{"id":226912,"date":"2026-03-24T01:08:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-24T05:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/24\/explore-how-states-are-advancing-distributed-energy\/"},"modified":"2026-03-24T01:10:13","modified_gmt":"2026-03-24T05:10:13","slug":"explore-how-states-are-advancing-distributed-energy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/24\/explore-how-states-are-advancing-distributed-energy\/","title":{"rendered":"Explore How States Are Advancing Distributed Energy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pew.org\/en\/research-and-analysis\/data-visualizations\/2026\/explore-how-states-are-advancing-distributed-energy\">Explore How States Are Advancing Distributed Energy<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pew.org\/en\/research-and-analysis\/data-visualizations\/2026\/explore-how-states-are-advancing-distributed-energy\">https:\/\/www.pew.org\/en\/research-and-analysis\/data-visualizations\/2026\/explore-how-states-are-advancing-distributed-energy<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-03-24 01:08:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.pew.org\">www.pew.org<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Demand for energy is increasing across the U.S. To meet these growing needs and support the power grid, states are embracing innovative policies to advance distributed energy resources (DERs)\u2014energy generation and storage technologies such as rooftop solar, battery storage, smart appliances, and community solar, which are shared solar projects that give subscribing customers credits on their on their electricity bills. These policies enable broader consumer access to DERs, improve energy affordability and reliability, and provide greater support for communities\u2019 energy needs. <\/p>\n<p>The Pew Charitable Trusts, in partnership with the North Carolina Clean Energy Technology Center, developed the Distributed Energy Resources State Policy Explorer to compile and share DER-related legislation enacted throughout the country from 2021 through 2025. The policies in the explorer showcase the range of approaches available to expand the use of DERs through improved grid planning, community resilience, and addressing barriers to permitting and interconnection\u2014the process for connecting energy generators and batteries to the grid. <\/p>\n<h3 class=\"no_nav\">About the explorer<\/h3>\n<p>\nThe state policy explorer features an interactive U.S. map. It contains more than 400 entries, allowing users to filter results by state; policy area (e.g., building codes, community solar, and investment support); crosscutting topics (e.g., resilience); technology, including energy storage, photovoltaic solar, electric vehicles and charging infrastructure; and demand response.<\/p>\n<p>(According to the\u00a0National Association of State Energy Officials,<br \/>\nPACE\u2014which most commonly stands for \u201cproperty assessed clean energy\u201d\u2014\u201cenables<br \/>\nproperty owners to implement energy improvements on their property and repay<br \/>\nthe costs over an assigned term\u00a0(typically between 15 and 20<br \/>\nyears)\u00a0through an assessment on their property tax bill.\u201d)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pew.org\/en\/research-and-analysis\/data-visualizations\/2026\/explore-how-states-are-advancing-distributed-energy\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Explore How States Are Advancing Distributed Energy https:\/\/www.pew.org\/en\/research-and-analysis\/data-visualizations\/2026\/explore-how-states-are-advancing-distributed-energy Publish Date: 2026-03-24 01:08:00 Source Domain: www.pew.org&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":226913,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.pew.org\/-\/media\/post-launch-images\/2026\/03\/gettyimages554999907jpgmaster\/16x9_m.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[64,129],"class_list":["post-226912","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology","tag-energy","tag-solar"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226912"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=226912"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226912\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":226914,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226912\/revisions\/226914"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/226913"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=226912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=226912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=226912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}