What 2025 Holds for Distributed Energy

By Elisa Wood, Energy Changemakers

Promise —and trouble — seem to characterize what’s ahead for distributed energy.

A range of metrics indicates prices will continue to fall for solar, batteries, electric vehicles and other components of the decentralized grid, spurring its continued development. But an apparent White House retreat on clean energy could counter some of the gains.

So how should we approach 2025? What markets will open, what issues will arise, and what grid reformations will become increasingly important?

The Energy Changemakers community took up these questions in a December 4 brainstorming discussion, one of our liveliest yet. Our new feature article, What 2025 Holds for Distributed Energy, shares ideas from the livestream and elsewhere to frame distributed energy progress in 2025.

One of my favorite quotes from the session came from Steve Pullins of ResSET, which points to how radically thinking is changing about onsite energy. Pullins advises that his customers consider the grid as just one of several electricity sources that may be available to them.

"Don't give it [the grid] any special God-like status. It has characteristics that are positive; it has characteristics that are negative,” he says.

Read the full article here.