member Suggested Recommendations”  
  • Stakeholder Presentations
    • Form Energy
    • Enel X
    • LS Power
    • Two Lights Energy Advisors
• Wednesday, November 6, 2019 at 9:00 a.m.
  Room 211, Cross Office Building (Energy, Utilities and Technology Committee Room)
  • Meeting Agenda
  • “Overview of Energy Storage Technology, Challenges, and Emerging Practices” presentation by Jeremy Twitchell, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
  • “Work Session Handouts” prepared by Office of Policy and Legal Analysis
  • “Maine Public Utilities Commission – Presentation to the Energy Storage Commission”
  • “Efficiency Maine Trust – Innovation Program: Energy Storage Opportunities in Maine”
  • Stakeholder Presentations
    • Competitive Energy Services
    • ENGIE
    • SunRaise
    • Ameresco
    • Summit Natural Gas
    • Velerity  
• Tuesday, October 22, 2019 at 9:00 a.m.
  Room 211, Cross Office Building (Energy, Utilities and Technology Committee Room)
  • Meeting Agenda
  • “Energy Storage Landscape in New England” – presentation by Clean Energy Group/Clean Energy States Alliance
  • “A Review of State-Level Policies on Eelctrical Energy Storage”, Jeremy Twitchell, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, April 2019 

Reports and Reference Materials:

• “State of Charge, Massachusetts Energy Storage Initiative Study” September 2016 (https://www.mass.gov/media/6441/download)
• “The Economics of Battery Energy Storage” Rocky Mountain Institute, September 2015 (https://rmi.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/RMI-TheEconomicsOfBatteryEnergyStorage-FullReport-FINAL.pdf) 
•  “Energy Storage: The New Efficiency” Todd Olinsky-Paul, Clean Energy Group, April 2019 (https://www.cleanegroup.org/wp-content/uploads/energy-storage-the-new-efficiency.pdf)

To subscribe/unsubscribe to the interested parties list for this study:  https://lists.legislature.maine.gov/sympa/subscribe/energy.storage-ip?previous_action=info

Additional Commission Information:

Commission Members

Commission Staff:

Lucia Nixon, OPLA

Deirdre Schneider, OPLA

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