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California’s new rules allow solar and batteries to help out the grid

Utilities tend to treat solar and batteries as threats to their power grids. California’s policy will now tap their flexible power to benefit the grid instead.

By Jeff St. John  . 

Rooftop solar array with a person cleaning the panels in Los Angeles, CA.
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