Illinois investor-owned utility ComEd says greater than 51,000 distributed vitality sources (DER) have been related to grid as of September, together with greater than 49,000 residential rooftop photo voltaic methods and associated vitality storage services.
This determine is a large enhance from 837 rooftop photo voltaic methods related to the ComEd grid in 2016, reflecting an annual progress price of 53%. Greater than 1,300 business and industrial clients have related photo voltaic methods to the ComEd grid, representing an annual progress price of 20%.
Yr up to now, ComEd has obtained a document quantity of practically 15,000 purposes to attach photo voltaic sources, and thru September, practically 11,000 methods have been accomplished, demonstrating the constructive affect of local weather laws in Illinois and rising shopper curiosity in managing vitality payments and decreasing their carbon footprint with photo voltaic vitality.
“We’ve seen a big enhance within the quantity of photo voltaic in our service territory because of the passage of the Future Vitality Jobs Act in 2016, and it’ll proceed to develop with the implementation of the Local weather and Equitable Jobs Act (CEJA) over the subsequent a number of years,” says Scott Vogt, vice chairman of technique and vitality coverage at ComEd. “The clear vitality transition is nicely underneath method, and ComEd is making the required investments to make sure continued reliability as extra clear vitality sources like photo voltaic panels come onto our system.”
Greater than 900 MW of DER have been related to the system, and ComEd expects that can enhance to over 1.9 GW by 2025 and to greater than 3.6 GW by 2030.
ComEd additionally notes that the primary neighborhood photo voltaic venture in Illinois was accomplished in 2019, and there are actually 87 such initiatives in service within the ComEd area, leading to an 18% annual progress price. By the top of this 12 months, ComEd expects to have about 100 neighborhood photo voltaic initiatives on its system serving a complete of 25,000 clients.
